A malicious campaign impersonating an American financial advisor has been spotted targeting hundreds of individuals in West Africa. Recently discovered by cybersecurity experts domain toolsthe “pig slaughter” operation uses a complex network of social engineering techniques to trick victims. Describe…
January 27, 2023Rabbi LakshmananThreat Response / Cyber Crime Cybersecurity researchers have discovered the real-world identity of the threat actor behind it golden chicken Malware-as-a-service using the online persona “badbullzvenom”. eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) “found multiple mentions of the badbullzvenom…
Microsoft urges administrators of on-premises Exchange servers to keep them patched and up-to-date, warning that attackers “never go away.” In a blog post yesterday, the tech giant Exchange team advised customers to install the latest available Cumulative Updates (CUs) and…
January 27, 2023Rabbi LakshmananEndpoint Security/Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a PlugX sample that fraudulently infects attached removable USB media devices and spreads malware to additional systems. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Mike Harbison and Jen Miller-Osborn said: “Users don’t…
Nearly a quarter (22%) of IT leaders believe cybersecurity is an essential foundation of their digital transformation, according to a new Telstra survey. To better understand its strategic challenges, the telecommunications giant surveyed 300 UK IT and security decision makers…
Global law enforcement agencies celebrated this week after revealing a coordinated operation to thwart a variant of Hive ransomware. According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), the Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) guise has targeted more than 1,500 victims in…
January 26, 2023Rabbi Lakshmanan A new study traces the activities of a politically motivated hacktivist group known as the Moses Staff to abraham’s ax Coming in November 2022. In a report shared with The Hacker News, the Secureworks Counter Threat…
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), the volume of publicly reported data breaches and breaches remained near record levels in 2022, but according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) Consumers and businesses are frustrated by the lack…
January 26, 2023Rabbi LakshmananEncryption / Windows Security Proof-of-concept (Poc) code released for currently patched high-severity security flaw in Windows CryptoAPI reported to Microsoft last year by US National Security Agency (NSA) and UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) it was…
Zacks Investment Research has confirmed that hacker attacks in 2021-2022 may have compromised data belonging to: 820,000 customers. The company announced in a notice letter to users earlier this week that it discovered the breach on December 28, 2022. “Zacks…
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