Mekotio banking trojan operators have resurfaced as a noticeable shift in its infection flow has been made in order to stay under the radar and evade security software, while it stages nearly 100 attacks over the last 3 months. The modular attack is one of its main characteristics as it gives attackers the ability to […]
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Attackers are leveraging on 151 malicious Android apps with 10.5 million downloads in order to rope users into premium subscription service without consent and knowledge. This attack has been dubbed “UltimaSMS” and is believed to have commenced in May 2021. This attacker took advantage of apps covering wide range of categories including keyboards, QR code
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In a bid to highlight how unsecure Wi-Fi passwords could be, cybersecurity researchers have hacked over 70% of Wi-Fi network from a sample of 5,000 with relative ease in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. This activity was conducted by CyberArk security researcher Ido Hoorvitch using a Wi-Fi sniffing tool costing $50 to collect 5,000
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An extensive series of credential phishing campaigns has been discovered and disclosed by Microsoft on Thursday. This campaign is taking advantage of custom phishing kit that stitched together components from at least five different circulated ones with the aim of siphoning user login information. This discovery was first made in December 2020 and dubbed the
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New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard has suffered an attack on his iPhone which is believed to have been orchestrated with the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware tool over a three-year period between June 2018 to June 2021. The targeting is said to have taken place while he was reporting on Saudi Arabia and writing a
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A hacker group is now targeting Afghanistan and India as they exploit a now-patched, 20-year-old flaw affecting Microsoft Office to deploy remote access trojans (RATs) that allow the adversary gain complete control over the compromised endpoints. This has been attributed to a “lone wolf” threat actor operating a Lahore-based fake IT company called Bunse Technologies
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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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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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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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