Cyber Attacks

Sidewalk Malware Attacks Linked to Grayfly Chinese Hacker Group

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A previously undocumented backdoor that was recently found targeting an unnamed computer retail company based in the U.S. has been linked to a longstanding Chinese espionage operation dubbed Grayfly. In late August, Slovakian cybersecurity firm ESET disclosed details of an implant called SideWalk, which is designed to load arbitrary plugins sent from an attacker-controlled server, […]

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WIndows Users are Currently Targets of New 0-Day Attack Exploiting Microsoft Office Documents

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An actively exploited zero-day flaw Tracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been discovered to be impacting Internet Explorer. The remote code execution flaw is rooted in MSHTML (aka Trident), a proprietary browser engine for the now-discontinued Internet Explorer and which is used in Office to render web content inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.

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British Payroll Firm suffers Cyber-Attack

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Contractors have been left unpaid after a “sophisticated” cyber-attack forced British payroll company shut down. This was confirmed on September 24 by Giant Group that it had taken its network and its fully integrated IT infrastructure, phone and email systems offline last Wednesday after detecting suspicious activity In a statement published on its website September

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