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New BiBi-Windows Wiper Targets Windows Systems in Pro-Hamas Attacks

Nov 13, 2023NewsroomCyber Warfare / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have warned about a Windows version of a wiper malware that was previously observed targeting Linux systems in cyber attacks aimed at Israel. Dubbed BiBi-Windows Wiper by BlackBerry, the wiper is the Windows counterpart of BiBi-Linux Wiper, which has been put to use by a pro-Hamas hacktivist […]

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Microsoft Warns of Fake Skills Assessment Portals Targeting IT Job Seekers

Nov 11, 2023NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cybercrime A sub-cluster within the infamous Lazarus Group has established new infrastructure that impersonates skills assessment portals as part of its social engineering campaigns. Microsoft attributed the activity to a threat actor it calls Sapphire Sleet, describing it as a “shift in the persistent actor’s tactics.” Sapphire Sleet, also called […]

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Alert: ‘Effluence’ Backdoor Persists Despite Patching Atlassian Confluence Servers

Nov 10, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a stealthy backdoor named Effluence that’s deployed following the successful exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. “The malware acts as a persistent backdoor and is not remediated by applying patches to Confluence,” Aon’s Stroz Friedberg Incident […]

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Cyberattack continues to affect operations at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside

A cyberattack continued to affect operations at Tri-City Medical Center more than 24 hours after it began Thursday morning. In a short statement sent Friday afternoon, hospital management said that it has temporarily halted all elective medical procedures as it works “to restore our systems to full functionality,” after taking its information systems offline when […]

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After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down Cloudflare website

After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2023 After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down the website of Cloudflare. Cloudflare confirmed that a DDoS attack took […]

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The New APT Group DarkCasino and the Global Surge in WinRAR 0-Day Exploits

Overview In 2022, NSFOCUS Research Labs revealed a large-scale APT attack campaign called DarkCasino and identified an active and dangerous aggressive threat actor. By continuously tracking and in-depth study of the attacker’s activities, NSFOCUS Research Labs has ruled out its link with known APT groups, confirmed its high-level persistent threat nature, and following the operational […]

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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China dealing with LockBit ransomware attack

One of the world’s largest banks is dealing with a ransomware attack, according to media reports on Thursday. The Financial Times first reported that the state-owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) — China’s biggest, with revenues of $214.7 billion in 2022 — was hit with ransomware this week. The Securities Industry and Financial […]