Category Security

The National Disaster Agency, a subsidiary of the LockBit ransomware group, posted the name of the world’s largest chip manufacturer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), on LockBit’s dark web leak site on June 29, 2023. Did. The attacker demanded a…

June 30, 2023Ravi LakshmananPrivacy / Technology Meta’s WhatsApp has rolled out an update to its proxy functionality to give you more flexibility in the types of content you can share in your conversations. This includes the ability to send and…

Amazon has filed a flurry of lawsuits aimed at tackling the deep-seated problem of fraudulent customer reviews on its platform. The e-commerce giant said this week it had filed a lawsuit over the conduct of four alleged fake review brokers.…

June 30, 2023Ravi LakshmananVulnerability / Software Security MITER has released its annual list of the top 25 “Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses” for 2023. “These weaknesses lead to serious software vulnerabilities,” said the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). “Attackers…

It turns out that developers using the hugely popular npm registry to download JavaScript code can be unknowingly exposed to a variety of cyberthreats due to their inability to check package metadata. Did. GitHub owns the world’s largest software registry,…

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has released details of a wide range of alleged medical fraud cases that have cost taxpayers billions of dollars. The first, said to be the largest prosecution of advanced telemedicine programs to date, resulted…

Charming Kitten, a threat actor believed to be operating from Iran, has been found to be evolving the PowerStar backdoor malware alongside advanced spear-phishing techniques. Cybersecurity firm Volexity discussed the findings in an advisory published Wednesday, noting that the new…

June 29, 2023Ravi LakshmananMobile Security/Privacy Android-based phone monitoring app Let Me Spy has revealed a security breach that allowed unauthorized third parties to steal sensitive data related to thousands of Android users. In a statement on its website, LetMeSpy said,…

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have published a new framework called Metior designed to evaluate the effectiveness of various cybersecurity obfuscation schemes. According to a blog post published Wednesday, the framework quantifies the information an attacker might…

June 29, 2023Ravi Lakshmanan Called the Iranian National Assistance Organization muddy water This is believed to be due to a previously unseen framework called the Command and Control (C2) Framework. Phoney C2 It has been used by actors since 2021.…