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2025-01-21 Post a Comment

20th Januaryâ€“ Threat Intelligence Report

TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Hotel management platform Otelier hasÂ sufferedÂ a data breach that resulted in extraction of almost eight terabytes of data. The threat actors compromised companyâ€™s Amazon S3 cloud storage, stealing guestsâ€™ personal information and reservations for major hotel brands like Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt. Global publisher and provider of educational materials Scholastic has been allegedlyÂ breached, leading to theft of data related to its US customers and â€œeducation contactsâ€. The […]

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2024-10-23 Post a Comment

Gophish Framework Used in Phishing Campaigns to Deploy Remote Access Trojans

î „Ravie Lakshmanan Russian-speaking users have become the target of a new phishing campaign that leverages an open-source phishing toolkit called Gophish Framework to deliver DarkCrystal RATÂ (aka DCRat) and a previously undocumented remote access trojan dubbed PowerRAT. “The campaign involves modular infection chains that are either Maldoc or HTML-based infections and require the victim’s intervention to trigger the infection chain,” Cisco Talos researcher Chetan RaghuprasadÂ saidÂ in a Tuesday analysis. The targeting of […]

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2024-10-23 Post a Comment

Sophos Fortifies XDR Muscle With $859M Secureworks Purchase

Michael NovinsonÂ (MichaelNovinson) Sophos plans to make the largest acquisition in its four-decade history, scooping up Secureworks for $859 million to turbocharge its threat intelligence, detection and response. Sophos Fortifies XDR Muscle See Also:Â Webinar | Identity Crisis: How to Combat Session Hijacking and Credential Theft with MDR The Oxford, U.K.-based platform security vendor will combine its managed detection and response services with Atlanta-based Secureworks’ XDR, SIEM and identity detection and response […]

alt=A man in a green hat and shirt is led away by police officers, indicating a law enforcement action. Arrests in international operation targeting cybercriminals in West Africa

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2024-10-20 Post a Comment

Arrests in international operation targeting cybercriminals in West Africa

Global law enforcement unites with INTERPOL to combat cybercrime Arrests in international operation targeting cybercriminals in West Africa Eight individuals have been arrested as part of an ongoing international crackdown on cybercrime, dealing a major blow to criminal operations in CÃ´te dâ€™Ivoire and Nigeria. The arrests were made as part of INTERPOLâ€™s Operation Contender 2.0, an initiative aimed at combating cyber-enabled crimes, primarily in West Africa, through enhanced international intelligence […]

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2024-10-19 Post a Comment

North Korean IT Workers in Western Firms Now Demanding Ransom for Stolen Data

î „Ravie Lakshmanan North Korean information technology (IT) workers who obtain employment under false identities in Western companies are not only stealing intellectual property, but are also stepping up by demanding ransoms in order to not leak it, marking a new twist to their financially motivated attacks. “In some instances, fraudulent workers demanded ransom payments from their former employers after gaining insider access, a tactic not observed in earlier schemes,” Secureworks […]