Cyber attack hits State Department in ‘possible serious breach’

Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a new Android trojan that hijacks users’ credentials and SMS messages to facilitate fraudulent activities against banks in Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Called “TeaBot” (or Anatsa), the malware is said to be in its early stages of development, with malicious attacks targeting financial apps commencing in late…

The White House said it was reaching out to victims of a wide-ranging ransomware outbreak that is centred on IT company Kaseya and has had an impact on hundreds of businesses worldwide. Kaseya has said that fewer than 60 of its customers had been “directly affected” by the attack. But the full impact of the…

GitHub Actions is currently being abused by attackers to mine cryptocurrency using GitHub’s servers in an automated attack. GitHub Actions is a CI/CD solution that makes it easy to automate all your software workflows and setup periodic tasks. The particular attack adds malicious GitHub Actions code to repositories forked from legitimate ones, and further creates a Pull Request…

The hacking group behind the recent cyber-attack targeting Accellion’s FTA file transfer service appears to be linked to a threat actor known as FIN11, security researchers with FireEye’s Mandiant division reveal. The attacks on FTA, a soon-to-be-retired service, started in mid-December 2020 and resulted in the compromise of data pertaining to multiple Accellion customers. As…

A cyberattack on SITA that impacted multiple airlines across the globe was likely the work of a Chinese nation-state threat actor known as APT41, according to new research from security experts at Group-IB. The attack was disclosed in March and affected airlines such as Air India, Air New Zealand, Singapore Airlines, Finnair, and more. SITA…

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Financial Institutions Support Initiative to Target Cybercrime Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • June 21, 2021     The Indian government has set up the Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System to report, track – and ultimately freeze – the proceeds of cyberattack-induced financial theft. See Also:…