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. […]
Sep 11, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Malware A new cyber attack campaign is leveraging the PowerShell script associated with a legitimate red teaming tool to plunder NTLMv2 hashes from compromised Windows systems primarily located in Australia, Poland, and Belgium. The activity has been codenamed Steal-It by Zscaler ThreatLabz. “In this campaign, the threat actors steal and […]
Today, CISA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), Multiple Nation-State Threat Actors Exploit CVE-2022-47966 and CVE-2022-42475. This CSA provides information on an incident at an Aeronautical Sector organization, with malicious activity occurring as early as January 2023. CISA, FBI, and CNMF […]
Sep 08, 2023THNZero Day / Cyber Attack Threat actors associated with North Korea are continuing to target the cybersecurity community using a zero-day bug in unspecified software over the past several weeks to infiltrate their machines. The findings come from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which found the adversary setting up fake accounts on social […]
Ransomware gang Dunghill Leak has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack against travel booking company Sabre. Dunghill claimed in a post on its dark web data leaks site that it had stolen 1.3 terabytes of data from Sabre, including corporate financial information, passenger turnover and ticket sales data and personal employee information. The ransomware gang […]
Ransomware gang Dunghill Leak has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack against travel booking company Sabre. Dunghill claimed in a post on its dark web data leaks site that it had stolen 1.3 terabytes of data from Sabre, including corporate financial information, passenger turnover and ticket sales data and personal employee information. The ransomware gang […]
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has announced its new chief technology officer (CTO) will be Ollie Whitehouse. Spun out of spy agency GCHQ in 2016, the NCSC plays a crucial role in advising businesses and consumers about how to avoid emerging threats. It also serves as the National Technical Authority for cybersecurity and works […]
Sep 07, 2023THNBotnet / Cyber Threat A Mirai botnet variant called Pandora has been observed infiltrating inexpensive Android-based TV sets and TV boxes and using them as part of a botnet to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Doctor Web said the compromises are likely to occur either during malicious firmware updates or when applications for […]
The current challenges facing cyber security practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region and where they are focusing their investment decisions in 2023 and beyond Add bookmark Contents About the respondents The current state of cyber security Cyber security threats and challenges Final remarks Foreword As the threat landscape develops, […]