Cybersecurity

Google sues crypto investment app makers over alleged massive “pig butchering” scam

Two China-based Android app developers are being sued by Google for an alleged scam targeting 100,000 users worldwide through fake cryptocurrency and other investment apps. The company is taking action after scammers reportedly tricked victims with bogus promises of high returns from Android apps offering cryptocurrency investment opportunities. At least 87 fake apps on Google […]

Cybersecurity

China-Linked Hackers Target Myanmar’s Top Ministries with Backdoor Blitz

Jan 30, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Espionage The China-based threat actor known as Mustang Panda is suspected to have targeted Myanmar’s Ministry of Defence and Foreign Affairs as part of twin campaigns designed to deploy backdoors and remote access trojans. The findings come from CSIRT-CTI, which said the activities took place in November 2023 and January […]

Cybersecurity

Outlook Breach: Microsoft Reveals How a Crash Dump Led to a Major Security Breach

Sep 07, 2023THNCyber Attack / Email Hacking Microsoft on Wednesday revealed that a China-based threat actor known as Storm-0558 acquired the inactive consumer signing key to forge tokens and access Outlook by compromising an engineer’s corporate account. This enabled the adversary to access a debugging environment that contained information pertaining to a crash of the […]