Cybersecurity

Massive Phishing Campaign Strikes Latin America: Venom RAT Targeting Multiple Sectors

Apr 02, 2024NewsroomMalvertising / Threat Intelligence The threat actor known as TA558 has been attributed to a new massive phishing campaign that targets a wide range of sectors in Latin America with the goal of deploying Venom RAT. The attacks primarily singled out hotel, travel, trading, financial, manufacturing, industrial, and government verticals in Spain, Mexico, […]

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Indian Government Rescues 250 Citizens Forced into Cybercrime in Cambodia

Apr 01, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Financial Fraud The Indian government said it has rescued and repatriated about 250 citizens in Cambodia who were held captive and coerced into running cyber scams. The Indian nationals “were lured with employment opportunities to that country but were forced to undertake illegal cyber work,” the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) […]

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Malicious Apps Caught Secretly Turning Android Phones into Proxies for Cybercriminals

Apr 01, 2024NewsroomBotnet / Mobile Security Several malicious Android apps that turn mobile devices running the operating system into residential proxies (RESIPs) for other threat actors have been observed on the Google Play Store. The findings come from HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence team, which said the cluster of VPN apps came fitted with a Golang […]

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Vultur Android Banking Trojan Returns with Upgraded Remote Control Capabilities

The Android banking trojan known as Vultur has resurfaced with a suite of new features and improved anti-analysis and detection evasion techniques, enabling its operators to remotely interact with a mobile device and harvest sensitive data. “Vultur has also started masquerading more of its malicious activity by encrypting its C2 communication, using multiple encrypted payloads […]