The Vice Society ransomware gang actively claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) in November 2022. This attack forced UDE to actively reconstruct its IT infrastructure, a process that is still ongoing. The threat actors also…
In December, CircleCi experienced a security incident when hackers breached their systems. The breach occurred after an engineer at the company became infected with information-stealing malware. This malware allowed the hackers to access the company’s internal systems through the engineer’s…
On Wednesday, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), a Canadian government enterprise, faced a cyber attack – a credit card hack. The country’s largest beverage alcohol retailer announced that unknown attackers had breached their website. Hackers injected malicious code…
A Canadian systems security consultant, Daniel Milisic, recently bought an Android TV box from Amazon. It came with malware. It was in its firmware. Milisic created a script and instructions to help users. It nullifies the payload and stops communicating…
This week, law enforcement from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, and Serbia successfully took down multiple call centers. The criminal organization had control of these crypto scam call centers doing online fraud. The investigation, which began in June 2022, revealed that suspects…
Check Point Research recently revealed new statistics regarding cyberattack in 2022. According to their findings, the number of cyberattacks in the last year was 38% higher in 2021. This trend appears to be directly in link to the security gaps…
Twitter data leak claims: is actively addressing the reports that a dataset of emails addresses millions of Twitter users. The email addresses are open for sale online by threat actors. The company has no evidence that the stolen data was…
According to a recent cybersecurity, software retailer Check Point report, hackers actively use the AI-based chatbot. ChatGPT is the go-to platform to write functional malware and share their findings on the dark web. This report confirms earlier findings from the…
A new advanced threat actor, Dark Pink APT by Group-IB and Saaiwc Group by Anheng Hunting Labs, has been identified as the source of attacks on government agencies and military bodies across multiple countries in the APAC region. This group…
Online markets selling drugs and other illegal substances on the darknet have begun to use custom Android apps. It increases privacy and evades law enforcement. Analysts at Resecurity first observed this trend around the beginning of the third quarter of…
