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A 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail in Canada for his participation in the LockBit global ransomware operation. Mikhail Vasiliev, an Ontario resident, was originally arrested in November 2022 and charged by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) with “conspiring with others to intentionally damage protected computers and to […]
“…well, of course!” is what you might think. It’s a biological threat, so how could it affect digital assets? But hang on. Among other effects, this pandemic has brought about a massive shift in several technological areas. Not only did it force numerous organizations – that up to now were reluctant – to gear up […]
The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT29 targeted European diplomatic missions and Ministries of Foreign Affairs as part of a series of spear-phishing campaigns mounted in October and November 2021. According to ESET’s T3 2021 Threat Report shared with The Hacker News, the intrusions paved the way for the deployment of Cobalt Strike Beacon on […]
The latest Omicron phishing scam is currently targeting unsuspecting users in the United Kingdom and uses fake NHS emails to do so. Omicron is the new variant of COVID-19 that has stirred anxiety worldwide, and scammers are eager to exploit this new opportunity to trap innocent users and steal data. According to consumer watchdog group […]
The uncontrolled outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic brought the entire world to a standstill and tremendously disrupted everyday life. Covid-19 has adversely impacted every sector and forced more and more working professionals to work from home. Performing job-related activities while staying confined to home for months during the Covid time wouldn’t have been possible […]
The incident took place after the Elasticsearch server used by eHAC developers exposed the data due to misconfiguration. According to Indonesian health ministry official Anas Ma’ruf, the country’s COVID-19 test and trace application had an inherent security flaw due to which the personal information and health status of around 1.3 million individuals got exposed. Ma’ruf, […]
LemonDuck was first discovered in China in 2019 as a cryptocurrency botnet that used affected systems for Monero mining. According to a new report from Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team, a revamped version of LemonDuck crypto-mining malware is now targeting Windows and Linux devices. The malware lets threat actors insert backdoors, steal credentials, and conduct a […]
The website was scamming users in the name of providing the COVID-19 vaccine but actually collecting their personal data for malicious purposes. The US Attorney’s office for the District of Maryland has seized “freevaccinecovax.org” which purported to be the website of an actual biotechnology company developing a vaccine for COVID-19 but in reality, it was […]
Digital transformation is a buzzword but it’s also a primary goal of many organizations. With the ability to see past the pandemic, many organizations are looking forward to how they can grow into the future. The ongoing evolution of technology means that these organizations have many options to choose from. However, securing these new devices […]
The US has designated 6 Russian technology companies involved in developing tools to facilitate malicious cyber activities like the SolarWinds hack. In a new development, the United States and the United Kingdom have announced that hackers working for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) are behind the infamous SolarWinds hack and other recently targeted espionage […]
COVID-19 testing service in the State of Utah stored passport scans and other highly personal data on unsecured Amazon S3 buckets. A COVID-19 testing service in Utah ran by Premier Diagnostics exposed sensitive information of more than 50,000 people by storing data on two unsecured Amazon S3 buckets. What data was exposed The information included […]