Over 2400 Fake Pages Found Targeting Job Seekers in Middle East, Africa
The scam targeted more than 40 well-known brands from 13 countries in the MEA region
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- March 21, 2023
Google Pixel phones had a serious data leakage bug – here’s what to do!
What if the “safe” images you shared after carefully cropping them… had some or all of the “unsafe” pixels left behind anyway?
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsBECs double in 2022, overtaking ransomware
A look at 4th quarter 2022, data suggests that new threat surfaces notwithstanding, low-code cybersecurity business email compromises including phishing, as well as MFA bombing are still the prevalent exploits favored by threat actors. The post BECs double in 2022, overtaking ransomware appeared first on TechRepublic.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsFriday Squid Blogging: New Species of Vampire Squid Lives 3,000 Feet below Sea Level
At least, it seems to be a new species. 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.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- March 19, 2023
How CISOs Can Work With the CFO to Get the Best Security Budget
CISOs can and should push back when they’re presented with budget costs that affect the business. Here’s how.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- March 19, 2023
Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin”
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely show up for sale. The forum’s administrator “Pompompurin” has been a thorn in the side of the FBI for years, and BreachForums […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- March 19, 2023
LockBit 3.0 Ransomware: Inside the Cyberthreat That’s Costing Millions
U.S. government agencies have released a joint cybersecurity advisory detailing the indicators of compromise (IoCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with the notorious LockBit 3.0 ransomware. “The LockBit 3.0 ransomware operations function as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model and is a continuation of previous versions of the ransomware, LockBit 2.0, and LockBit,”
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- March 19, 2023
Pompompurin Unmasked: Infamous BreachForums Mastermind Arrested in New York
U.S. law enforcement authorities have arrested a New York man in connection with running the infamous BreachForums hacking forum under the online alias “Pompompurin.” The development, first reported by Bloomberg Law, comes after News 12 Westchester, earlier this week, said that federal investigators “spent hours inside and outside of a home in Peekskill.” “At one point, […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- March 19, 2023
Chinese Hackers Exploit Fortinet Zero-Day Flaw for Cyber Espionage Attack
The zero-day exploitation of a now-patched medium-severity security flaw in the Fortinet FortiOS operating system has been linked to a suspected Chinese hacking group. Threat intelligence firm Mandiant, which made the attribution, said the activity cluster is part of a broader campaign designed to deploy backdoors onto Fortinet and VMware solutions and maintain persistent access to victim
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