Meta cracks down on millions of accounts it tied to pig-butchering scams

It’s one part of a strategy to combat the fast-growing scheme that has cost victims billions of dollars.

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Meta cracks down on millions of accounts it tied to pig-butchering scams

It’s one part of a strategy to combat the fast-growing scheme that has cost victims billions of dollars.

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Chinese APT Posing as Cloud Services to Spy on Cambodian Government

By Deeba Ahmed
Palo Alto’s Unit 42 Reveals Chinese APT Spying on 24 Cambodian Government Entities as Part of Long-Term Cyberespionage.
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Dark Pink, a newly discovered hacking campaign, threatens Southeast Asian military, government organizations

The unattributed activity employs a sophisticated approach to steal data and monitor targets, researchers say.

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Smashing Security podcast #293: Massive crypto bungle, and the slave scammers

A couple unexpectedly find $10.5 million in their cryptocurrency account, and in Cambodia people are being forced to commit scams.

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FBI arrests 65 in BEC scams that took $51 million from U.S. businesses

“Operation Eagle Sweep” is the latest crackdown on business email compromise (BEC) scams by international law enforcement.

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This China-linked espionage group keeps trying to hack the Cambodian government

There is no shortage of malware that government-backed hackers can get from the public domain, saving them the trouble of developing their own code. But to meet their intelligence-gathering needs, plenty of groups still roll up their sleeves and build their own kits. A Chinese espionage outfit known as Rancor has been particularly active on that front. New findings from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 research unit, shared exclusively with CyberScoop, show how, over the past year, the group has tried to break into the network of an unnamed Cambodian government organization and deploy their custom malware. First, the group laced a Microsoft Excel document with previously undocumented malware in an attempted breach of the Cambodian organization in December 2018 and January 2019, Unit 42 said. When that didn’t work, Rancor packed a computer script with a bunch of potentially infectious code, Unit 42 researchers discovered in July. The research […]

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