Aug 19, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered new infrastructure linked to a financially motivated threat actor known as FIN7. The two clusters of potential FIN7 activity “indicate communications inbound to FIN7 infrastructure from IP addresses assigned to Post Ltd (Russia) and SmartApe (Estonia), respectively,” Team Cymru said in a report published…
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Lateral movement inside AWS environments In the hands of knowledgeable hackers, leaked secrets can be very powerful and dangerous. For example, the attackers behind this operation exhibited advanced knowledge of AWS APIs.After obtaining an AWS access key the attackers used it to run a GetCallerIdentity API call to verify the identity or role assigned to…
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Windows 11 Build 27686 has a few noteworthy improvements, such as 2TB support for FAT32 storage. It also improves Windows Sandbox and offers greater control over HDR settings, but there’s an undocumented change – the ability to set power mode for different power states. As shown in the screenshot below, Windows 11 will finally let you set different…
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Google will redact your credit card details, passwords and other sensitive information in Chrome when you’re sharing or recording your screen on Android. Google Chrome doesn’t allow you to capture anything when used in incognito mode, but that’s not the case in regular tabs. If you’re recording or sharing your screen, you’re also leaking your…
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A clever disinformation campaign engages several Microsoft Azure and OVH cloud subdomains as well as Google search to promote malware and spam sites. Android users receive a “new info related to…” Google search notification about a subject they have previously searched about, but are then presented with misleading search results, driving traffic to scam websites disguised as…
Read MoreA new data extortion group tracked as Mad Liberator is targeting AnyDesk users and runs a fake Microsoft Windows update screen to distract while exfiltrating data from the target device. The operation emerged in July and although researchers observing the activity did not seen any incidents involving data encryption, the gang notes on their data leak…
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OpenAI on Friday said it banned a set of accounts linked to what it said was an Iranian covert influence operation that leveraged ChatGPT to generate content that, among other things, focused on the upcoming U.S. presidential election. “This week we identified and took down a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that were generating content for…
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Video Business email compromise (BEC) has once again proven to be a costly issue, with a company losing $60 million in a wire transfer fraud scheme 16 Aug 2024 A Luxembourg-based chemicals and manufacturing company has recently suffered one of the largest-ever business email compromise (BEC) attacks. According to a filing to the U.S. Securities…
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The imminent release of Cisco HyperShield this month marks a pivotal evolution in the cybersecurity landscape. As an “AI-native” security architecture, HyperShield promises to redefine traditional security protocols through its automated proactive cybersecurity measures and AI-driven security solutions. However, the effectiveness of this sophisticated technology heavily relies on the skilled deployment by IT and Information…
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Microsoft has shared a workaround for a known issue affecting Microsoft 365 customers and causing classic Outlook to crash after opening or when starting up in Safe mode. Impacted users can confirm if they’re affected by this specific issue by looking for Event 1000 or Event 1001 crashes in the Windows Event Viewer Application Log…
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