April, 2023

• 28 April

  SANS Reveals Top 5 Most Dangerous Cyberattacks for 2023

  

  Expert instructors from the SANS Institute here yesterday detailed what they cite as the most dangerous forms of cyberattacks for 2023. Some of the key themes bubbling to the surface included the intersection of AI with attack patterns and the ways that attackers are taking advantage of highly flexible development …

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• 28 April

  India Cosmos Bank Cyber Attack – 11 Accused in Cyber Fraud Case

  

  The Cosmos cooperative bank in Pune, among the city’s oldest urban cooperative banks, has fallen prey to cyber fraudsters. Hackers gained access to the bank’s system and stole Rs 94 crore. A court in Maharashtra’s Pune had found 11 persons guilty. Fahim Shaikh and Mohammad Saeed Iqbal Hussain Jafari of …

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• 28 April

  Google Obtains Court Order to Disrupt CryptBot Distribution

  

  Google this week announced that it has obtained a court order that helped it disrupt the CryptBot information stealer’s distribution. Initially designed to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive information such as credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and more, CryptBot was also seen distributing banking trojans. Over the past year alone, the malware infected …

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• 28 April

  Daily Cybersecurity Update, April-27, 2023

  

  A Massachusetts city became the victim of a cyberattack that severely disrupted its network and systems. Residents have been notified. Let us introduce you to malverposting – threats delivered through social media. In one such campaign, the attacker has been exploiting Facebook Ads. Moving on, security researchers identified two ransomware …

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• 26 April

  Daily Cybersecurity Update, April-26, 2023

  

  While healthcare providers are reassessing the use of third-party tracking tools and the cyber risks associated with them, a medical technology provider became the latest to disclose a privacy breach. In other news, FIN7 is back in the headlines. It is targeting a vulnerability in Veeam instances. The education sector …

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• 26 April

  Cisco Launches Advanced Threat Detection XDR Platform

  

  In the recent hybrid, multi-vendor, multi-threat world, Cisco Extended Detection and Response (XDR) streamlines security operations with unrivaled visibility across the network and endpoint. To accomplish its goal of the Cisco Security Cloud, a unified, AI-driven, cross-domain security platform, Cisco recently presented the most recent development. Organizations should defend the …

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• 26 April

  Hackers Using YouTube as a Malware Distribution Platform Via Hacked YT Channel

  

  Morphisec Threat Labs researchers have recently exposed a sneaky loader called “in2al5d p3in4er” (Invalid Printer) that delivers Aurora information stealer malware through YouTube videos. Using an advanced anti-VM technique, the in2al5d p3in4er loader, built with Embarcadero RAD Studio, specifically targets endpoint workstations. Late in 2022, Aurora appeared on the threat …

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• 26 April

  Daily Cybersecurity Update, April-25, 2023

  

  Organizations with ties with the government are a lucrative target for cybercriminals. One such commercial and defense shipbuilder, which is also a U.S. Navy contractor, fell victim to a ransomware attack. Unsecured databases continue to be a huge problem as Peugeot became the latest in line to leak its user …

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• 26 April

  Insider Q&A: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on Shepherding ChatGPT

  

  OpenAI was building a reputation in the artificial intelligence field but wasn’t a household name when Mira Murati joined the nonprofit research lab in 2018. Soon after, the San Francisco lab started a major transformation. It turned itself into a business that’s attracted worldwide attention as the maker of ChatGPT. Now its …

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• 24 April

  Daily Cybersecurity Update, April 24- 2023

  

  Black Basta ransomware claimed a new victim – Yellow Pages Canada. The threat actor ended up leaking a sample archive containing sensitive details. Speaking of ransomware, a Dutch cable TV provider fell prey to one. The attack was quite disruptive, taking offline every service. In a completely new attack tactic, …

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