CapCut Users Beware: Phishing Sites Distributing Malware
By Deeba Ahmed If you use TikTok, you must be aware of CapCut. However, did you know that this app is being abused by threat actors to drop malware and carry out phishing scams through not one, but a series of malicious sites? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CapCut Users […]
EU Regulators Hit Meta with Record $1.3 Billion Fine for Data Transfer Violations
Facebook’s parent company Meta has been fined a record $1.3 billion by European Union data protection regulators for transferring the personal data of users in the region to the U.S. In a binding decision taken by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), the social media giant has been ordered to bring its data transfers into […]
DarkBERT: Enhancing Cybersecurity Efforts on the Dark Web
By Habiba Rashid DarkBERT is based on the RoBERTa architecture and leverages the power of AI to navigate the dark web. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DarkBERT: Enhancing Cybersecurity Efforts on the Dark Web
Indonesian Cybercriminals Exploit AWS for Profitable Crypto Mining Operations
A financially motivated threat actor of Indonesian origin has been observed leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances to carry out illicit crypto mining operations. Cloud security company’s Permiso P0 Labs, which first detected the group in November 2021, has assigned it the moniker GUI-vil (pronounced Goo-ee-vil). “The group displays a preference for Graphical
Bad Magic’s Extended Reign in Cyber Espionage Goes Back Over a Decade
New findings about a hacker group linked to cyber attacks targeting companies in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict area reveal that it may have been around for much longer than previously thought. The threat actor, tracked as Bad Magic (aka Red Stinger), has not only been linked to a fresh sophisticated campaign, but also to an activity cluster that […]
Are Your APIs Leaking Sensitive Data?
It’s no secret that data leaks have become a major concern for both citizens and institutions across the globe. They can cause serious damage to an organization’s reputation, induce considerable financial losses, and even have serious legal repercussions. From the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal to the Equifax data breach, there have been some pretty high-profile […]
Mastermind Behind iSpoof Fraud Website Sentenced to 13 Years in the UK
By Waqas The founder of iSpoof is named Tejay Fletcher and is from the Western Gateway area of London, England. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mastermind Behind iSpoof Fraud Website Sentenced to 13 Years in the UK
Sharing your business’s data with ChatGPT: How risky is it?
The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. As a natural language processing model, ChatGPT – and other similar machine learning-based language models – is trained on huge amounts of textual […]
U.K. Fraudster Behind iSpoof Scam Receives 13-Year Jail Term for Cyber Crimes
A U.K. national responsible for his role as the administrator of the now-defunct iSpoof online phone number spoofing service has been sentenced to 13 years and 4 months in prison. Tejay Fletcher, 35, of Western Gateway, London, was awarded the sentence on May 18, 2023. He pleaded guilty last month to a number of cyber offenses, including facilitating fraud […]
KeePass Exploit Allows Attackers to Recover Master Passwords from Memory
A proof-of-concept (PoC) has been made available for a security flaw impacting the KeePass password manager that could be exploited to recover a victim’s master password in cleartext under specific circumstances. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-32784, impacts KeePass versions 2.x for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and is expected to be patched in version 2.54, which is likely to […]