Google: North Korean Hackers Target Security Researchers Again Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says that North Korean government-sponsored hackers are once again targeting security researchers using fake Twitter and LinkedIn social media accounts. The hackers also created a website for a fake company named SecuriElite (located in Turkey) and supposedly offering offensive Read more…
BazarCall Malware Uses Malicious Call Centers To Infect Victims For the past two months, security researchers have been waging an online battle against a new ‘BazarCall’ malware that uses call centers to distribute some of the most damaging Windows malware. The new malware was discovered being distributed by call centers Read more…
Malware Hidden In Game Cheats And Mods Used To Target Gamers Threat actors target gamers with backdoored game tweaks, patches, and cheats hiding malware capable of stealing information from infected systems. The attackers mostly use social media channels and YouTube how-to videos for advertising their malware-laced modding-related game tools. Cisco Read more…
Scammers Steal New Yorkers’ Private Info For Benefits Fraud New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) warns of an ongoing series of attacks resulting in the theft of personal information belonging to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. The warning follows another alert issued last month describing how this aggressive cybercrime campaign Read more…
Fake jQuery Files Infect WordPress Sites With Malware Security researchers have spotted counterfeit versions of the jQuery Migrate plugin injected on dozens of websites which contains obfuscated code to load malware. These files are named jquery-migrate.js and jquery-migrate.min.js and present at the exact locations where JavaScript files are normally present on WordPress sites but are in fact malicious. Read more…
Google Chrome For Linux Is Getting DNS-over-HTTPS, But There’s A Catch Google Chrome developers have announced plans to roll out DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) support to Chrome web browser for Linux. DoH has been supported on Google Chrome for other platforms, including Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, and Android, since at least 2020. While Read more…
US Govt Warns That Buying Fake COVID-19 Vaccine Cards Is A Crime US federal agencies have warned today against making or selling fake COVID-19 vaccination record cards as this is breaking the law. The FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued Read more…
VMware Fixes Bug Allowing Attackers To Steal Admin Credentials VMware has published security updates to address a high severity vulnerability in vRealize Operations that could allow attackers to steal admin credentials after exploiting vulnerable servers. vRealize Operations is an AI-powered and “self-driving” IT operations management for private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, available as an Read more…
Scammers Target Universities In Ongoing IRS Phishing Attacks The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning of ongoing phishing attacks impersonating the IRS and targeting educational institutions. The attacks use tax refund payment baits and mainly focus on universities’ staff and students with .edu email addresses. “The phishing emails appear to Read more…
Leading Indian Fintech Platform MobiKwik Denies Data Breach Indian digital financial services platform Mobikwik denies claims that almost 8 TB of data put up for sale was allegedly stolen from its servers. This privately held fintech platform provides financial services and a phone-based payment gateway to more than 120 million Read more…
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