Feds Hit DDoS-for-Hire Services with 48 Domain Seizures
Six also charged in connection with booter services
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsPlatforms Flooded with 144,000 Phishing Packages
NuGet, PyPi and npm inundated with malicious packages
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsReimagining Democracy
Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on reimagining democracy. The idea was to bring together people from a variety of disciplines who are all thinking about different aspects of democracy, less from a “what we need to do today” perspective and more from a blue-sky future perspective. My remit to the participants was this: […]
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- December 15, 2022
Hacking Using SVG Files to Smuggle QBot Malware onto Windows Systems
Phishing campaigns involving the Qakbot malware are using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images embedded in HTML email attachments. The new distribution method was spotted by Cisco Talos, which said it identified fraudulent email messages featuring HTML attachments with encoded SVG images that incorporate HTML script tags. HTML smuggling is a technique that relies on using legitimate features of
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- December 15, 2022
FBI Charges 6, Seizes 48 Domains Linked to DDoS-for-Hire Service Platforms
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of 48 domains that offered services to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on behalf of other threat actors, effectively lowering the barrier to entry for malicious activity. It also charged six suspects – Jeremiah Sam Evans Miller (23), Angel Manuel Colon Jr. (37), Shamar […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsReimagining Democracy
Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on reimagining democracy. The idea was to bring together people from a variety of disciplines who are all thinking about different aspects of democracy, less from a “what we need to do today” perspective and more from a blue-sky future perspective. My remit to the participants was this: […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsReimagining Democracy
Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on reimagining democracy. The idea was to bring together people from a variety of disciplines who are all thinking about different aspects of democracy, less from a “what we need to do today” perspective and more from a blue-sky future perspective. My remit to the participants was this: […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsReimagining Democracy
Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on reimagining democracy. The idea was to bring together people from a variety of disciplines who are all thinking about different aspects of democracy, less from a “what we need to do today” perspective and more from a blue-sky future perspective. My remit to the participants was this: […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsReimagining Democracy
Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on reimagining democracy. The idea was to bring together people from a variety of disciplines who are all thinking about different aspects of democracy, less from a “what we need to do today” perspective and more from a blue-sky future perspective. My remit to the participants was this: […]
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