A state-sponsored North Korean threat actor tracked as TA406 was recently observed deploying custom info-stealing malware in espionage campaigns. The particular actor is attributed as one of several groups known as Kimsuky (aka Thallium). TA406has left traces …
North Korean cyberspies target govt officials with custom malware Read More »
The privacy-focused tech company’s latest update promises to block invasive data collection across your whole phone. At the end of April, Apple’s introduction of App Tracking Transparency tools shook the advertising industry to its core. …
DuckDuckGo Wants to Stop Apps From Tracking You on Android Read More »
On September 26, 2018, a row of tech executives filed into a marble- and wood-paneled hearing room and sat down behind a row of tabletop microphones and tiny water bottles. They had all been called …
Amazon’s Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data Read More »
Bridges are private Tor relays that serve as stepping stones into the network. When the Tor network is blocked, users can get a bridge to circumvent censorship. Thanks to our community of bridge operators, users …
A malicious campaign has been found leveraging a technique called domain fronting to hide command-and-control traffic by leveraging a legitimate domain owned by the Myanmar government to route communications to an attacker-controlled server with the …
Hackers Targeting Myanmar Use Domain Fronting to Hide Malicious Activities Read More »
Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry describe themselves as two iOS developers and occasional security researchers on two continents. In other words, although cybersecurity isn’t their core business, they’re doing what we wish all programmers …
Apple’s Privacy Protection feature – watch out if you have a Watch! Read More »
There’s some unusual activity brewing on Russian-speaking cybercrime forums, where hackers appear to be reaching out to Chinese counterparts for collaboration. These attempts to enlist Chinese threat actors are mainly seen on the RAMP hacking …
Russian ransomware gangs start collaborating with Chinese hackers Read More »
The Emotet malware kicked into action yesterday after a ten-month hiatus with multiple spam campaigns delivering malicious documents to mailboxes worldwide. Emotet is a malware infection that is distributed through spam campaigns with malicious attachments. …
Here are the new Emotet spam campaigns hitting mailboxes worldwide Read More »
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced Tuesday that it took action against four separate malicious cyber groups from Pakistan and Syria who were found targeting people in Afghanistan, as well as journalists, humanitarian …
Facebook Bans Pakistani and Syrian Hacker Groups for Abusing its Platform Read More »
South Korea’s privacy watchdog leaked personal information relating to participants in a case that sought to probe Facebook’s leak of personal information. “Recently, while handling a Facebook collective dispute mediation case, an accident occurred in …
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has presented an analysis of the evolution of several Iranian threat actors at the CyberWarCon 2021, and their findings show increasingly sophisticated attacks. Since September 2020, Microsoft has been tracking …
Microsoft warns of the evolution of six Iranian hacking groups Read More »
Security researchers have found signs that the pervasive hacking and misinformation campaign comes not from Moscow but from Minsk. For at least four years, the hacking and disinformation group known has Ghostwriter has plagued countries …
‘Ghostwriter’ Looks Like a Purely Russian Op—Except It’s Not Read More »