Two Estonian nationals are facing up to 20 years behind bars after pleading guilty to running a huge cryptocurrency fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars. Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, both 40, made $577m in sales from…
Feb 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Data Protection South Korea has formally suspended new downloads of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot DeepSeek in the country until the service makes changes to its mobile apps to comply with data protection regulations.…
Threat actors are using Telegram as command and control (C2) channel for a new Golang malware variant, according to a Netskope report. The malware, believed to be of Russian origin, acts like a backdoor once executed. Although it is still…
Feb 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Threats / Cybersecurity Welcome to this week’s Cybersecurity News Recap. Discover how cyber attackers are using clever tricks like fake codes and sneaky emails to gain access to sensitive data. We cover everything from device code…
Palo Alto Networks and SonicWall customers are being advised to patch their products, after it emerged that threat actors are actively exploiting vulnerabilities in both. SonicWall first detailed authentication bypass bug CVE-2024-53704 in a security update on January 7. It…
Feb 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Technology Google is working on a new security feature for Android that blocks device owners from changing sensitive settings when a phone call is in progress. Specifically, the in-call anti-scammer protections include preventing users…
Feb 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / DevOps Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new type of name confusion attack called whoAMI that allows anyone who publishes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a specific name to gain code execution within the Amazon…
Feb 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Cryptocurrency The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been linked to a previously undocumented JavaScript implant named Marstech1 as part of limited targeted attacks against developers. The active operation has…
The threat actors behind the RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme have been observed leveraging now-patched security flaws in Microsoft Active Directory and the Netlogon protocol to escalate privileges and gain unauthorized access to a victim network’s domain controller as part of…
Multiple Russian nation-state actors are targeting sensitive Microsoft 365 accounts via device code authentication phishing, a new analysis by Volexity has revealed. The firm first observed this activity towards the end of January 2025, when the M365 account of one…
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