A new type of malware campaign has been discovered that apparently blocks access to the most popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay, and a number of other sites known for redistributing pirated content. According to a recent report published by the cybersecurity firm SophosLabs, the malware dubbed as “vigilante” instead of stealing passwords or extorting…
BACKGROUND: Avanan analysts have recently discovered an exploit vector in Google Docs that attackers are using to deliver malicious phishing websites to victims. The Google Docs page may look familiar to those who share Google Docs outside of their organization. This, however, isn’t that page. It’s a custom HTML page made to look like that…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management 16 Critical Infrastructure Sectors Especially Off Limits – Or Else, President Warns Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 16, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden At their Geneva summit meeting Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin that…
Cruise operator Carnival said on Thursday it had detected unauthorised access to its computer systems in March, after which it alerted regulators and hired a cyber security firm to investigate the breach. The company, whose shares were down over 2 percent, noticed the suspicious activity on March 19 and acted quickly to “to shut down…
US President Joe Biden Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz On Thursday, the White House bragged that President Joe Biden’s performance during his trip to Europe for the G7 Summit and meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin signalled that Biden was the “clear and consensus leader of the free world.” According to Breitbart, in…
A string of cyber espionage campaigns dating all the way back to 2014 and focused on gathering military intelligence from neighbouring countries have been linked to a Chinese military-intelligence apparatus. In a wide-ranging report published by Massachusetts-headquartered Recorded Future this week, the cybersecurity firm’s Insikt Group said it identified ties between a group it tracks…
Cybersecurity experts have uncovered evidence that interconnects several multi-year and sprawling cyber-espionage campaigns to a Chinese military unit operating out of the city of Ürümqi in China’s western province of Xinjiang. According to a report released today by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Unit 69010 is believed to have been behind a series…
Mr. Biden says tone of Putin talks was ‘good, positive’ Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin sought to cool tensions in the combustible U.S.-Russian relationship at their first summit in Geneva on Wednesday. However, there was no hiding their differences on issues such as human rights, where Mr. Biden said the consequences for Russia would be…
Google has rolled out yet another update to Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix four security vulnerabilities, including one zero-day flaw that’s being exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-30554, the high severity flaw concerns a use after free vulnerability in WebGL (aka Web Graphics Library), a JavaScript API for rendering interactive…
Multiple suspects believed to be linked to the Clop ransomware gang have been detained in Ukraine after a joint operation from law enforcement agencies in Ukraine, South Korea and the United States. The Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine confirmed that six arrests were made after searches at 21 residences in the…
