A Russian-speaking cybercrime gang known as Crazy Evil has been linked to over 10 active social media scams that leverage a wide range of tailored lures to deceive victims and trick them into installing malware such as StealC, Atomic macOS…
Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Surveillance Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday said it disrupted a campaign that involved the use of spyware to target journalists and civil society members. The campaign, which targeted around 90 members, involved the use of spyware…
Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Fraud Prevention U.S. and Dutch law enforcement agencies have announced that they have dismantled 39 domains and their associated servers as part of efforts to disrupt a network of online marketplaces originating from Pakistan. The…
Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Zero-Day BeyondTrust has revealed it completed an investigation into a recent cybersecurity incident that targeted some of the company’s Remote Support SaaS instances by making use of a compromised API key. The company said the…
Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalvertising / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malvertising campaign that’s targeting Microsoft advertisers with bogus Google ads that aim to take them to phishing pages that are capable of harvesting their credentials. “These malicious ads,…
Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in 2024 and banned more than 158,000 bad developer accounts that attempted to publish such harmful apps. The tech giant also…
Italy’s data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek’s service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users’ personal data. The development comes days after the authority, the Garante, sent a series…
Threat actors are increasing their focus on exploiting public-facing applications to achieve initial access, according to Cisco Talos’ Incident Response Trends in Q4 2024 report. The exploitation of public-facing applications was the most common method of gaining initial access in…
Jan 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Healthcare The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts about the presence of hidden functionality in Contec CMS8000 patient monitors and Epsimed MN-120 patient monitors.…
Tata Technologies Limited, a subsidiary of the Indian conglomerate Tata Group, has been the victim of a ransomware attack affecting some of its IT assets. The publicly traded company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) of the attack in a…
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