Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: May 2023

Dragon Breath APT Group Using Double-Clean-App Technique to Target Gambling Industry

An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Dragon Breath has been observed adding new layers of complexity to its attacks by adopting a novel DLL side-loading mechanism. “The attack is based on a classic side-loading attack, consisting of a clean application, a malicious loader, and an encrypted payload, with various modifications made to these components over time,” Sophos […]

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Friday Squid Blogging: “Mediterranean Beef Squid” Hoax

The viral video of the “Mediterranean beef squid”is a hoax. It’s not even a deep fake; it’s a plastic toy. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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Moonsense Raises $4.2M in Seed Funding and Introduces Next-Gen User Behavior and Network Intelligence Solution

Hassle-free initial trial, harnesses digital body language and source data for enhanced fraud detection.

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Promising Jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, ‘US Job Services’ Leaks Customer Data

A sprawling online company based in Georgia that has made tens of millions of dollars purporting to sell access to jobs at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has exposed its internal IT operations and database of nearly 900,000 customers. The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for […]

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