As of 21st December, 2023 at 7:00am Twitter is experiencing a widespread outage, leaving millions of users unable to access the platform. Users report issues with viewing tweets, timelines, and profiles. The outage appears to be affecting users globally, with reports pouring in from various regions. Twitter Support has not acknowledged the issue as everything […]
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The inner workings of the ransomware operation headed by Russian national Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, who was charged by the US government earlier this year for his claimed involvement in thousands of attacks worldwide, have been revealed by cybersecurity researchers. According to reports, Matveev—who goes by the identities Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, Uhodiransomwar, Orange, and waza—lives in
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Over the course of a six-month worldwide police investigation known as HAECHI-IV, approximately 3,500 people have been arrested and $300 million worth of assets have been seized from 34 different nations. Targeting a variety of financial crimes, including voice phishing, romance scams, online extortion, investment fraud, money laundering connected to illicit online gambling, business email
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As 2023 comes to an end and the holidays approach, Offensive Security publishes Kali Linux 2023.4, the most recent version of the well-liked operating system. Offensive Security’s Kali Linux, an operating system based on Debian, is devoted to penetration testing and ethical hacking. In this field, it’s a cutting-edge, open-source, free operating system. Every year,
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Google is alerting users to the existence of several threat actors that are disseminating a proof-of-concept (PoC) attack that uses its Calendar service to host command-and-control devices. Using a Gmail account, the application, known as Google Calendar RAT (GCR), uses Google Calendar Events for C2. It was initially released in June 2023 on GitHub. Developer
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The threat actor with ties to Pakistan, SideCopy, has been seen using the WinRAR security flaw in its assaults against Indian government institutions to spread trojans that provide remote access, including DRat, Ares RAT, and AllaKore RAT. According to enterprise security firm SEQRITE, the campaign is multi-platform and includes attacks aimed at infiltrating Linux computers
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As part of its ongoing Operation Dream Job effort, the North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group (also known as Hidden Cobra or TEMP.Hermit) has been seen employing trojanized Virtual Network Computing (VNC) programmes as enticements to target nuclear engineers and the defence sector. In its APT trends report for Q3 2023, Kaspersky stated that “the threat actor
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Between February and September 2023, an undisclosed Middle Eastern country was the focus of an eight-month campaign by the Iran-linked threat actor OilRig. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, a division of Broadcom, claimed in a report published with The Hacker News that the attack resulted in the loss of information and passwords and, in one
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The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) charged two founders of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer business with laundering more than $1 billion in illegal proceeds in an indictment that was unsealed on Wednesday. Roman Storm and Roman Semenov have both been accused of conspiring to commit money laundering, to violate sanctions, and to run an unregistered
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning about online thieves who pose as non-fungible token (NFT) creators in order to steal cryptocurrencies and other digital assets from unwary consumers. In these fraudulent schemes, fraudsters frequently use deceptive advertising strategies to generate a sense of urgency to pull them off, either by
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