Cybersecurity
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Governance & Risk Management , Managed Detection & Response (MDR) , Security Operations Deal Will Expand BlueVoyant’s Footprint in US Government, Defense Industrial Base Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • November 29, 2023 BlueVoyant CEO Jim Rosenthal and Conquest Cyber President Jeff Engle (Images: BlueVoyant) BlueVoyant has purchased an adaptive risk management vendor led by […]
Executive Summary Unit 42 researchers observed a series of apparently related attacks against organizations in the Middle East, Africa and the U.S. We will discuss a set of tools used in the course of the attacks that reveal clues about the threat actors’ activity. We are sharing this research to provide detection, prevention and hunting […]
Foreign interference groups are attempting to build and reach online audiences ahead of a number of significant elections next year, “and we need to remain alert,” Meta warned on Thursday. National elections are set to be held in the United States, United Kingdom and India — three of the world’s largest economies — as well […]
While MGM Resorts International CFO Jonathan Halkyard said Tuesday that business was largely back to normal roughly a month after its September cyberattack, he also doesn’t expect a related insurance matter to be resolved until sometime next year. “We will have a business interruption claim … which should be resolved sometime in 2024,” Halkyard said […]
A Ukrainian citizen was sentenced to eight years in U.S. prison for administering a marketplace that sold the personal information of millions of Americans. Vitalii Chychasov, 37, was arrested in March of last year while attempting to enter Hungary and was later extradited to the U.S. Chychasov previously agreed to forfeit $5 million in proceeds […]
Dec 01, 2023NewsroomMobile Security / Banking Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new sophisticated Android malware called FjordPhantom that has been observed targeting users in Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam since early September 2023. “Spreading primarily through messaging services, it combines app-based malware with social engineering to defraud banking customers,” Oslo-based mobile […]
Dec 01, 2023The Hacker NewsMalware / Cyber Threat The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI recently collaborated in a multinational operation to dismantle the notorious Qakbot malware and botnet. While the operation was successful in disrupting this long-running threat, concerns have arisen as it appears that Qakbot may still pose a danger in […]
Dec 01, 2023NewsroomMalware / Cyber Espionage A suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor has been attributed to a malicious campaign that targets the Uzbekistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and South Korean users with a remote access trojan called SugarGh0st RAT. The activity, which commenced no later than August 2023, leverages two different infection sequences to deliver the […]
Dec 01, 2023The Hacker NewsNetwork Security / Cyber Attack The most recent Gcore Radar report and its aftermath have highlighted a dramatic increase in DDoS attacks across multiple industries. At the beginning of 2023, the average strength of attacks reached 800 Gbps, but now, even a peak as high as 1.5+ Tbps is unsurprising. To […]