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Chinese Smishing Kit Powers Widespread Toll Fraud Campaign Targeting U.S. Users in 8 States

î „Ravie Lakshmanan Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a “widespread and ongoing” SMS phishing campaign that’s been targeting toll road users in the United States for financial theft since mid-October 2024. “The toll road smishing attacks are being carried out by multiple financially motivated threat actors using the smishing kit developed by ‘Wang Duo Yu,’” Cisco Talos researchers Azim Khodjibaev, Chetan Raghuprasad, and Joey ChenÂ assessedÂ with moderate confidence. TheÂ phishing campaigns, per the […]

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Multi-Stage Malware Attack Uses .JSE and PowerShell to Deploy Agent Tesla and XLoader

î „Ravie Lakshmanan A new multi-stage attack has been observed delivering malware families like Agent Tesla variants, Remcos RAT, and XLoader. “Attackers increasingly rely on such complex delivery mechanisms to evade detection, bypass traditional sandboxes, and ensure successful payload delivery and execution,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researcher Saqib KhanzadaÂ saidÂ in a technical write-up of the campaign. The starting point of the attack is a deceptive email that poses as an order […]

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2025-04-19 Post a Comment

Anonymous Hackers Expose Putinâ€™s Secret Dataâ€”Publish Trump File

ByZak Doffman, TheÂ Anonymous PR machine is in full flight once again, claiming a new cyberattack on Russia â€œin defense of Ukraine.â€ The hacking collective has released a cache of some 10 terabytes, it says, which includes â€œdata on all businesses operating in Russia, all Kremlin assets in the West, pro-Russian officials, Donald Trump, and more These Anonymous hacks donâ€™t have the same impact as in the past, potentially because there […]

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2025-04-19 Post a Comment

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

Jessica Lyons CommentÂ The splintering of the global system for identifying and tracking security bugs in technology products has begun. Earlier this week, the widely used Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program faced doom as the US governmentÂ discontinuedÂ funding for MITRE, the non-profit that operates the program. Uncle Sam U-turned at theÂ very last minute, and promised another 11 months of cash to keep the program going. Meanwhile, the EU is rolling its […]

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2025-02-11 Post a Comment

Huge cyber attack under way – 2.8 million IPs being used to target VPN devices

ByÂ Sead FadilpaÅ¡iÄ‡ Millions of devices, likely infected with malware, are being used in a hacking campaign Researchers spotted brute-force attacks against VPN and other internet-connected devices The majority of the IP addresses are located in Brazil A wide range of Virtual Private Network (VPN) and other networking devices are currently under attack by threat actors trying to break in to wider networks, experts have warned. Threat monitoring platform The […]