REvil the ransomware gang has been taken down by an active multi-country law enforcement operation. This resulted in a hacking and taking offline for a second time, all its services and ecosystem as a whole. The Reuters has stated that multiple private-sector cyber experts worked with the U.S. government noting that the May cyber attack […]
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OSINT is intelligence “drawn from publicly available material”, according to the CIA. Most intelligence experts extend that definition to mean information intended for public consumption. The CIA says that OSINT includes information gathered from the internet, mass media, specialist journals and research, photos, and geospatial information. Most of these sources were used in the Bellingcat
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Ever wondered how the bad guys get to takeover your social media accounts in the blink of an eye? This tutorial would show you just how it is done and how to avoid such happening to yourself. Disclaimer – Whatever is shared on this channel and website is aimed at enlightening individuals and the
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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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