Suspected North Korean nation-state actors targeted a journalist in South Korea with a malware-laced Android app as part of a social engineering campaign. The findings come from the South Korea-based non-profit Interlab.
Security analysts at ESET unearthed a malware campaign targeting Chinese-speaking people in Southeast and East Asia. The unknown hacker group has created copycat websites of popular apps, such as Firefox, WhatsApp, and Telegram. Along with legitimate software, cyber foes also deliver FatalRAT to take over the system of a victim.
The FBI is reportedly investigating malicious cyber activity on the agency’s network. The federal law enforcement agency says it already contained the “isolated incident” and is working to uncover its scope and overall impact.
As per newly published research, when faced with sophisticated cyberattacks in a rigorous simulation setting, deep reinforcement learning was effective at stopping adversaries from reaching their goals up to 95 percent of the time.
Multibillion-dollar corporation Applied Materials, which provides technology for the semiconductor industry, said during an earnings call this week that a ransomware attack on one of its suppliers would cost it $250 million in the next quarter.
A majority of the zero-click exploits are engineered to take advantage of vulnerabilities in applications such as messaging, SMS, or email apps that receive and process untrusted data.
Check Point observed a new malicious campaign targeting corporate entities in Armenia with a new OxtaRAT backdoor variant, with an aim to conduct surveillance. The attack involved a geo-political bait wherein hackers would share an image file (.SCR) masquerading as a PDF file. It is a polyglot file that combines the image and compiled AutoIT […]
Platypus confirmed a loss of “8.5 million” from its main pool and said that deposits were covered at 85%. Other pools were unaffected. The company has contacted the hacker to negotiate a bounty for the return of the funds.
The number of data breaches affecting healthcare providers declined in the second half of 2022, consistent with a downward trend over the past two years, according to Critical Insight.
In a blog post released this week, Twitter said that non-Twitter Blue users using SMS 2FA authentication have until March 20th, 2023, to switch to another 2FA method, or it will be disabled.