Tag: Cybersecurity

(Cybersecurity) Microsoft secured court order to take down domains used in BEC campaign (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Microsoft has seized 17 malicious homoglyph domains used by crooks in a business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting its users. go to...

(Cybersecurity) WiFiDemon – Recently discovered iPhone Wi-Fi bug could also allow RCE (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: A recently discovered iPhone Wi-Fi bug that could crash the WiFi connectivity could be exploited by attackers to achieve...

(Cybersecurity) US DoJ indicts four members of China-linked APT40 cyberespionage group (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: US DoJ indicted four members of the China-linked cyberespionage group known as APT40 for hacking various entities between 2011...

(Cybersecurity) Threat actor claims to have stolen 1 TB of data belonging to Saudi Aramco

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: A hacker claims to have stolen 1 TB of sensitive data from the Saudi Arabian petroleum and natural gas...

(China) Chinese government issues new vulnerability disclosure regulations

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued new vulnerability disclosure regulations that oblige experts to report zero-days to the government go...

(Cybersecurity) Instagram implements ‘Security Checkup’ to help users recover compromised accounts

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Instagram introduced a new security feature dubbed “Security Checkup” to help users to recover their accounts that have been...

(Cybersecurity) HelloKitty ransomware gang targets vulnerable SonicWall devices

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: BleepingComputer became aware that the recent wave of attacks targeting vulnerable SonicWall devices was carried out by HelloKitty ransomware...

(China) The Cyberspace Security Review Office of the Cyberspace Administration of China launched a cybersecurity review of the Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing on...

Elizabeth Chen writes for Jamestown Foundation: The Cyberspace Security Review Office (网络安全审查办公室, wangluo anquan shencha bangongshi) of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC, 国家互联网信息办公室, guojia hulianwang...

(USA/UK/Russia) As headlines pile up by the day about cyber hacks coming from within Russia, a recent United States-United Kingdom collaboration calling out wide-ranging...

Justin Sherman writes for Atlantic Council: As headlines pile up by the day about cyber hacks coming from within Russia, a recent United States-United Kingdom...

(Africa) At first glance, the ability of most African states to prevent or respond to a cyberattack by state-backed hackers would appear limited

Nathaniel Allen and Noëlle van der Waag-Cowling write for Brookings: At first glance, the ability of most African states to prevent or respond to a cyberattack...

(Cybersecurity) macOS: Bashed Apples of Shlayer and Bundlore

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: The Uptycs threat research team has been observing over 90% of macOS malware in our daily analysis and...

(Cybersecurity) Google: four zero-day flaws have been exploited in the wild

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Security researchers from Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Google Project Zero revealed that four zero-day vulnerabilities have been...

(Cybersecurity) China-linked LuminousMoth APT targets entities from Southeast Asia

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Kaspersky experts uncovered an ongoing and large-scale cyber espionage campaign, tracked as LuminousMoth, aimed at government entities from Southeast...

(Cybersecurity) Trickbot improve its VNC module in recent attacks

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: The Trickbot botnet continues to evolve despite the operations conducted by law enforcement aimed at dismantling it. The authors recently...

(Cybersecurity) China-linked hacking group DEV-0322 behind Solarwinds Serv-U zero-day attacks

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Microsoft said that the recent attacks against SolarWinds file transfer servers were carried out by a Chinese hacking group tracked...

(China) Strengthening IT security for IT companies seeking IPOs overseas

Global Times writes: China has tightened cybersecurity reviews for internet companies that seek IPOs in the overseas markets with a set of draft rules,...