October 2021

Hackers are Hijacking Youtube Accounts with Stolen Browser Cookies

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Since late 2019, hackers have taken to hijacking channels of Youtube creators, luring them with bogus collaboration opportunities and eventually using their accounts to broadcast cryptocurrency scams or sell the accounts to the highest bidder. A new report by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has stated that it disrupted financially motivated phishing campaigns targeting the […]

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U.S. Government Bans Sale of Hacking Softwares To Certain Countries

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In a bid to oppose the misuse of technology to abuse human rights or conduct malicious cyber activities, the U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday announced that it would hence forth bar the sales of hacking software and equipment to authoritarian regimes. This rule will go into effect in 90 days and will forbid the export,

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Squirrel Engine Bug Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Break Out Of Sandbox Restrictions

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An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Squirrel programming language has been discovered by researchers on August 20,2021. This can be abused by attackers to break out of the sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary code within a SquirrelVM giving a malicious actor complete access to the underlying machine. Tracked as CVE-2021-41556, occurs when a game library

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FlawedGrace New Variant Is Spreading Through Mass Email Campaigns

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Cybersecurity researchers have on Tuesday discovered a mass volume of email attack notably targeting Germany and Australia. This campaign has beeen tied to the TA505 which is the name assigned to the financially motivated threat group that’s been in active cybercrime business since at least 2014 and is behind the infamous Dridex anking trojan as

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The Operators Of TrickBot Now Expanding Malware Distribution Channel

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The operators of the TrickBot Malware have resurfaced with new tricks seeking to increase its foothold by expanding its distribution channels, ultimately leading to the deployment of ransomware such as Conti. The threat actor, tracked as Wizard Spider has been discovered to be in partnership with other cybercrime gangs such as Hive0105, Hive0106 and Hive0107

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Google Is Currently Tracking 270 State-Sponsored Hackers

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More than 270 government-backed threat actors from over 50 countries has been put on a watch list by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Approximately 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attempts to customers since the start of 2021. This brings about a 33% rise from 2020 as the spike stems from “blocking an unusually

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Unmasking Of Domain Name Registrants Now Part Of EU Proposals

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The EU in its “NIS2” legislation making its way through the European Parliament has made provisions to ban anonymous registration of domain data in a bid to boost security and anti-piracy efforts. It seeks to ensure the availability of accurate, verified and complete domain name registration data by imposing it on TLD registries and entities

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University of Sunderland Is The Latest Victim Of A Suspected Cyber Attack

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University of Sunderland on the 12th day of October, 2021 suffered a series of downtime on its IT systems, telephone lines and websites. This was revealed on its twitter page and have stated that it “has all the hallmarks of a cyber-attack.” The Sunderland Echo a local newspaper, reported that staff members were encountering difficulties

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New 0-day Patches in Windows Now Available Update Your PCs

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Security patches to contain a total of 71 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and other software has been released. This patch would also fix an actively exploited privilege escalation vulnerability that could be exploited in conjunction with remote code execution bugs to take over vulnerable systems. The security flaws have been rated with two being Critical,

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