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  • November 25, 2022

Interpol Seized $130 Million from Cybercriminals in Global “HAECHI-III” Crackdown Operation

Interpol on Thursday announced the seizure of $130 million worth of virtual assets in connection with a global crackdown on cyber-enabled financial crimes and money laundering. The international police operation, dubbed HAECHI-III, transpired between June 28 and November 23, 2022, resulting in the arrests of 975 individuals and the closure of more than 1,600 cases. This comprised two […]

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Operation Elaborate – UK police text 70,000 people thought to have fallen victim to iSpoof bank fraudsters

UK police are texting 70,000 people who they believe have fallen victim to a worldwide scam that saw fraudsters steal at least £50 million from bank accounts. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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  • November 24, 2022

Love Technical Writing

How to support your favorite tech and cybersecurity authors An opportunity arose that caused me to work on a home project and during that time nearly depleted all my pre-written posts on my latest blog series — automating cybersecurity metics. I’m trying to catch up and get that going again. But I finally have my house back […]

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Bahamut Spyware Group Compromises Android Devices Via Fake VPN Apps

The app used as part of the campaign was a trojanized version of SoftVPN or OpenVPN

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  • November 24, 2022

Cyber Blog Series by Teri Radichel

Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Software Development I decided to summarize all my blog posts series here because with close to 500 posts I’m finding it harder and harder to find something I wrote in the past that I want to reference. Blog posts arranged by recurring topics below… Cybersecurity for Executives Series complete. I published a book […]

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  • November 24, 2022

S3 Ep110: Spotlight on cyberthreats – an expert speaks [Audio + Text]

Latest episode – security expert John Shier explains what the real-life cybercrime stories in the Sophos Threat Report can teach us

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  • November 24, 2022

New RansomExx Ransomware Variant Rewritten in the Rust Programming Language

The operators of the RansomExx ransomware have become the latest to develop a new variant fully rewritten in the Rust programming language, following other strains like BlackCat, Hive, and Luna. The latest version, dubbed RansomExx2 by the threat actor known as Hive0091 (aka DefrayX), is primarily designed to run on the Linux operating system, although it’s expected that […]

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SharkBot Malware Found in Android File Manager Apps With Thousands of Downloads

The apps are no longer available on the Play Store, but can be found in third-party stores

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  • November 24, 2022

Ransomware attack forces top Indian medical institute into manual mode

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, one of India’s top medical institutes, has been forced to operate manually due to a ransomware attack on its hospital management system on Wednesday morning, which severely impacted several services. On Thursday, the hospital issued a fresh set of standard operating procedures for admission, discharge […]

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