Collaborate Disseminate
By Deeba Ahmed
The global operation also led to the arrest of eight individuals, including the alleged mastermind.
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The operations are just the latest example of the proliferation of sophisticated spyware among private vendors, Google says.
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The unattributed activity employs a sophisticated approach to steal data and monitor targets, researchers say.
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Move over Shanghai Tower, a new megatall is under construction that will take your spot as world’s second-tallest skyscraper. Rising to an impressive height of 678.9 m (2,227 ft), the Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur has now officially topped out – that is,… Continue reading World’s second-tallest skyscraper pierces the sky above Kuala Lumpur
An Interpol operation to combat online fraud concluded with the arrests of 1,003 people and the interception of $27 million in illicit funds, according to the international police organization, which conducted the crackdown alongside 20 countries. Waged from June to September of this year, “Operation HAECHI-II” targeted online crime like romance scams, investment fraud and money laundering associated with illegal online gambling. But it also turned up a business email compromise scheme in Colombia and led to alerts about malware tied to the popular Netflix show “Squid Game.” Interpol said the crackdown demonstrated how cybercrime has risen to new levels since the outbreak of the coronavirus. It’s the latest international warning about how the pandemic has fueled a crime wave, even setting aside attacks targeting the health care sector or exploiting COVID-19 that have flourished over the past two years. “The results of Operation HAECHI-II show that the surge in […]
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Ransomware gangs have now struck two cybersecurity insurers in as many months, with AXA confirming over the weekend that an attack had affected its Asian operations. AXA joins CNA Insurance, which in April confirmed that a ransomware incident had forced the company to take its operations offline. The attack on AXA, though, comes shortly after the French insurer said it would no longer reimburse ransomware payments under new policies it writes in that country, although a source familiar with the attack said there was no connection between AXA’s decision and the attack on its own networks. The so-called Avaddon ransomware operators posted screenshots of information online that they said they obtained from AXA’s Asia Assistance subsidiary. The screenshots include a claim that the operators stole three terabytes of data, such as customer medical reports and claims, customer IDs and bank account papers, payments to customers and other health information. “Asia […]
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A foreign hacker sentenced to 20 years in U.S. prison for giving the Islamic State the personal information of about 1,300 U.S. military and government personnel has been given a compassionate release by a federal judge due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ardit Ferizi, who was arrested in 2015 at age 19 in Malaysia and later extradited to the U.S., must spend two weeks in quarantine before deportation by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, according to the order from Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia. Brinkema agreed with a request from Ferizi saying that his asthma and obesity put him at greater risk for contracting COVID-19. Ferizi will be deported to his home country of Kosovo, where he has a support network of family, the judge said. The judge expressed confidence that U.S. officials will be able to monitor his conduct online, given how quickly he was […]
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The Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security are calling out an unspecified “sophisticated cyber actor” Thursday for using malware to launch cyberattacks against targets in India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Russia and Ukraine. The malware, which the military’s Cyber Command has dubbed “SlothfulMedia,” is an information-stealer capable of logging keystrokes of victims and modifying files, according to an analysis shared early with CyberScoop. The agencies shared the malware sample on the malware-sharing repository on VirusTotal Thursday afternoon. The malware “is in use in successful ongoing campaigns,” a Cyber Command spokesperson told CyberScoop. The DOD and DHS did not say what threat group or nation-state might be running the malware campaign. The report does not mention specific targets, either. It’s the latest Pentagon effort to expose malware used by well-resourced hackers around the world. Cyber Command, which first began exposing state-backed hacking campaigns by sharing malware samples with the public in 2018, has previously exposed foreign […]
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Five alleged members of the China-linked advanced threat group and two associates have been indicted by a Federal grand jury, on dozens of charges. Continue reading APT41 Operatives Indicted as Sophisticated Hacking Activity Continues
By Deeba Ahmed
Two Malaysian hackers and five Chinese hackers allegedly part of a state-sponsored hacking group APT 41 charged for hacking 100 companies worldwide.
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