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Waterbug APT Hackers Hijacked Another APT Group Infrastructure to Attack Governments and International Organizations

Waterbug APT Hackers used hijacked infrastructure to attack governments and international organizations through various campaigns using new and publically available malware. The group also use living off the land for executing process on the systems. Symantec observed the targeted attack over the past year using unique tools and the campaigns hitting Europe, Latin America, and […]

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Tor Browser 8.5.2 Released — Update to Fix Critical Firefox Vulnerability

Important Update (21 June 2019) ➤ The Tor Project on Friday released second update (Tor Browser 8.5.3) for its privacy web-browser that patches the another Firefox zero-day vulnerability patched this week. Following the latest critical update for Firefox, the Tor Project today released an updated version of its anonymity and privacy browser to patch the same Firefox […]

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5 Keys to Improve Your Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity isn’t easy. If there was a product or service you could buy that would just magically solve all of your cybersecurity problems, everyone would buy that thing, and we could all rest easy. However, that is not the way it works. Technology continues to evolve. Cyber attackers adapt and develop new malicious tools and […]

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Most Important Cyber Attack Techniques that often used by Hackers

The cyber attack occurs on a daily basis, and these can range from attacks on tech giants to individuals falling foul to the many scams which are present online. Thankfully, there are ways in which people and groups at both ends of the scale can reduce their level of susceptibility to attacks, with virtual private […]

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Cyber Attack Not Ruled-out For 5-Nation Power Outage

Paraguay, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina are having country-wide power outages since June 16, 2019, 7:07 am Argentina time. Labeled by Argentinian authorities as a failure of the power grids that trips one after another, which grew to be 5-country large. Argentinian President, Mauricio Marci went to Twitter to issue a statement that the cause […]

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Modular Malware In The Nutshell

We are in the age of computing where programs are growing to a point towards feature-richness at best and bloatware at worst. Malware itself is also software, developers creating malware also have access to the same development environment as any other developers of legal software. They also realized that their malware was also starting to […]

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Most Difficult Security Challenges for CxO (Chief x Officers) During the Cyber Attack

New Technologies are evolving rapidly nowadays and cybercriminals also traveling, in the same way, to increase the cyber risk factor to the organization as well as individuals and the impact are keep increasing that give more pain and responsibilities for CXO sometimes called the C-level Officers. Evolving advanced cyber threats such as DDoS Attacks are creating […]

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Telegram messaging service hit by massive DDoS attack

It is unclear why Telegram was targeted or who was behind the DDoS attack. The popular privacy-focused instant messaging application service Telegram has suffered a massive DDoS attack in which its service in the United States and several other countries has been disrupted, the company has revealed. The DDoS attack began targeting Telegram’s servers around […]

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Messaging Service Telegram Hit by a Powerful DDoS Attack

The secure messaging app Telegram hit by a powerful DDoS attack and the users in united states and other countries may experience connection issues with Telegram. Telegram is a free instant messaging app like WhatsApp, well-known for its encryption, privacy, and self-destructive private messages. With Telegram, you can access your messages across multiple devices. — […]

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How Machine Learning Helps Improve Cybersecurity

Cyberattacks have increased on an unprecedented scale. Reasons are many. The main reason obviously is our increasing dependence on computing devices (computers, smartphones etc) and the internet for our day-to-day needs. It’s today a world of quickly evolving technologies. The technology that we depend on today has interconnectedness as one of its salient features. This, […]

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Who and Why Make DDoS Attacks on The Site of Colleges and Universities ?

Sites of colleges and universities are constantly subject to DDOS attacks. But who does it? do students really need to drop sites?” Hacking is a major vice of this generations young adult. Usually, it starts with the basics like hacking Wi-Fi password or a Facebook or Instagram account for pranks or just to be mean […]

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IT Security Sensitivity In The Financial Sector

IT Security’s importance is absolute, regardless of whether the corporate decision makers agree or not. It is the foundation where company’s survivability stands on. If a major failure occurs in the infrastructure or network that supports these IT services, it will be difficult to continue operations of any company worth its salt, and in an […]

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Cyber Attack Vs Cyber Safety Tips 2022

Cyber attacks are executed via the internet mostly for political or social reasons. These attacks target the general public or corporate and national organizations and are executed through the spread of malicious programs like viruses, fake websites, unauthorized web access, and several other means of stealing institutional or personal data targets of attacks, causing extensive […]

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Quest Diagnostics data breach affects 12 million customers

Clinical laboratory firm Quest Diagnostics Inc. has admitted exposure of personal information of nearly 11.9 million customers after its web payment page was accessed by an unauthorized individual. In a press release, the company revealed that its billing system, which is managed by the Quest contractor called Optum360’s hired vendor American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), […]

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Hackers Abusing Microsoft Azure to Deploy Malware and C2 Servers Using Evasion Technique

Now Microsoft Azure becomes a sweet spot for hackers to host powerful malware and also as a command and control server for sending and receiving commands to compromised systems. Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. Initially, this malicious […]

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UK’s FOI Request Exposes British Government Cybersecurity Weaknesses

Through the United Kingdom’s Freedom of Information, data and statistics that used to be state-secrets are exposed for public consumption and appreciation. It opens the venue for people from all walks of life to have their individual insights on how the former superpower manages its affairs, for or against its national agenda. Private companies may […]

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Why So Many Businesses Can Never Recover After Cyber Attacks

A cyber attack can cripple critical infrastructure and businesses and generate negative press. In other cases, it could open you and your business to litigation. This and other factors can seriously hurt a business, and it forces many of them to pay for data recovery or IT security services to undo the damage. However, many […]

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7 steps large companies are taking to safeguard against cybercrime

Cybercrime is on the rise with new exploits released every day along with new companies that simply aren’t prepared to defend against and deal with issues like data breaches and network-wide malware infections. Whether you’re a business person looking to improve company security, or just a curious party, you might be wondering how the largest […]

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