Boeing Roughed-Up After Ransomware Deadline Expires The Beating Occurred Friday Amid an Aggressive New ‘Digital Extortion’ Crimewave In the uncannily evocative language of street parlance—Boeing just got jumped. Boeing, a leading aerospace and defense company, has been targeted by the notorious Lockbit syndicate in a significant ransomware attack. A vast amount of its confidential data […]
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Sad story of Tokelau, and how its top-level domain “became the unwitting host to the dark underworld by providing a never-ending supply of domain names that could be weaponized against internet users. Scammers began using .tk websites to do everything from harvesting passwords and payment information to displaying pop-up ads or delivering malware.” Tags: domain […]
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In 2023, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million. Beyond the immediate financial loss, there are long-term consequences like diminished customer trust, weakened brand value, and derailed business operations. In a world where the frequency and cost of data breaches are skyrocketing, organizations are coming face-to-face with a harsh reality: traditional […]
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Publicly-accessible Docker Engine API instances are being targeted by threat actors as part of a campaign designed to co-opt the machines into a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet dubbed OracleIV. “Attackers are exploiting this misconfiguration to deliver a malicious Docker container, built from an image named ‘oracleiv_latest’ and containing Python malware compiled as an ELF executable,” […]
Cyber NewsTA402 launches new targeted phishing campaigns
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The remarkable decline in attacker dwell time is now well-documented, but what does that mean for those doing the hands-on work of infosecurity?
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Have you heard about Dependabot? If not, just ask any developer around you, and they’ll likely rave about how it has revolutionized the tedious task of checking and updating outdated dependencies in software projects. Dependabot not only takes care of the checks for you, but also provides suggestions for modifications that can be approved with […]
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Government entities in the Middle East are the target of new phishing campaigns that are designed to deliver a new initial access downloader dubbed IronWind. The activity, detected between July and October 2023, has been attributed by Proofpoint to a threat actor it tracks under the name TA402, which is also known as Molerats, Gaza […]
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