- China again claims Volt Typhoon cyber-attack crew was invented by the US to discredit it
October 15, 2024
Chinese authorities have published another set of allegations that assert the Volt Typhoon cyber-crew is an invention of the US and its allies, and not a crew run by Beijing. Published on Monday in five languages, a document titled “Lie to Me: Volt Typhoon III – Unravelling Cyberespionage and Disinformation Operations Conducted by US Government Agencies” ...
- Beyond the Surface: the evolution and expansion of the SideWinder APT group
October 15, 2024
SideWinder, aka T-APT-04 or RattleSnake, is one of the most prolific APT groups that began its activities in 2012 and was first publicly mentioned by us in 2018. Over the years, the group has launched attacks against high-profile entities in South and Southeast Asia. Its primary targets have been military and government entities in Pakistan, ...
- Sri Lanka arrests over 230 Chinese in cybercrime raids
October 15, 2024
Sri Lankan police have arrested more than 230 Chinese men accused of targeting international banks in online scams, the foreign minister said on Tuesday (Oct 15), with help from security officials sent by Beijing. Vijitha Herath said police raids over the past week had also seized 250 computers and 500 mobile phones used in the alleged ...
- Fake attachment. Roundcube mail server attacks exploit CVE-2024-37383 vulnerability.
October 15, 2024
In September 2024, threat intelligence experts from the Positive Technologies Security Expert Center (PT ESC) discovered an email sent to a governmental organization belonging to a CIS country. Timestamps indicate that the email was sent back in June 2024. The email appeared to be a message without text, containing only an attached document. However, the email ...
- Whispers from the Dark Web Cave. Cyberthreats in the Middle East
October 14, 2024
The Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence team analyzed cybersecurity threats coming from dark web cybercriminals who targeted businesses and governments in the Middle East in H1 2024. Our research highlights the most severe and pervasive threats, and identifies potential risks and consequences as well as defensive strategies. The five prevalent cybersecurity threats in the Middle East covered ...
- Cyber Attack Hits French Leading News Agency AFP
October 14, 2024
French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) suffered a cyber attack that disrupted its content delivery infrastructure and file transfer systems. It operates English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, and Spanish news channels and employs over 2,400 people in 150 countries. AFP said it was working to restore impacted systems and has engaged French cybersecurity agency ANSSI and law ...
- Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer
October 14, 2024
The research team, led by Wang Chao from Shanghai University, found that D-Wave’s quantum computers can optimize problem-solving in a way that makes it possible to attack encryption methods such as RSA. In a potentially alarming development for global cybersecurity, Chinese researchers have unveiled a method using D-Wave’s quantum annealing systems to crack classic encryption, potentially ...
- Pokémon hack exposes future games, beta designs and more
October 14, 2024
Pokémon developer Game Freak has confirmed its servers were hacked in August. The breach meant internal materials — from source codes to early and even scrapped character designs — were circulating on social media over the weekend. Leaked documents and images flooded Reddit and X after Centro Leaks began dumping it all on Saturday afternoon. It ...
- How did a ‘bank snooping’ scandal ensnare politicians in Italy?
October 14, 2024
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is at the centre of a “snooping scandal” in which a bank branch employee at Italy’s biggest bank is alleged to have illegally accessed and “spied on” thousands of private accounts. A clerk at Banca Intesa Sanpaolo has been accused of gaining unauthorised access to more than 3,500 accounts belonging to ...
- London taxi drivers wrongly hit with Ulez charges after TfL cyber attack
October 13, 2024
Thousands of black cab drivers have been wrongly hit with Ulez and Congestion Charge fines after the cyber attack against London’s transport authority. The Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association (LTDA) said it had received thousands of calls this week from panicking cabbies who had begun receiving automated penalties from Transport for London (TfL). Read more… Source: MSN News Sign up ...
- Over 77,000 customers’ personal information is exposed in Fidelity Investments data breach
October 12, 2024
Fidelity Investments reported in a filing with Maine’s attorney general that an unnamed third party accessed information from its systems using two recently established customer accounts. It did not say how the creation of two Fidelity customer accounts allowed access to the data of thousands of other customers. The breach occurred between Aug. 17 and 19 ...