Brazil Halts Meta’s AI Data Processing Amid Privacy Concerns

04/07/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Brazil’s data protection authority, Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD), has temporarily banned Meta from processing users’ personal data to train the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The ANPD

Global Police Operation Shuts Down 600 Cybercrime Servers Linked to Cobalt Strike

04/07/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

A coordinated law enforcement operation codenamed MORPHEUS has felled close to 600 servers that were used by cybercriminal groups and were part of an attack infrastructure associated with the Cobalt

Twilio’s Authy App Breach Exposes Millions of Phone Numbers

04/07/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Cloud communications provider Twilio has revealed that unidentified threat actors took advantage of an unauthenticated endpoint in Authy to identify data associated with Authy accounts, including users’ cell phone numbers.

The Emerging Role of AI in Open-Source Intelligence

03/07/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Recently the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) unveiled a new strategy for open-source intelligence (OSINT) and referred to OSINT as the “INT of first resort”. Public and

Microsoft MSHTML Flaw Exploited to Deliver MerkSpy Spyware Tool

03/07/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Unknown threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched security flaw in Microsoft MSHTML to deliver a surveillance tool called MerkSpy as part of a campaign primarily targeting users in

FakeBat Loader Malware Spreads Widely Through Drive-by Download Attacks

03/07/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The loader-as-a-service (LaaS) known as FakeBat has become one of the most widespread loader malware families distributed using the drive-by download technique this year, findings from Sekoia reveal. “FakeBat primarily

Israeli Entities Targeted by Cyberattack Using Donut and Sliver Frameworks

03/07/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an attack campaign that targets various Israeli entities with publicly-available frameworks like Donut and Sliver. The campaign, believed to be highly targeted in nature, “leverage target-specific

South Korean ERP Vendor’s Server Hacked to Spread Xctdoor Malware

03/07/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

An unnamed South Korean enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor’s product update server has been found to be compromised to deliver a Go-based backdoor dubbed Xctdoor. The AhnLab Security Intelligence Center

How MFA Failures are Fueling a 500% Surge in Ransomware Losses

02/07/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The cybersecurity threat landscape has witnessed a dramatic and alarming rise in the average ransomware payment, an increase exceeding 500%. Sophos, a global leader in cybersecurity, revealed in its annual

New Intel CPU Vulnerability ‘Indirector’ Exposes Sensitive Data

02/07/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Modern CPUs from Intel, including Raptor Lake and Alder Lake, have been found vulnerable to a new side-channel attack that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from the processors.