Hackers who seized control of the official Instagram account of McDonald’s claim that they managed to steal US $700,000 from unsuspecting investors by promoting a fake cryptocurrency. Earlier this month, hackers promoted a worthless cryptocurrency token they dubbed “GRIMACE” to…
Aug 29, 2024Ravie LakshmananOnline Crime / Privacy French prosecutors on Wednesday formally charged CEO Pavel Durov with facilitating a litany of criminal activity on the popular messaging platform and placed him under formal investigation following his arrest Saturday. Russian-born Durov,…
Ransomware attacks on US schools and colleges have surged in recent years, with 491 incidents recorded since 2018, impacting over 8000 educational institutions and exposing 6.7 million individual records. According to a new report by Comparitech, estimated costs exceed $2.5b…
Peach Sandstorm, an allegedly Iran-sponsored hacking group, has developed a new custom multi-stage backdoor to infiltrate its targets in cyber espionage operations. Microsoft Threat Intelligence, which detected the new malware, called it Tickler. Tickler has been used in attacks against…
Aug 28, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Security Fortra has addressed a critical security flaw impacting FileCatalyst Workflow that could be abused by a remote attacker to gain administrative access. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6633, carries a CVSS score of 9.8,…
LummaC2, an infostealer malware actively exploiting PowerShell commands, has resurfaced to infiltrate and exfiltrate sensitive data. Discovered by cybersecurity researchers at Ontinue, the malware’s latest variant demonstrates sophisticated tactics that pose significant risks to targeted systems. LummaC2, initially identified in…
Aug 28, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Vulnerability A South Korea-aligned cyber espionage has been linked to the zero-day exploitation of a now-patched critical remote code execution flaw in Kingsoft WPS Office to deploy a bespoke backdoor dubbed SpyGlace. The activity…
ESET has revealed a new cyber-espionage campaign linked to a South Korean APT in which a novel remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in WPS Office for Windows was exploited to deploy a custom backdoor. Traced to the Seoul-aligned APT-C-60 group,…
The threat actors behind the BlackByte ransomware group have been observed likely exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting VMware ESXi hypervisors, while also leveraging various vulnerable drivers to disarm security protections. “The BlackByte ransomware group continues to leverage tactics,…
A phishing exercise conducted by the IT department of the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) has backfired, after causing unnecessary panic amongst students and staff. On the morning of Sunday August 18 2024, an email was sent out by…
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