Would-be hitman busted after being fooled by parody website
A member of the Air National Guard is facing federal charges after applying for a job online as an assassin. According to a Justice Department press release, Josiah Ernesto Garcia from Hermitage, Tennessee, was arrested by an undercover federal agent at a park on April 12, 2023. The FBI affidavit says Garcia was looking for a good-paying job to […]
US Facebook users can now claim Cambridge Analytica settlement cash
US-based Facebook users can now claim a piece of the enormous settlement payment by Meta, Facebook’s parent company, over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This news follows Meta agreeing to pay $725 million in December 2022 to settle the longstanding class action lawsuit filed by Lauren Price in 2018. Price accused the company of unlawful business practices concerning its use […]
From Backup to Backdoor: Exploitation of CVE-2022-36537 in R1Soft Server Backup Manager
Blog updated on 3 March 2023 to (i) remove a table containing data created on 09-01-23, more than one month earlier than publication of the original blog on 22-02-23 entitled ‘Backdoored ConnectWise R1Soft Server Backup Manager by Autonomous System Organization (Top 20 as of 2023-01-09)’; (ii) update a table containing data created on 09-01-23 entitled […]
Threat spotlight: Hydra
This publication is part of our Annual Threat Monitor report that was released on the 8th of Febuary 2023. The Annual threat Monitor report can be found here. Authored by Alberto Segura Introduction Hydra, also known as BianLian, has been one of the most active mobile banking malware families in 2022, alongside Sharkbot and Flubot […]
How AsyncRAT is escaping security defenses
AsyncRat is one of the most popular and open-source remote access trojans. This piece of malware has been used for the last few months by professionals and cybercriminals in their activities. The more decent malicious wave of AsyncRat can escape security defenses by using a specially crafted .bat loader like other trojans, including URSA. Netspoke […]
Goldoson Android Malware Found in 60 Apps with 100M Downloads
By Deeba Ahmed The malware was identified by cybersecurity researchers at McAfee. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Goldoson Android Malware Found in 60 Apps with 100M Downloads
Preventing Malware & Cyber Attacks: Simple Tips for Your Computer
By Owais Sultan Living without the Internet is hardly imaginable today. However, the anonymity of the internet has led to the… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Preventing Malware & Cyber Attacks: Simple Tips for Your Computer
Chrome extensions used to steal users’ secrets
We are living in an era where technology is part of our lives. The usage of utilities to make our daily tasks easier and boost their efficiency and accuracy is an essential factor these days. As a result, new extensions emerge daily, a large volume with good intent and others taking advantage of bad purposes […]
Secure by default: recommendations from the CISA’s newest guide, and how Cloudflare follows these principles to keep you secure
When you buy a new house, you shouldn’t have to worry that everyone in the city can unlock your front door with a universal key before you change the lock. You also shouldn’t have to walk around the house with a screwdriver and tighten the window locks and back door so that intruders can’t pry […]
’Tis the Season for eCrime
Financially motivated criminal activities, aka “eCrime,” happen in waves. They come and go as adversaries develop new tools and target vulnerable victims. Similar to how investors track stock market activity using various indexes, CrowdStrike monitors eCrime using multiple observables and codifies the activity in the CrowdStrike eCrime Index (ECX). While most factors that affect the […]