4 Best Practices On How To Use SkillsFuture Credit In 2015, the SkillsFuture national movement was introduced with the objective of encouraging individuals to build a culture of skills development and lifelong learning. Under this initiative, all Singaporeans aged 25 and above will receive an opening credit of S$500. To Read more…
The Week in Ransomware – March 12th 2021 – Encrypting Exchange Servers For the past two weeks, the cybersecurity news has been dominated by stories about the Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. One overriding concern has been when will ransomware actors use the vulnerabilities to compromise and encrypt mail servers. Unfortunately, Read more…
Google Fixes Second Actively Exploited Chrome Zero-day This Month Google has fixed a second actively exploited Chrome zero-day this month with the release of Chrome 89.0.4389.90 to the Stable desktop channel for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. “Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2021-21193 exists in the wild,” the release announcement reads. No Read more…
Scammers Promote Fake Cryptocurrency Giveaways Via Twitter Ads Threat actors have started to use ‘Promoted’ tweets, otherwise known as Twitter ads, to spread cryptocurrency giveaway scams. For some time, BleepingComputer has been reporting on scammers hacking into verified Twitter accounts to promote fake cryptocurrency giveaway scams. These scams pretend to Read more…
Google Shares Spectre PoC Targeting Browser JavaScript Engines Google has published JavaScript proof-of-concept (PoC) code to demonstrate the practicality of using Spectre exploits targeting web browsers to access information from a browser’s memory. According to the Google Security Team, the PoC shared today works across a wide range of processor Read more…
Microsoft Exchange Exploits Now Used By Cryptomining Malware The operators of Lemon_Duck, a cryptomining botnet that targets enterprise networks, are now using Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon exploits in attacks against unpatched servers. The malware is known for installing XMRig Monero (XMR) CPU coinminers on infected devices to mine cryptocurrency for the Read more…
Researchers Hacked Indian Govt Sites Via Exposed Git And Env Files Researchers have now disclosed more information on how they were able to breach multiple websites of the Indian government. Last month, researchers from the Sakura Samurai hacking group had partially disclosed that they had breached cyber systems of Indian government after finding a large Read more…
New ZHtrap Botnet Malware Deploys Honeypots To Find More Targets A new botnet is hunting down and transforming infected routers, DVRs, and UPnP network devices into honeypots that help it find other targets to infect. The malware, dubbed ZHtrap by the 360 Netlab security researchers who spotted it, is loosely based on Mirai’s Read more…
Google Chrome Now Gobbles Up 20% Less Memory On Windows Google says that the latest Google Chrome version comes with major memory savings on Windows systems and improves energy consumption and overall responsiveness. Google Chrome 89, which rolled out earlier this week, comes with significant Windows memory management improvements, with the Read more…
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