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Hackers Compromised Bangladesh Embassy Website that Drops Weaponized Word Document with Malware

Threat actors compromised the Bangladesh embassy in Cairo website and taking control to drops the weaponized word documents that contains privilege escalation flaw exploit (CVE-2017-7255). Attackers are usually distributing various malware via malspam and phishing emails which includes some of the convince action take place in order to infect the victims. But this is totally […]

Government websites go offline, possible mass cyber attack aimed at India

A Mandarin character in an error message on the inaccessible website of the ministry of defense, and a tweet by the defense minister that hinted at a possible hacking, followed by the subsequent inaccessibility of at least nine other government websites, created panic on Friday about a possible mass cyber attack aimed at India by […]

Attackers Hijacked 4275 Websites Including U.S. & UK Govt Sites to Run Cryptocurrency Mining Script

Attackers hijacked 4275 websites to inject Coinhive Monero miner including the websites of government authorities(ico.org.uk), NHS Foundation (nhs.uk), and uscourts.gov. Crypto-Mining Attacks are one of the biggest emerging threats for enterprises. And the recent trend is more mainstream and is done directly via web pages. One thing in common for all the infected websites is […]

Canadian Government Websites Hacked By a Group Called Aerith

Recent hacking events have stirred a controversy among the Canadian authorities. The past weekend, Ottawa police apprehended a teenage boy in a swatting case. The boy was accused to call in for emergency situations just to tease and catch the attention of the authority, and was said to be a part of 60 such cases. […]