A proxyjacking campaign is looking for vulnerable SSH servers

Categories: Cybercrime

Categories: News

Tags: proxyjacking

Tags: cryptojacking

Tags: curl

Tags: Docker

Tags: proxy service

Tags: compromised

Proxyjacking is a cybercrime where your bandwidth is sold by criminals.

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New technique can defeat voice authentication “after only six tries”

Categories: Personal

Tags: audio

Tags: edit

Tags: editing

Tags: tags

Tags: fake

Tags: deepfake

Tags: patterns

Tags: vocal recognition

Tags: voice recognition

Tags: AI

Tags: authenticate

Tags: authentication

We take a look at research which claims a way to bypass voice recognition security by stripping synthetic aspects out of fake recordings.

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“Free” Evil Dead Rise movie scam lurks in Amazon listings

Categories: Personal

Tags: evil dead

Tags: evil dead rise

Tags: fake

Tags: scam

Tags: podcast

Tags: movie

Tags: download

Tags: stream

Tags: audible

Tags: amazon music

Tags: bruce Campbell

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Tags: Alyssa Sutherland

Tags: lee Cronin

Tags: chainsaw

We take a look at a bogus Amazon podcast listing which promises free streams of Evil Dead Rise.

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Malvertising Used as Entry Vector for BlackCat, Actors Also Leverage SpyBoy Terminator

Credit to Author: Lucas Silva| Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We found that malicious actors used malvertising to distribute malware via cloned webpages of legitimate organizations. The distribution involved a webpage of the well-known application WinSCP, an open-source Windows application for file transfer. We were able to identify that this activity led to a BlackCat (aka ALPHV) infection, and actors also used SpyBoy, a terminator that tampers with protection provided by agents.

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:30:08 +0000

Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. Experts say Kislitsin’s prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States.

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