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Hacktivist group Anonymous has declared “cyber war” against Vladimir Putin’s government following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The well-known international hacking collective made the announcement on its Twitter account on Thursday, shortly after the Kremlin commenced military action. The message read: “The Anonymous collective is officially in cyber war against the Russian government. #Anonymous #Ukraine.” Shortly after,
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Cybersecurity agencies from the U.K. and the U.S. have laid bare a new malware used by the Iranian government-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group in attacks targeting government and commercial networks worldwide. “MuddyWater actors are positioned both to provide stolen data and accesses to the Iranian government and to share these with other malicious cyber
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We’re excited to bring you the latest edition of the McAfee 2022 Consumer Mobile Threat Report. After all, when you know the challenges you face, it’s easier to be confident online. In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at some leading examples of techniques that cybercriminals are using to trick or defraud you via
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The climate solutions we need to transform every sector are here. The question is: what role will you play in this transformation? You, your community, your business, your government? Technology is an expansive term. It’s not just apps and electronics. Human ingenuity has created everything from plows to fishing gear, bicycles to boomboxes, windmills to
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The UK’s construction industry has received its first-ever cybersecurity guidance from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The document, Cyber security for construction businesses, provides practical, tailored advice for construction firms on protecting their businesses and building projects from cyber-attackers. The guidance details the most common attack vectors construction faces, including spear-phishing, ransomware and supply chain attacks. The
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Similarities have been unearthed between the Dridex general-purpose malware and a little-known ransomware strain called Entropy, suggesting that the operators are continuing to rebrand their extortion operations under a different name. “The similarities are in the software packer used to conceal the ransomware code, in the malware subroutines designed to find and obfuscate commands (API
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More than nine in 10 (91%) UK organizations were successfully compromised by an email phishing attack last year, according to Proofpoint’s 2022 State of the Phish report. The study observed a significant rise in email-based attacks globally in 2021 compared to 2020. Over three-quarters (78%) of organizations were targeted by email-based ransomware attacks last year and 77% faced business
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Credit Suisse has hit back at allegations of severe due diligence failures exposed by a major new leak of customer account information. Details of 18,000 accounts linked to 30,000 clients containing an estimated £80bn ($100bn) were shared by an anonymous whistleblower with various media outlets, including The Guardian. “I believe that Swiss banking secrecy laws are
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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is cracking down on the criminal misuse of cryptocurrencies and digital assets. In a statement released Thursday, the DOJ announced the appointment of prosecutor and former senior counsel to the deputy attorney general, Eun Young Choi, as the first director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET). Comprising department attorneys,
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Researchers have detailed what they call the “first successful attempt” at decrypting data infected with Hive ransomware without relying on the private key used to lock access to the content. “We were able to recover the master key for generating the file encryption key without the attacker’s private key, by using a cryptographic vulnerability identified
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A man from Florida will not be serving time in prison for his role in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud scheme involving the sale of patients’ personal and medical data. Boca Raton resident, Nathan LaParl, aged 35, and his 30-year-old accomplice Talia Alexandre, of Palm Springs, worked with foreign call centers to contact Medicare patients
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) earlier this week appointed Eun Young Choi to serve as the first Director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) it established last year. The NCET was created to tackle the criminal misuse of cryptocurrencies and digital assets,” with a focus on illegal activities in virtual currency exchanges, mixing
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by Paul Ducklin If you’re using PHP in your network, check that you’re using the latest version, currently 8.1.3. Released yesterday [2022-02-17], this version fixes various memory mismanagement bugs, including CVE-2021-21708, which is a use-after-free blunder in a function called php_filter_float(). A proof-of-concept exploit based on using PHP to query a database shows that the
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The infamous Trickbot Trojan has targeted customers of scores of big-name brands over the past year, including Amazon, PayPal and Microsoft, according to new data from Check Point. The security vendor claimed that the malware had infected at least 140,000 victims since November 2020, with attackers being careful to target high-profile victims. Among the 60 brands
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Microsoft has warned of emerging threats in the Web3 landscape, including “ice phishing” campaigns, as a surge in adoption of blockchain and DeFi technologies emphasizes the need to build security into the decentralized web while it’s still in its early stages. The company’s Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team called out various new avenues through which