Security experts from Group-IB disclosed a new global cyberespionage phishing campaign targeting users in over 90 countries, including the U.S., Canada, South Korea, and Italy. It stated that that the campaign mimicked more than 120 global organizations.
The scammers leveraged various tactics...
Ever since the Apache Log4j flaw (CVE-2021-44228) was disclosed, cybercriminals looked for opportunities to exploit it and bypass security protections. Security experts from Check Point recently revealed that an Iranian threat actor group, dubbed Charming Kitten, targeted multiple Israeli...
The world is more connected than ever. Rapid digitalization has created enormous potential for enterprises, given the connectedness of billions of IoT devices. The priorities of the cybersecurity C-suite have also seen a shift, with CISOs and CIOs strategizing...
FBI issued an alert revealing that APT actors have been actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability – CVE-2021-44515 – on ManageEngine Desktop Central servers.
The APT actors compromised the Desktop Central servers to drop a webshell that overrides a genuine function...
Microsoft has urged organizations and users to immediately patch two Active Directory domain service privilege escalation security vulnerabilities. Tracked as CVE-2021-42287 and CVE-2021-42278, these vulnerabilities allow threat actors to takeover Windows domains. While the technology giant fixed these flaws during the...
Breaking into users’ devices via malicious applications is one of the common tactics used by malware authors. Recently, security experts from Pradeo uncovered a malicious mobile app available for download on Google Play, which was installed by more than...
While organizations and security admins worldwide are immersed in mitigating the Log4j vulnerability effects, new exploits are being weaponized to entice more fear. Recently, security experts from AdvIntel revealed that Conti ransomware operators abused the Log4j flaw (CVE-2021-44228) to...
Facebook, based on months of investigation, has banned seven cyber entities from their platform for manipulating and engaging in surveillance activity.
Facebook revealed that the surveillance services were indiscriminately targeting human rights activists, critics of authoritarian regimes, journalists, opposition parties,...
Security experts identified a new cyber espionage from the Chinese state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group “Tropic Trooper” targeting transportation, health care, and government sectors across Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Taiwan. Also known as Earth Centaur and KeyBoy,...
Digitization is growing at a very fast pace, which is touching every aspect of our lives. To truly apprehend the role of AI/ML in cybersecurity, we need to understand how cyber technology and its usage has evolved.
By Shankar Karthikason,...
