Cybersecurity

Operational Halt at First American Financial Corporation, Subsidiary After Cyberattack

A cyberattack has affected the networks and business activities of First American Financial Corporation and a number of its subsidiaries. The bank has also filed an update of the cyberattack on First American Financial Corporation to the Securities and Exchange Commission of the US. The bank’s filing can be fetched from the website of SEC […]

Cybersecurity

Kimsuky Hackers Deploying AppleSeed, Meterpreter, and TinyNuke in Latest Attacks

Dec 29, 2023NewsroomMalware / Cyber Threat Nation-state actors affiliated to North Korea have been observed using spear-phishing attacks to deliver an assortment of backdoors and tools such as AppleSeed, Meterpreter, and TinyNuke to seize control of compromised machines. South Korea-based cybersecurity company AhnLab attributed the activity to an advanced persistent threat group known as Kimsuky. […]

Cybersecurity

Microsoft Disables MSIX App Installer Protocol Widely Used in Malware Attacks

Dec 29, 2023NewsroomMalware / Endpoint Security Microsoft on Thursday said it’s once again disabling the ms-appinstaller protocol handler by default following its abuse by multiple threat actors to distribute malware. “The observed threat actor activity abuses the current implementation of the ms-appinstaller protocol handler as an access vector for malware that may lead to ransomware […]

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