Germany is set to introduce a dedicated cyber branch in its military structure to counter the growing cyber threats. The German Cyber and Information Domain Service (CIR) will become the fourth independent branch of the country’s armed forces. “Like the army, air force and navy, it has responsibility for carrying …
Read More »Daily Cybersecurity update, April 04, 2024
Researchers unveiled a new ransomware, called SEXi, that poses a threat to VMware ESXi servers. Additionally, it is believed to have scored its first victim which is a hosting provider. Intel 471 reported a surge in smishing attacks from a group of threat actors, called The Com, which uses sophisticated …
Read More »CISA Releases Two Industrial Control Systems Advisories
CISA released two advisories on April 4, 2024 about security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits for Industrial Control Systems (ICS). ICSA-24-095-01 Hitachi Energy Asset Suite 9 ICSA-24-095-02 Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories SEL CISA recommends reviewing the newly issued ICS advisory for more information and ways to address the issue.
Read More »MD-DMD of merged weak bank to lose job
Bangladesh Bank has issued regulations stating that the Managing Directors (MDs) and Deputy Managing Directors (DMDs) of the weaker banks involved in the merger will lose their jobs. This was announced on Thursday, April 4th. The director of the struggling bank resulting from the merger cannot hold any director position …
Read More »New HTTP/2 Vulnerability Exposes Web Servers to DoS Attacks
The HTTP/2 protocol has a vulnerability in the CONTINUATION frame that allows for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Security researcher Bartek Nowotarski named this technique HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood and reported it to the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) on January 25, 2024. “Many HTTP/2 implementations do not properly limit or sanitize the amount …
Read More »WhatsApp is down worldwide! users facing problem
WhatsApp is currently experiencing a global outage. Users around the world are unable to connect to the messaging service since 2PM ET today. The problem seems to be affecting all 2 billion users of WhatsApp. WhatsApp does not have a status page. It is also not listed on Meta’s service …
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CYBERSECURITY AND DATA PROTECTION
Serious security breach hits EU police agency
They were supposed to be under lock and key, in a secure storage room deep inside Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. But a clutch of highly sensitive files containing the personal information of top law enforcement executives went missing last summer. Europe’s law enforcement agency has been mired in a …
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BANKING, MALWARE, FINANCIAL SERVICES, RAT, JS
JSOUTPROX ATTACK FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN APAC
A new version of JSOutProx has been detected by Resecurity. This version is targeting financial services and organizations in the APAC and MENA regions. JSOutProx is a sophisticated attack framework that uses both JavaScript and .NET to carry out its attacks. The malware allows for the loading of various plugins …
Read More »India is likely to host Meta’s first data centre
Meta is likely to establish its first data center in India at the Reliance Industries campus in Chennai. This move will enable the company to process user-generated content from its popular apps like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp locally as reported by Economictimes. Mark Zuckerberg’s company made a deal with RIL …
Read More »Expert opinion about the BTCL .bd domain issue
Executive member of Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) and One of key person of Internet initiative of japan (IIJ) Yoshinobu Matsuzaki said, “.bd has 4 nameservers. 3 of them, dns.bd, surma.btcl.net.bd and jamuna.btcl.net.bd are answering SERVFAIL to any .bd queries. But they are answering some functional queries like id.server …
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