Cybercriminals are taking advantage of people’s fears about online dating by getting them to download fake “verification” apps that allow them to steal information and money. The FBI published a warning on Friday about the scam, noting that it was akin to an offshoot of romance scams and pig butchering schemes that have proliferated in […]
Feb 09, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Cryptocurrency Sixty-one banking institutions, all of them originating from Brazil, are the target of a new banking trojan called Coyote. “This malware utilizes the Squirrel installer for distribution, leveraging Node.js and a relatively new multi-platform programming language called Nim as a loader to complete its infection,” Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky […]
Proofpoint has warned recruiters of a skilled threat actor targeting them with emails designed to deploy malware. TA4557 is a financially motivated threat actor known to distribute the More_Eggs backdoor, which is designed to establish persistence, profile the targeted machine and drop additional payloads. Throughout 2022 and most of 2023 the actor has been replying to […]
The notorious Akira ransomware group has claimed two more victims, adding them to its list of Akira ransomware attacks. The claims were posted on a dark web forum where the threat actor boldly claimed the attack. However, upon inspection of both victim websites, it was evident that the ransomware attack had not impacted the front […]
Nansen stopped the malicious activity shortly after the affected vendor informed them about the incident, but the ensuing investigation confirmed that user data was compromised.
These packages have unconventional names and some of them do not follow naming guidelines. While not all of them pose a security risk, they could potentially cause confusion or break software development tooling.
Quantum networking connects systems and transmits data among them using quantum phenomena. This concept differs from classical network technology based on photon or electron transmission. Currently, commercial quantum networking mainly refers to quantum-secured networks. These data networks use conventional methods, such as TCP/IP over fiber and copper, for data transmission, while using a parallel quantum […]
Data centers — and the fleets of hot, always-on and power-hungry servers within them — produce a lot of heat. Admins are constantly working to ensure equipment doesn’t overheat or break down due to nonoptimal heat and humidity levels, but some data centers are reusing their heat, instead of dispelling it. Heat from data centers […]