Google Unveils RETVec – Gmail’s New Defense Against Spam and Malicious Emails

02/12/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

Google has revealed a new multilingual text vectorizer called RETVec (short for Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer) to help detect potentially harmful content such as spam and malicious emails in Gmail. “RETVec is trained

Zero-Day Alert: Apple Rolls Out iOS, macOS, and Safari Patches for 2 Actively Exploited Flaws

02/12/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

Apple has released software updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari web browser to address two security flaws that it said have come under active exploitation in the wild on older versions

Zyxel Releases Patches to Fix 15 Flaws in NAS, Firewall, and AP Devices

02/12/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

Zyxel has released patches to address 15 security issues impacting network-attached storage (NAS), firewall, and access point (AP) devices, including three critical flaws that could lead to authentication bypass and

U.S. Treasury Sanctions North Korean Kimsuky Hackers and 8 Foreign-Based Agents

02/12/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday sanctioned the North Korea-linked adversarial collective known as Kimsuky as well as eight foreign-based agents who

WhatsApp’s New Secret Code Feature Lets Users Protect Private Chats with Password

02/12/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

Meta-owned WhatsApp has launched a new Secret Code feature to help users protect sensitive conversations with a custom password on the messaging platform. The feature has been described as an “additional way to protect

Discover How Gcore Thwarted Powerful 1.1Tbps and 1.6Tbps DDoS Attacks

02/12/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

The most recent Gcore Radar report and its aftermath have highlighted a dramatic increase in DDoS attacks across multiple industries. At the beginning of 2023, the average strength of attacks reached 800 Gbps, but now,

Chinese Hackers Using SugarGh0st RAT to Target South Korea and Uzbekistan

02/12/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

A suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor has been attributed to a malicious campaign that targets the Uzbekistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and South Korean users with a remote access trojan called SugarGh0st

Qakbot Takedown Aftermath: Mitigations and Protecting Against Future Threats

02/12/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI recently collaborated in a multinational operation to dismantle the notorious Qakbot malware and botnet. While the operation was successful in disrupting

New FjordPhantom Android Malware Targets Banking Apps in Southeast Asia

02/12/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new sophisticated Android malware called FjordPhantom that has been observed targeting users in Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam since early September 2023. “Spreading primarily

Okta Discloses Broader Impact Linked to October 2023 Support System Breach

29/11/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

Identity services provider Okta has disclosed that it detected “additional threat actor activity” in connection with the October 2023 breach of its support case management system. “The threat actor downloaded the names