Jan 09, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Threat A threat actor called Water Curupira has been observed actively distributing the PikaBot loader malware as part of spam campaigns in 2023. “PikaBot’s operators ran phishing campaigns, targeting victims via its two components — a loader and a core module — which enabled unauthorized remote access and allowed the […]
Cisco Talos obtained executable code capable of decrypting files affected by the Babuk Tortilla ransomware variant, allowing Talos to extract and share the private decryption key used by the threat actor. Cisco Talos shared the key with our peers at Avast for inclusion in the Avast Babuk decryptor released in 2021. The decryptor includes all […]
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Agency Prepares $1.7M Contracts for Synthetic Data Prototypes Rashmi Ramesh (rashmiramesh_) • January 8, 2024 The U.S. federal government is preparing for an era of synthetic data. (Image: Shutterstock) In a solicitation for synthetic data generators, the U.S. federal government is looking […]
A Nigerian national has been jailed for 10 years and one month and ordered to pay almost $1.5m in restitution after being convicted of serious money laundering offenses. Olugbenga Lawal, 33, of Indianapolis, Indiana, was convicted in August last year of conspiring to commit money laundering, after three co-conspirators had already pleaded guilty to the […]
Canoe dig it? WHAT’S THE NAME OF YOUR LABEL, AND WHO RUNS IT? My label Is called Canoe and it’s run by me, Nyra. WHEN & WHY DID THE LABEL START? I started the label in 2017, as I wanted to have full control over every aspect from start to finish, and to release music […]
Taiwan-based QNAP Systems on Friday announced patches for a dozen vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including high-severity flaws in its operating system. The first of the high-severity issues is CVE-2023-39296, which is described as a prototype pollution flaw that could allow remote attackers “to override existing attributes with ones that have an incompatible type, which […]
Set your clocks to LP4 Closing out 2023 with the BADBADNOTGOOD collaborative EP New Heart Designs EP; offering nu-jazz reimaginings of cuts from their 2021 mega breakout Glow On – in a similar vein to the Mall Grab collab Share A View EP which followed 2018’s sophomore smash Time & Space) – Turnstile have seemingly […]
The websites and online services for multiple Chambers of Crafts in Germany are down following a “security incident” that appears to have impacted a managed service provider. A statement on the parent organization’s website, which is still online, says that the cyberattack affected an unidentified IT service’s data center and was discovered during the first […]
Saudi Ministry exposed sensitive data for 15 months Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2024 Saudi Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources (MIM) had an environment file exposed, opening up sensitive details for anybody willing to take them. The Cybernews research team believes that the sensitive data was accessible for 15 months. An environment (env.) file serves […]