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Security research by Malwarebytes uncovered a new threat group targeting the members of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), multiple airlines, and several individuals who are planning to emigrate to Canada for jobs. Dubbed “LazyScripter,” the hacking group is...
From multiple data breaches to a series of celebrity account hacks, social networking giant Twitter suffered many challenges last year. Threat actors created fake accounts and misused legitimate accounts for their malevolent activities. Recent reports suggest that Twitter removed...
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Dancing with the Elephants

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Undoubtedly, the year 2020 has been an inflection point for propelling increasingly more data to the cloud for superior management, predictive analysis, and secure data in a comprehensive manner. Reliable and meticulous, the top cloud providers offer top-notch security...
APT32, an infamous Vietnam-backed hacking group, is suspected to be behind a cyber campaign of spyware attacks targeting Vietnamese Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) between February 2018 and November 2020, an investigation by Amnesty Tech revealed. Also known as Ocean Lotus...
IBM released security fixes to patch high-and medium-severity vulnerabilities impacting its enterprise software solutions. The tech giant published a set of security advisories to address multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime, IBM Planning Analytics Workspace, and IBM Kenexa LMS On-Premise. The first...
A “Second Cold War” of sorts has been brewing between Ukraine and Russia ever since the latter annexed the Republic of Crimea in 2014 and subsequently also invaded Ukraine’s territory through Donbass. Russia was pushed back from Ukrainian soil,...
Federal agencies are warning about potential cyber threats posed by the infamous North Korean hacking group Lazarus. In a joint advisory, the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the U.S. Department of Treasury (DoT) revealed that...
Information security expert and author Jason Coulls often keeps an eye on cybersecurity issues related to Canadian banks and telecommunication companies in his spare time. In June 2017, while browsing Github, an online code sharing and version control service...
Cyberattacks on cryptocurrency exchanges and crypto wallets have become rampant as cybercriminals often target cryptocurrencies, whose net-worth is increasing day by day. Numerous hacks and heists have been reported in the cryptocurrency sector, where threat actors target crypto exchanges...
CrowdStrike Inc., the developer of cloud-delivered endpoint protection solutions, announced the release of the 2021 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report. The findings from the report reveal that during 2020, supply chain attacks, ransomware, data extortion, and nation-state threats prove to be more prolific than...