Cybersecurity
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In the era of digital content, YouTube stands out as one of the primary platforms for video streaming. However, with its massive popularity comes an equally massive scope for cybercrime activities. Stream-jacking attacks on YouTube have surged in recent times, with malefactors focusing on high-profile channels to spread their deceptive narratives. Diving into Details Stream-jacking […]
Global CRM Provider Exposed Millions of Clients’ Files Online Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2023 Researcher discovered that global B2B CRM provider Really Simple Systems exposed online a non-password-protected database with million records. Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained over 3 million records. The documents appeared to be […]
Dive Brief: Cloud-related threats are the top cyber concern for organizations that have adopted the technology, according to a PwC report published Tuesday. The accounting and consulting firm surveyed 3,876 senior business and technology executives. Security concerns intensify for organizations with multiple clouds or hybrid infrastructures, the report found. More than half of respondents in […]
In February 2023, ESET researchers detected a spearphishing campaign targeting a governmental entity in Guyana. While we haven’t been able to link the campaign, which we named Operation Jacana, to any specific APT group, we believe with medium confidence that a China-aligned threat group is behind this incident. In the attack, the operators used a […]
Security researchers have discovered a major new scam operation designed to trick job seekers into parting with cryptocurrency, by getting them to complete meaningless tasks they believe will earn them money. Dubbed “WebWyrm” by CloudSEK, the operation has already targeted more than 100,000 individuals across over 50 countries by impersonating over 1000 companies across 10 […]
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Geo Focus: Asia Nation-State Attacks on Defense Manufacturers Rising Since November 2022 Jayant Chakravarti (@JayJay_Tech) • October 4, 2023 A Daewoo shipyard in the city of Geoje in South Korea (Image: Shutterstock) South Korean national intelligence has sounded alarms about North Korean hackers […]
Governance & Risk Management , Legislation & Litigation , Patch Management Experts Warn Vulnerability Disclosure to Government Agencies Increases Hacking Risk Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • October 4, 2023 Image: Shutterstock More than four dozen cybersecurity mavens say a proposed European Union mandate for software publishers to inform the trading bloc’s cybersecurity agency of […]
AWS said most-privileged users, and eventually more account types, will be required to use multifactor authentication beginning in mid-2024. The move makes the cloud giant the first of the three major hyperscalers to commit to MFA baseline controls by default. “AWS is further strengthening the default security posture of our customers’ environments by requiring the […]
Oct 04, 2023NewsroomCloud Security / Cyber Threat Microsoft has detailed a new campaign in which attackers unsuccessfully attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through an SQL Server instance. “The attackers initially exploited a SQL injection vulnerability in an application within the target’s environment,” security researchers Sunders Bruskin, Hagai Ran Kestenberg, and Fady Nasereldeen […]