A suspected Vietnamese-origin threat actor has been observed targeting victims in several Asian and Southeast Asian countries with malware designed to harvest valuable data since at least May 2023. Cisco Talos is tracking the cluster under the name CoralRaider, describing it as financially motivated. Targets of the campaign include India, China, South Korea, Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Month: April 2024
Microsoft has been blamed for “cascade of security failures” that enabled Chinese threat actors to access US government officials’ emails in the Summer of 2023, an independent report has concluded. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the Cyber Safety Review Board’s (CSRB) report into the incident on April 2, 2024, which found that
Apr 03, 2024NewsroomMobile Security / Zero Day Google has disclosed that two Android security flaws impacting its Pixel smartphones have been exploited in the wild by forensic companies. The high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities are as follows – CVE-2024-29745 – An information disclosure flaw in the bootloader component CVE-2024-29748 – A privilege escalation flaw in the firmware
AT&T has acknowledged the authenticity of a dataset containing the details of 73 million current and former customers after a hacker advertised it on a dark web marketplace around March 17. 🚨BREAKING🚨Allegedly, a threat actor has exposed data from AT&T @ATT. They claim the data shows SSN, DOB, Full Names, Phone, Addresses, Emails, and other
Apr 02, 2024NewsroomFirmware Security / Vulnerability The malicious code inserted into the open-source library XZ Utils, a widely used package present in major Linux distributions, is also capable of facilitating remote code execution, a new analysis has revealed. The audacious supply chain compromise, tracked as CVE-2024-3094 (CVSS score: 10.0), came to light last week when
Nearly half (48%) of the UK’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have lost access to data since 2019, potentially costing them billions, according to a new study from Beaming. The business ISP polled 504 UK-based business leaders about their data backup and cybersecurity strategies, as well as any incidents of data loss they experienced between
Apr 01, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Financial Fraud The Indian government said it has rescued and repatriated about 250 citizens in Cambodia who were held captive and coerced into running cyber scams. The Indian nationals “were lured with employment opportunities to that country but were forced to undertake illegal cyber work,” the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)