Category Security

February 14, 2023Rabbi Lakshmanancyber threat intelligence Microsoft announced Monday that China-based cyber espionage actors have been implicated in a series of attacks targeting diplomatic offices in South America. Tech giant’s security intelligence team tracks clusters under emerging moniker DEV-0147, Description…

The licensed cryptocurrency mixer was reopened under a different name to avoid U.S. scrutiny and was later used to clean up North Korea’s digital currency, according to Elliptic. The US-sanctioned Blender cryptomixer has been renamed Sinbad after helping Pyongyang launder…

One thing is clear. “business value” The amount of data continues to grow and has become an organization’s primary intellectual property. From a cyber risk perspective, attacks on data are the most prominent threats to organizations. Regulators, cyber insurers, and…

spanish national police worked with the U.S. Secret Service to dismantle a cybercriminal group that stole millions of dollars from U.S. citizens and businesses. Nine suspected members of the group were arrested. In Madrid he has eight and in Miami…

February 14, 2023Rabbi LakshmananCryptocurrency / Software Security Malicious actors have published over 451 unique Python packages in the official Python Package Index (PyPI) repository in an attempt to infect developer systems with clipper malware. Software supply chain security firm Phylum,…

A ransomware attack once again put the personal information of innocent parties at risk after a data breach potentially exposed the medical records of more than 3 million people. California-based Regal Medical Group announced in December 2022 that malicious hackers…

The DDoS mitigation vendor said its customers were hit by a wave of massive attacks over the weekend designed to flood a website with HTTP requests. In a blog post, Cloudflare explained that it was forced to mitigate dozens of…

February 14, 2023Rabbi Lakshmanan Web infrastructure company Cloudflare announced Monday that it had thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 71 million requests per second (RPS). “Most of the attacks peaked in the ballpark of…

February 14, 2023Rabbi LakshmananDevice security / zero-day Apple on Monday rolled out security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari to address a zero-day vulnerability it said was being actively exploited in the wild. tracked as CVE-2023-23529This issue is related…

cyber security company Group IB revealed that emails with malicious attachments were successfully detected and blocked by Tonto Team in June 2022. In an advisory released today, the company disclosed that threat actors used phishing emails to target malicious Microsoft…