October 2024 – Page 8 – PossibleThreat Articles

Sudanese Brothers Arrested in ‘AnonSudan’ Takedown

October 17, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, ahmed salah yousif omer, alaa salah yusuuf omer, amazon, anonsudan, anonymous sudan, DDoS-for-hire, FBI, godzilla botnet, infrashutdown, Ne'er-Do-Well News, skynet, u.s. department of justice, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:17:07 +0000

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the arrest and charging of two Sudanese brothers accused of running Anonymous Sudan (a.k.a. AnonSudan), a cybercrime business known for launching powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a range of targets, including dozens of hospitals, news websites and cloud providers. One of the brothers is facing life in prison for allegedly seeking to kill people with his attacks.

Security Wired

GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes

October 17, 2024 0 Comments Business, business / transportation, Security / Security News

Credit to Author: Morgan Meaker| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:32:52 +0000

So much jamming is taking place in northeastern Norway, regulators no longer want to know.

Security Wired

This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats

October 17, 2024 0 Comments Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News

Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Security researchers created an algorithm that turns a malicious prompt into a set of hidden instructions that could send a user’s personal information to an attacker.

Security Wired

Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals

October 17, 2024 0 Comments Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / National Security, Security / Security News

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:44:44 +0000

The US has accused two brothers of being part of the hacker group Anonymous Sudan, which allegedly went on a wild cyberattack spree that hit hundreds of targets—and, for one of the two men, even put lives at risk.

MalwareBytes Security

23andMe will retain your genetic information, even if you delete the account

October 17, 2024 0 Comments 23andme, account, bankruptcy, news, personal information, Privacy

Why should you and how can you delete your 23andMe account and why it does not result in a complete data removal

Security Sophos

From QR to compromise: The growing “quishing” threat

October 16, 2024 0 Comments phishing, QR code, quishing, sophos x-ops, Spam, spearphishing, threat research, x-ops

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:01:41 +0000

Attackers leverage QR codes in PDF email attachments to spearphish corporate credentials from mobile devices

Security Wired

This AI Tool Helped Convict People of Murder. Then Someone Took a Closer Look

October 16, 2024 0 Comments Business / Artificial Intelligence, Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News

Credit to Author: Todd Feathers| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Global Intelligence claims its Cybercheck technology can help cops find key evidence to nail a case. But a WIRED investigation reveals the smoking gun often appears far less solid.

MalwareBytes Security

“Nudify” deepfake bots remove clothes from victims in minutes, and millions are using them

October 16, 2024 0 Comments news, Privacy

Millions of people are turning normal pictures into nude images using bots on Telegram, and it can be done in minutes.

MalwareBytes Security

Tor Browser and Firefox users should update to fix actively exploited vulnerability

October 16, 2024 0 Comments cve-2024-9680, Exploits and vulnerabilities, firefox, news, tor browser

Mozilla warns that a vulnerability in Firefox and Tor Browser is actively being exploited against both browsers

Security TrendMicro

Fake LockBit, Real Damage: Ransomware Samples Abuse AWS S3 to Steal Data

October 16, 2024 0 Comments trend micro research : articles, news, reports, trend micro research : cloud, trend micro research : ransomware, trend micro research : research

Credit to Author: Jaromir Horejsi| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article uncovers a Golang ransomware abusing AWS S3 for data theft, and masking as LockBit to further pressure victims. The discovery of hard-coded AWS credentials in these samples led to AWS account suspensions.