Month: June 2024
The Age of the Drone Police Is Here
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Jesse Marx| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A WIRED investigation, based on more than 22 million flight coordinates, reveals the complicated truth about the first full-blown police drone program in the US—and why your city could be next.
Read moreA US Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs
Credit to Author: William Turton| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:30:00 +0000
Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath of the scheme’s exposure.
Read moreTikTok Hack Targets ‘High-Profile’ Users via DMs
Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:11:11 +0000
TikTok has confirmed a “potential exploit” that is being used to go after accounts belonging to media organizations and celebrities, including CNN and Paris Hilton, through direct messages.
Read moreFinancial sextortion scams on the rise
Financially motivated sextortion of teenage boys is the fastest-growing global cybercrime, according to the FBI and Homeland Security.
Read moreSay hello to the fifth generation of Malwarebytes
Announcing the latest version of Malwarebytes, which brings a faster, responsive, and consistent user interface, integrated security and privacy, and expert guidance to keep you secure.
Read moreOperation Crimson Palace: A Technical Deep Dive
Credit to Author: gallagherseanm| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:00:46 +0000
Sophos Managed Detection and Response initiated a threat hunt across all customers after the detection of abuse of a vulnerable legitimate VMware executable (vmnat.exe) to perform dynamic link library (DLL) side-loading on one customer’s network. In a search for similar incidents in telemetry, MDR ultimately uncovered a complex, persistent cyberespionage campaign targeting a high-profile government […]
Read moreOperation Crimson Palace: Sophos threat hunting unveils multiple clusters of Chinese state-sponsored activity targeting Southeast Asian government
Credit to Author: gallagherseanm| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:00:34 +0000
Threat clusters targeted a government agency for cyberespionage in a campaign that had precursors dating back to early 2022.
Read moreTargetCompany’s Linux Variant Targets ESXi Environments
Credit to Author: Darrel Tristan Virtusio| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000
In this blog entry, our researchers provide an analysis of TargetCompany ransomware’s Linux variant and how it targets VMware ESXi environments using new methods for payload delivery and execution.
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