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UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms

November 29, 2023

Via: The Register

The UK government plans to introduce new legislation to ban SIM farms, which it views as a widely abused means for carrying out cyber fraud. Upon introduction of the criminal offense, violating it will incur a penalty of an unlimited […]


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Royal Mail’s recovery from ransomware attack will cost business at least $12M

November 16, 2023

Via: The Register

Royal Mail’s parent International Distributions Services has revealed for the first time the infrastructure costs associated with its January ransomware attack. LockBit’s attack has driven costs up across various areas of the Brit business, but improvements to the corporation’s Heathrow […]


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BlackCat plays with malvertising traps to lure corporate victims

November 16, 2023

Via: The Register

Affiliates of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service operation are turning to malvertising campaigns to establish an initial foothold in their victims’ systems. Paid adverts for popular business software such as Slack and Cisco AnyConnect are being used to lure corporate victims into […]


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LockBit ransomware gang leaked data stolen from Boeing

November 13, 2023

Via: Security Affairs

The Boeing Company, commonly known as Boeing, is one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers and defense contractors. In 2022, Boeing recorded $66.61 billion in sales, the aerospace giant has 156,000 (2022). At the end of October, the Lockbit ransomware […]


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SysAid zero-day exploited by Clop ransomware group

November 10, 2023

Via: Security Affairs

Microsoft reported the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-47246, in the SysAid IT support software in limited attacks. The IT giant linked the attacks to the Clop ransomware gang (aka Lace Tempest). The company reported the flaw to […]


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After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website

November 10, 2023

Via: Security Affairs

The hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down the website of Cloudflare. Cloudflare confirmed that a DDoS attack took down its website for a few minutes and ponited out that it […]


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Downfall fallout: Intel knew AVX chips were insecure and did nothing, lawsuit claims

November 9, 2023

Via: The Register

Intel has been sued by a handful of PC buyers who claim the x86 goliath failed to act when informed five years ago about faulty chip instructions that allowed the recent Downfall vulnerability, and during that period sold billions of […]


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Fresh find shines new light on North Korea’s latest macOS malware

November 7, 2023

Via: The Register

A brand-new macOS malware strain from North Korean state-sponsored hackers has been spotted in the wild. Dubbed “ObjCShellz” by researchers at Jamf, the malware is thought to be a later-stage payload in the multi-stage RustBucket campaign targeting organizations in the […]


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Canada goosed as attackers shutter hospitals and China deepfakes its politicians

October 25, 2023

Via: The Register

Cybercriminals have Canada in the crosshairs, with five Ontario hospitals and a fresh Spamoflague disinformation campaign targeting “dozens” of Canadian government officials, including the PM. The cyberattack against five southern Ontario hospitals has shut down IT systems, forcing them to […]


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North Korean hackers are targeting software developers and impersonating IT workers

October 20, 2023

Via: Help Net Security

State-sponsored North Korean hackers have significantly intensified their focus on the IT sector in recent years, by infiltrating firms developing software and companies lookind for IT workers. North Korean hackers targeting developers Microsoft has outlined on Wednesday how North Korea-backed […]


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CIA exposed to potential intelligence interception due to X’s URL bug

October 18, 2023

Via: The Register

An ethical hacker has exploited a bug in the way X truncates URLs to take over a CIA Telegram channel used to receive intelligence. Kevin McSheehan, who uses the online handle “Pad,” spotted the issue after hovering over the link […]


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Beware – that Google Chrome update alert might actually just be malware

October 18, 2023

Via: TechRadar

There are multiple fake “update your browser” campaigns active right now that are aiming to trick people into installing all kinds of malware on their devices. A new report from Proofpoint observed at least four different campaigns, delivering different malicious […]


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Hacked Skype accounts are being used to spread malware

October 16, 2023

Via: TechRadar

Hackers are reportedly abusing compromised Skype accounts in an attempt to distribute the DarkGate malware. In a new report, Trend Micro researchers claimed multiple Skype accounts had been compromised and then used to share a VBA loader script attachment. The […]


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HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Zero-Day Largest DDoS Attack in Internet History

October 12, 2023

Via: SecureWorld

In recent months, the cybersecurity world has been shaken by the revelation of a sophisticated and unprecedented cyber threat: the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Zero-Day vulnerability. This exploit, tracked as CVE-2023-44487, enabled cybercriminals to orchestrate what has been dubbed the largest […]


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CISA Warns of Attacks Exploiting Adobe Acrobat Vulnerability 

October 11, 2023

Via: SecurityWeek

The Adobe Acrobat and Reader issue is CVE-2023-21608, a use-after-free vulnerability which can be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE) with the privileges of the current user. Adobe released patches for this flaw in January 2023, but numerous proof-of-concept […]


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Ransomware attacks register record speeds thanks to success of infosec industry

October 10, 2023

Via: The Register

The time taken by cyber attackers between gaining an initial foothold in a victim’s environment and deploying ransomware has fallen to 24 hours, according to a study. In nearly two-thirds of cases analysed by Secureworks’ researchers, cybercriminals were deploying ransomware […]


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How to stop ransomware thieves WORMing their way into your data

October 6, 2023

Via: The Register

Most of us dislike cyber criminals, but not many of us dislike them quite as much as Anthony Cusimano. The director of technical marketing at storage company Object First was on the sharp end of an identity theft attack after […]


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CDW data to be leaked next week after negotiations with LockBit break down

October 6, 2023

Via: The Register

CDW, one of the largest resellers on the planet, will have its data leaked by LockBit after negotiations over the ransom fee broke down, a spokesperson for the cybercrime gang says. Speaking to The Register, the spokesperson, who uses the […]


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Mozilla Warns of Fake Thunderbird Downloads Delivering Ransomware 

October 4, 2023

Via: SecurityWeek

Cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported last week that a website where the Snatch ransomware group names victims had been leaking data, including visitor IPs and information on internal operations. According to Krebs, the leaked data suggests that the Snatch cybercrime […]


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Microsoft Bing Chat pushes malware via bad ads

September 29, 2023

Via: The Register

Microsoft introduced its Bing Chat AI search assistant in February and a month later began serving ads alongside it to help cover costs. However, some of those adverts served by Microsoft’s own ad platform have turned out to be malicious. […]