Google’s new AI-powered ‘Search Generative Experience’ algorithms recommend scam sites that redirect visitors to unwanted Chrome extensions, fake iPhone giveaways, browser spam subscriptions, and tech support scams.
Customers of bankrupt crypto platform BlockFi have been targeted with a very convincing phishing email impersonating the platform, asking them to connect their wallet to complete the withdrawal of remaining funds.
Russian state-backed hackers are likely behind recent attacks on four Ukrainian internet providers, disrupting their operations for over a week. A group known as Solntsepek claimed responsibility for the incidents on its Telegram channel last week.
In a report released March 7, the U.N. experts said they tracked the activity of “cyberthreat actors subordinate to the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), including Kimsuky, the Lazarus Group, Andariel and BlueNoroff,” between 2017 and 2023.
Police in Romania and Spain have struck a blow against a sophisticated cyber-fraud gang that tricked victims out of millions of dollars through fake ads and business email compromise (BEC) scams.
The multi-stage and evasive malicious payload harvests passwords, credentials, and more dumps of valuable data from infected systems and exfiltrates them to the attacker’s infrastructure.
The campaign has been active since late February and mainly uses phishing emails that appear to come from the German Christian Democratic Union, according to a report by Mandiant.
The parent company IAG has reportedly sent out a breach notification email to affected individuals, telling them that their names, dates of birth, nationalities, ID cards, passport information, and phone numbers, have all been taken by the hackers.
High-risk vulnerabilities in operating systems across major vendors such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Cisco, network infrastructure, including VPNs, and enterprise software, accounted for two-thirds of all active exploits in 2023.
The data exposed in the Greensboro College data leak encompassed a broad spectrum of personal details, including names, Social Security numbers, student identification numbers, dates of birth, passport numbers, and health information.