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Taiwanese Financial Trading Sector Suffers Cyber Attack by Chinese Hackers

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Hackers aligned with objectives of the Chinese government have been linked to an organized supply chain attack on Taiwan’s financial sector. These attacks first commenced at the end of November 2021, with the intrusions attributed to a threat actor tracked as APT10, also known as Stone Panda, the MenuPass group and Bronze Riverside, and known […]

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Interpol Arrests 11 Members of a Nigerian Cybercrime Gang

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11 members of a Nigerian cybercrime gang known for perpetrating business email compromise (BEC) have been apprehended by a coordinated law enforcement operation. This comes after a ten-day investigation dubbed Operation Falcon II undertaken by the Interpol along with participation from the Nigeria Police Force’s Cybercrime Police Unit in December 2021. Group-IB and Palo Alto

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Europol Shuts Down VPNLab Popularly Used By Cybercriminals

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The popular VPNLab.net used by malicious actors to deploy ransomware has been taken offline following a coordinated law enforcement operation. Europol stated that it took action against the misuse of the VPN service by grounding 15 of its servers on January 17 thus rendering it inoperable as part of a disruptive action that took place

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Chinese Hackers Target Academic Institution Using Log4Shell Exploit

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Aquatic Panda a China-based targeted intrusion has been observed leveraging critical flaws in the Apache Log4j logging library as an access vector to perform various post-exploitation operations, including reconnaissance and credential harvesting on targeted systems. Crowdstrike a cybersecurity firm stated that the infiltration which was foiled was aimed at an unnamed “large academic institution”. The

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Malicious Web Domain Used By Chinese Hackers Seized by Microsoft

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Microsoft has announced the seizure of 42 domains used by Nickel a China-based cyber espionage group which has its sights on organizations in the U.S. and 28 other countries. Nickel has targeted organizations in both private and public sectors including diplomatic organizations and ministries of foreign affairs in North America, Central America, South America, Europe

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Credential Theft Campaign Linked To North Korean Hackers

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Enterprise security firm Proofpoint has linked TA406, a North Korean threat actor to a wave of credential theft campaigns targeting research, education and government with two of the attacks aimed at distributing malware which could be used for intelligence gathering. TA406 also known as Kimsuky came into operations as early as 2012 emerging as one

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RedCurl The Corporate Espionage Hacker Group Returns

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After a seven month hiatus, the Russian-speaking cyber-espionage group RedCurl returns. With their arrival on the scene, the group has targeted 4 companies including a large retail store in Russia as well as improving on its toolset in an attempt to thwart analysis and antivirus detection. The group became active in November 2018 with attacks

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Microsoft Discloses 6 Iranian Hacking Groups Turning to Ransomware

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There has been an increase in the adoption of ransomware as a means of generating revenue for nation-state operators with affiliations with Iran. So far, six threat actors with the West Asian country have been discovered deploying ransomware to achieve their strategic objectives, researchers from Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) revealed, adding that the ransomware

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Researchers Discover “Void Balaur” the Hacker-for-Hire Group Active since 2015

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Researchers have discovered a hacker-for-hire group called “Void Balaur” which has been linked to strings of cyberespionage and data theft activities targeting politicians, human right activists and government officials since 2015 for financial gain. The group was only recently unmasked when advertisements of its services was cited in a Russia-speaking underground forum dating all the

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