Collaborate Disseminate
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Thursday announced an expansion of its Facebook Protect security program to include human rights defenders, activists, journalists, and government officials who are more likely to be targeted by bad act… Continue reading Meta Expands Facebook Protect Program to Activists, Journalists, Government Officials
Four different malicious frameworks designed to attack air-gapped networks were detected in the first half of 2020 alone, bringing the total number of such toolkits to 17 and offering adversaries a pathway to cyber espionage and exfiltrate classified … Continue reading Researches Detail 17 Malicious Frameworks Used to Attack Air-Gapped Networks
Socially engineered SMS messages are being used to install malware on Android devices as part of a widespread phishing campaign that impersonates the Iranian government and social security services to make away with credit card details and steal funds… Continue reading Researchers Warn Iranian Users of Widespread SMS Phishing Campaigns
A Russian national charged with providing bulletproof hosting services for cybercriminals, who used the platform to spread malware and attack U.S. organizations and financial institutions between 2009 to 2015, has received a 60-month prison sentence.
… Continue reading Russian Man Gets 60 Months Jail for Providing Bulletproof Hosting to Cyber Criminals
Mozilla has rolled out fixes to address a critical security weakness in its cross-platform Network Security Services (NSS) cryptographic library that could be potentially exploited by an adversary to crash a vulnerable application and even execute arb… Continue reading Critical Bug in Mozilla’s NSS Crypto Library Potentially Affects Several Other Software
A newly discovered botnet capable of staging distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeted unpatched Ribbon Communications (formerly Edgewater Networks) EdgeMarc appliances belonging to telecom service provider AT&T by exploiting a four-ye… Continue reading New EwDoor Botnet Targeting Unpatched AT&T Network Edge Devices
Three different state-sponsored threat actors aligned with China, India, and Russia have been observed adopting a new method called RTF (aka Rich Text Format) template injection as part of their phishing campaigns to deliver malware to targeted system… Continue reading Hackers Increasingly Using RTF Template Injection Technique in Phishing Attacks
A sixth member associated with an international hacking group known as The Community has been sentenced in connection with a multimillion-dollar SIM swapping conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said.
Garrett Endicott, 22, from the U.S. st… Continue reading Hacker Jailed for Stealing Millions of Dollars in Cryptocurrencies by SIM Hijacking
Twitter on Tuesday announced an expansion to its private information policy to include private media, effectively prohibiting the sharing of photos and videos without express permission from the individuals depicted in them with an aim to curb doxxing… Continue reading Twitter Bans Users From Posting ‘Private Media’ Without a Person’s Consent
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed eight-year-old security flaws affecting 150 different multifunction printers (MFPs) from HP Inc that could be potentially abused by an adversary to take control of vulnerable devices, pilfer sensitive inf… Continue reading Critical Wormable Security Flaw Found in Several HP Printer Models