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Hackers who seized control of the official Instagram account of McDonald’s claim that they managed to steal US $700,000 from unsuspecting investors by promoting a fake cryptocurrency. Earlier this month, hackers promoted a worthless cryptocurrency token they dubbed “GRIMACE” to the 5.1 million people following McDonald’s Instagram account. At the same time, tweets from the…
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If you’ve been in cybersecurity for the past five to 10 years, you’ve probably heard the term “threat-informed defense.” Simply stated, a threat-informed defense focuses security teams, technologies, and budgets on those threats most likely to impact a particular organization, industry, geography, etc. The concept basically aligns with the famous (and often referenced) quote from…
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Aug 29, 2024Ravie LakshmananOnline Crime / Privacy French prosecutors on Wednesday formally charged CEO Pavel Durov with facilitating a litany of criminal activity on the popular messaging platform and placed him under formal investigation following his arrest Saturday. Russian-born Durov, who is also a French citizen, has been charged with being complicit in the spread…
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The cybersecurity vendor is finding ‘enduring trust’ from many customers in the wake of the massive Windows outage in July, CrowdStrike Co-founder and CEO George Kurtz said Wednesday. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said Wednesday that the cybersecurity vendor has found “enduring trust” expressed by many customers in recent weeks, following the massive Microsoft Windows outage…
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Multiple media reports this week warned Americans to be on guard against a new phishing scam that arrives in a text message informing recipients they are not yet registered to vote. A bit of digging reveals the missives were sent by a California political consulting firm as part of a well-meaning but potentially counterproductive get-out-the-vote…
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Finally in April 2022, the group launched a major attack that crippled 27 Costa Rican government organizations causing disruptions in the country’s customs and taxes platforms, impacting foreign trade and payroll payments. In response, the US State Department put up a $10 million reward for information about the identity or location of Conti’s leaders, as…
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The South Korea-aligned cyberespionage group APT-C-60 has been leveraging a zero-day code execution vulnerability in the Windows version of WPS Office to install the SpyGlace backdoor on East Asian targets. WPS Office is a productivity suite developed by the Chinese firm Kingsoft that is popular in Asia. Reportedly, it has over 500 million active users…
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Image: MidjourneyThe APT33 Iranian hacking group has used new Tickler malware to backdoor the networks of organizations in the government, defense, satellite, oil and gas sectors in the United States and the United Arab Emirates. As Microsoft security researchers observed, the threat group (also tracked as Peach Sandstorm and Refined Kitten), which operates on behalf…
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Internet of Things In the digital graveyard, a new threat stirs: Out-of-support devices becoming thralls of malicious actors 27 Aug 2024 • , 4 min. read Outdated devices are often easy targets for attackers, especially if they have vulnerabilities that can be exploited and no patches are available due to their end-of-life status. Hacks of…
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A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested after locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in a failed extortion plot targeting his employer. According to court documents, company employees received a ransom email titled “Your Network Has Been Penetrated” on November 25, around 4:44 PM EST. The…
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