Cybersecurity
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Sep 12, 2023THNCritical Infrastructure Security A threat actor called Redfly has been linked to a compromise of a national grid located in an unnamed Asian country for as long as six months earlier this year using a known malware referred to as ShadowPad. “The attackers managed to steal credentials and compromise multiple computers on the […]
Investigations have begun into a massive ransomware attack that has affected Sri Lanka’s government cloud system, Lanka Government Cloud (LGC). The investigation is being conducted by the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team and Coordination Center (CERT|CC). Sri Lanka’s Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) confirmed the attack to several local news outlets on September […]
Sep 12, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Malware A sophisticated phishing campaign is using a Microsoft Word document lure to distribute a trifecta of threats, namely Agent Tesla, OriginBotnet, and OriginBotnet, to gather a wide range of information from compromised Windows machines. “A phishing email delivers the Word document as an attachment, presenting a deliberately blurred image […]
British authorities have arrested a man who reportedly spied for China at the heart of the government in London, sparking fresh fears over how Beijing gathers intelligence. The incident follows allegations earlier this year that China flew a surveillance balloon over the United States, causing a diplomatic furore. Here are some of the ways China has worked to […]
Google on Monday released an emergency Chrome 116 security update to patch the fourth zero-day vulnerability discovered in the browser in 2023. Tracked as CVE-2023-4863 and rated ‘critical severity’, the bug is described as a heap buffer overflow issue in the WebP component. WebP is an image format that provides improved compression and quality compared […]
One of Myanmar’s biggest and most powerful ethnic minority militias has arrested and repatriated more than 1,200 Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations, an official of the group said Saturday. The arrests were carried out in territory controlled by the United Wa State Army, or UWSA, in eastern Shan state in raids […]
Digital information exchange can be safer, cheaper and more environmentally friendly with the help of a new type of random number generator for encryption developed at Linköping University. Experimental setup of the quantum random number generator. The yellow squares on the glass plate are the perovskite LEDs. Photo by Magnus Johansson. The researchers behind the […]
Sending an email with a forged address is easier than previously thought, due to flaws in the process that allows email forwarding, according to a research team led by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego. The issues researchers uncovered have a broad impact, affecting the integrity of emails sent from tens of […]
China has unveiled a new cyber capability powered by artificial intelligence, enabling the automatic generation of images for influence operations. These operations aim to mimic US voters across the political spectrum, fueling controversy along racial, economic and ideological lines. The findings come from a new report released by Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) on Thursday. […]