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 …
Read More »Daily Cybersecurity Update, May 08, 2023
Since its inception, the BlackCat ransomware group (aka ALPHV) has created quite some havoc among organizations across the world. It recently hit a Canadian software firm and threatened to leak a massive trove of data. On the topic of data breaches, the March attack on NextGen Healthcare impacted over a …
Read More »Google search upgrade including ChatGPT-like bot
Google plans to sway the youth by making its search engine “visual, snackable, personal, and human,” the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. The move comes as artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as ChatGPT are rapidly gaining in popularity, highlighting a technology that could upend the way businesses and society …
Read More »38 apps spread malware on Smartphone: McAfee
You know how we told you around two weeks ago about more than 60 Android apps with a collective total of over 100 million Google Play downloads that were found to push invasive ads without the user’s permission and gather a host of sensitive information… also without notifying you or asking for …
Read More »South Asian Network Operators Group, SANOG39 event held Dhaka, May 9
The 39th edition of the South Asian Network Operators Group SANOG39, clubbing with bdNOG16, is set to take place in Dhaka, Bangladesh from May 9th to May 13th, 2023, and will be hosted by the Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB) in collaboration with the Bangladesh Network Operators Group …
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