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Hacked DJ’s Twitter account costs cryptocurrency investors $170,000
PRIVACY PRIVACY I know this will come as a shock to many of you, but scammers have once again succeeded in stealing a lot of money from cryptocurrency investors. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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Discord Admins Hacked by Malicious Bookmarks
PRIVACY PRIVACY A number of Discord communities focused on cryptocurrency have been hacked this past month after their administrators were tricked into running malicious Javascript code disguised as a Web browser bookmark. This attack involves malicious Javascript that is added to one’s browser by dragging a component from a web page to one’s browser bookmarks.…
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SeroXen RAT for sale
PRIVACY PRIVACY This blog was jointly written with Alejandro Prada and Ofer Caspi. Executive summary SeroXen is a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that showed up in late 2022 and is becoming more popular in 2023. Advertised as a legitimate tool that gives access to your computers undetected, it is being sold for only $30…
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What is the Dark Web? The Answer Can Help You Stay Safer Online.
PRIVACY PRIVACY The dark web. The name raises all kinds of questions. What is the dark web, really? Where is it? Can anyone hop on it? Answering these questions can help you stay safer online. The story of the dark web is a complicated one. It’s a small and highly anonymous layer of the internet.…
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Nigerian Cybercrime Ring’s Phishing Tactics Exposed
PRIVACY PRIVACY The criminal enterprise resulted in losses of up to $1m Read More
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Human Error Fuels Industrial APT Attacks, Kaspersky Reports
PRIVACY PRIVACY OT network admins grant access to employees or contractors without sufficient security measures Read More
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AI-automated malware campaigns coming soon, says Mikko Hyppönen
PRIVACY PRIVACY Cybersecurity pioneer Mikko Hyppönen began his cybersecurity career 32 years ago at Finnish cybersecurity company F-Secure, two years before Tim Berners-Lee released the first world’s first web browser. Since then, he has defused global viruses, searched for the first virus authors in a Pakistani conflict zone, and traveled the globe advising law enforcement…
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DogeRAT Malware Impersonates BFSI, Entertainment, E-commerce Apps
PRIVACY PRIVACY Discovered by CloudSEK, the malicious campaign relies on open source Android malware Read More
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Frontegg launches entitlements engine to streamline access authorization
PRIVACY PRIVACY SaaS-based customer identity and access management (CIAM) provider Frontegg has launched entitlements engine, an authorization management capability aimed at helping app developers and revenue teams streamline access authorization. The new engine will be powered by context-aware logic controls (CALC) technology to effect context-based, fine-grained authorization controls, Frontegg said. “The old way of building…
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Screen recording Android app found to be spying on users
PRIVACY PRIVACY A screen recorder app with over 50,000 downloads on Google Play Store was found to be discreetly recording audio using the device’s microphone and stealing files, suggesting it might be part of an espionage campaign, according to researchers at ESET. iRecorder was a legitimate app made available in September 2021 and a remote…