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…
The Kinsing malware is currently actively attacking Kubernetes. By exploiting known vulnerabilities in container images and misconfigured, Kinsing malware clusters exposed PostgreSQL containers. These tactics may not be new. But Microsoft’s Defender for Cloud team has recently noticed an increase…
It sounds like a potential security vulnerability in the Visual Studio Code extensions marketplace. It could allow attackers to upload rogue extensions that masquerade as legitimate ones. These can be instrumental to launch supply chain attacks against organizations that use…
Slack is a messaging platform businesses and organizations worldwide use to collaborate. It allows teams to communicate, collaborate, and share files and information in real time. Salesforce owns it and it has an estimated 18 million users. Recently, Slack suffered…
