The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has received no instructions to restore social media, a spokesperson for the authority said Saturday. Confirming that mobile internet services have been restored across the country, the PTA spokesperson said that no instructions have been received so far to restore social media platforms. Earlier, on …
Read More »Annonymous Sudan attack First Abu Dhabi Bank, RAKBANK, and Mashreq Bank: Media claim
The news ‘UAE banks cyber attack by Anonymous Sudan‘ has put financial services in the GCC region on high alert. In a startling development, the notorious Anonymous Sudan has attacked UAE banks. Specifically, First Abu Dhabi Bank, RAKBANK, and Mashreq Bank have fallen victim to the group’s onslaught on a probable spree of …
Read More »Who is Linda Yaccarino, the possible female CEO of Twitter?
As Elon Musk broke his silence on who will take over from him as Twitter CEO after a “painful” acquisition, all eyes are now on Linda Yaccarino, NBC Universal’s chairman of Global Advertising and Partnerships. Although Musk is yet to reveal the name of the upcoming female CEO who will …
Read More »Elon Musk has found the new Twitter CEO: Who’s coming in
Twitter may finally get a new CEO. Tesla and the Twitter owner Elon Musk has announced that he has found a new chief executive for Twitter. “Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks!”, Musk said in a tweet: Twitter boss, however, did not name …
Read More »Daily Cybersecurity Update, May-11, 2023
Art and entertainment venues have lately become quite a lucrative target for threat actors aiming to get their hands on customer information. After The Met, the latest victim in the list includes the National Gallery of Canada, which partially lost some operational data in a ransomware attack. A two-year-long analytical …
Read More »Mysterious Team Bangladesh Claims Responsibility for Ethiopian Ministry of Health Cyber Attack
Hacktivist group Mysterious Team Bangladesh has taken responsibility for the Ethiopian Ministry of Health cyber attack. The website, which was inaccessible during our initial investigation, is live now. In a tweet, the group claimed the alleged Ethiopian Ministry of Health cyber attack by posting a picture of the website, which …
Read More »FBI Disables ‘Sophisticated’ Russian Snake Cyberspying Tool
U.S. officials announced on Tuesday that they had destroyed a worldwide network of compromised computers that Russian intelligence personnel had used to spy on the U.S. and its allies for over 20 years. It has been reported that a branch of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) stole classified material from …
Read More »WhatsApp Can’t be Trusted, Elon Musk Warns
After a Twitter engineer posted photos of an Android dashboard showing his WhatsApp microphone being used while he slept, Elon Musk declared that WhatsApp could not be trusted. A developer for Twitter named Foad Dabiri said that while he was sleeping, the instant messaging app had been using his microphone in the background. According …
Read More »US Seizes Domains of 13 DDoS-for-Hire Services
The FBI has been coordinating Operation PowerOFF since 2018, aiming to disrupt the DDoS-for-hire service infrastructures worldwide. As part of this Operation, On May 8th, 2023, the FBI seized around 13 internet domains that offered DDos-for-hire services. The FBI has named them “Booter” services as these services result in “booting” or …
Read More »LockBit 3.0 Leaks 600 GBs of Data Stolen From Indian Lender
The LockBit 3.0 ransomware group on Monday leaked 600 gigabytes of critical data stolen from Indian lender Fullerton India, two weeks after the group demanded a $3 million ransom from the company. Fullerton India said on April 24 that it had suffered a malware attack that forced it to temporarily operate offline …
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