General Security News
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Meta Takes Down Fake Facebook and Instagram Accounts Linked to Pro-U.S. Influence Operation
Meta Platforms on Tuesday said it took down a network of accounts and pages across Facebook and Instagram that were operated by people associated...
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Nighthawk Likely to Become Hackers' New Post-Exploitation Tool After Cobalt Strike
A nascent and legitimate penetration testing framework known as Nighthawk is likely to gain threat actors' attention for its Cobalt Strike-like...
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This Malware Installs Malicious Browser Extensions to Steal Users' Passwords and Cryptos
A malicious extension for Chromium-based web browsers has been observed to be distributed via a long-standing Windows information stealer called...
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Hackers Use New Ransomware that Encrypts Files & Steals Tokens From Victim’s Machine
Security researchers at Cyble recently identified that the authors of ransomware now have access to a brand new malicious tool – AXLocker – which...
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Daixin Ransomware Gang Steals 5 Million AirAsia Passengers' and Employees' Data
The cybercrime group called Daixin Team has leaked sample data belonging to AirAsia, a Malaysian low-cost airline, on its data leak portal. The...
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Notorious Emotet Malware Returns With High-Volume Malspam Campaign
The notorious Emotet malware has returned with renewed vigor as part of a high-volume malspam campaign designed to drop payloads like IcedID and...
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Been Doing It The Same Way For Years? Think Again.
As IT professionals, we all reach a certain point in our IT career where we realize that some of our everyday tasks are done the same way year...
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Chinese Hackers Using 42,000 Phishing Domains To Drop Malware On Victims Systems
An extensive phishing campaign targeting businesses in numerous upright markets, including retail, was discovered by Cyjax recently in which the...
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U.S. Federal Network Hacked – Iranian APT Hackers Compromised Domain Controller
Recently, the FBI and CISA published a joint advisory in which they disclosed an Iranian APT group compromised the Federal Civilian Executive...
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Google Identifies 34 Cracked Versions of Popular Cobalt Strike Hacking Toolkit in the Wild
Google Cloud last week disclosed that it identified 34 different hacked release versions of the Cobalt Strike tool in the wild, the earliest of...
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Indian Government Publishes Draft of Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022
The Indian government on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection regulation, making it the fourth such effort since it...
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Microsoft Warns of Hackers Using Google Ads to Distribute Royal Ransomware
A developing threat activity cluster has been found using Google Ads in one of its campaigns to distribute various post-compromise payloads,...