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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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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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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OpenSea has just patched a critical vulnerability that could have been abused by malicious actors to drain cryptocurrency funds from a victim by sending a specially-crafted token in the form of a malicious NFT. When this malicious NFT is clicked, it results in a scenario whereby rogue transactions can be facilitated through a third-party wallet
Microsofts Azure cloud platform suffered a 2.4 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DD0S) attack in the last week of August however this was mitigated. The attack targeted an unnamed customer in Europe surpassing a 2.3 Tbps attack stopped by Amazon Web Services in February 2020. Amir Dahan, senior program manager of Azure Network has said in a
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Ukrainian law enforcement authorities have arrested a hacker who created and managed a “powerful botnet” consisting of nothing less than 100,000 enslaved devices that was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and spam attacks on behalf of paid customers. The suspect’s residence was raided and computer equipment as evidence of illegal activity was seized.
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