Daily Cyber Brief
A pro-Russian hacktivist group tried to DDoS the U.S. Treasury, Emotet is back after a 5-month hiatus, and the Chinese mob has 100K slaves working on cyber campaigns in Cambodia...
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The US Treasury Department has thwarted a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that officials attributed to Russian hacktivist group Killnet. These are the same pro-Kremlin miscreants that claimed responsibility for knocking more than a dozen US airports' websites…
Up to 100,000 people from across Asia have been lured to Cambodia by Chinese crime syndicates with the promise of good jobs. When they arrive, their passports are seized and they are put to work in modern-day sweatshops, running cybercrime campaigns. The Los Angeles…
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has published a document highlighting charges against eight individuals for their participation in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy that involved hacking and tax fraud. US attorney Roger B. Handberg…
Threat actors are using the compromised infrastructure of an undisclosed media company to deploy the SocGholish JavaScript malware framework (also known as FakeUpdates) on the websites of hundreds of newspapers across the U.S. "The media company in question…
Adware and other unwanted and potentially risky applications continue to represent the biggest threat that users of mobile devices currently face. But that doesn't mean attackers aren't constantly trying to deploy other sophisticated mobile malware as well. The latest…
The Emotet malware operation is again spamming malicious emails after almost a five-month "vacation" that saw little activity from the notorious cybercrime operation. Emotet is a malware infection distributed through phishing campaigns containing malicious Excel or…
French defense and technology firm Thales has denied it was hit with ransomware after a hacking group threatened to leak data stolen from the company. A spokesperson for Thales confirmed that they were aware that the LockBit ransomware group announced plans to…
Fortinet on Tuesday informed customers about 16 vulnerabilities discovered in the company’s products, including six flaws that have been assigned a ‘high’ severity rating. One of the high-severity issues affects FortiTester and it allows an authenticated attacker to execute…
Researchers have discovered over two dozen Python packages on the PyPI registry that are pushing info-stealing malware. Most of these contain obfuscated code that drops "W4SP" info-stealer on infected machines, while others make use of malware purportedly created for…
Vodafone Italia is sending customers notices of a data breach, informing that one of its commercial partners, FourB S.p.A., who operates as a reseller of the telecommunications services in the country, has suffered a cyberattack. According to the notice, the cyber…