A fresh wave of job scams is spreading on Meta’s Facebook platform that aims to lure users with offers for remote-home positions and ultimately defraud them by stealing their personal data and banking credentials. Researchers from Qualys are warning of “ongoing attacks against multiple brands” offering remote work through Facebook ads that go so far […]
Jan 06, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Attack The recent wave of cyber attacks targeting Albanian organizations involved the use of a wiper called No-Justice. The findings come from cybersecurity company ClearSky, which said the Windows-based malware “crashes the operating system in a way that it cannot be rebooted.” The intrusions have been attributed to an Iranian […]
Festival set for fifth edition, in May 2024 Erykah Badu and Madlib (DJ set) are among the next wave of names added to the bill for 2024’s Cross The Tracks festival, at Brockwell Park, London on Sunday May 26, 2024. The other names confirmed today are Venna, Iniko, Neal Francis, Brainstory, Yazmin Lacey (DJ), Mackwood, […]
Dec 04, 2023NewsroomRansomware / Cyber Attack Microsoft has warned of a new wave of CACTUS ransomware attacks that leverage malvertising lures to deploy DanaBot as an initial access vector. The DanaBot infections led to “hands-on-keyboard activity by ransomware operator Storm-0216 (Twisted Spider, UNC2198), culminating in the deployment of CACTUS ransomware,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team […]
A new wave of Balada malware injection attacks has been found exploiting a vulnerable tagDiv premium theme plugin to target Newspaper and Newsmag websites. The flaw in the question is an unauthenticated XSS vulnerability in the plugin that was first disclosed in September. The plugin is used by over 135,000 users, which emphasizes the risk […]
Sep 28, 2023THNMalware / Cyber Threat Government and telecom entities have been subjected to a new wave of attacks by a China-linked threat actor tracked as Budworm using an updated malware toolset. The intrusions, targeting a Middle Eastern telecommunications organization and an Asian government, took place in August 2023, with the adversary deploying an improved […]
An Iranian state-backed APT group carried out a “wave” of cyber-espionage attacks against thousands of global targets over a six-month period, Microsoft has revealed. The group known as Peach Sandstorm (aka APT33, Elfin, and Refined Kitten) used password spraying techniques between February and July 2023. This is a brute-force technique where threat actors try to […]
The pick of the week SINGLE OF THE WEEK Malcolm McLaren – Call A Wave (remixes) (Be With)I’m almost inarguably turning into an old fart, a disco grandad in the making if you will. But, regardless of my steadily advancing years and the accompanying sense of jadedness that I’m doing my best to temper, whenever […]