Tag: actors

Microsoft patches zero-days used by state-sponsored and ransomware threat actors (CVE-2023-23397, CVE-2023-24880)

Microsoft patches zero-days used by state-sponsored and ransomware threat actors (CVE-2023-23397, CVE-2023-24880)

Felix - December 12, 2023
It’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft has delivered fixes for 76 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited in the wild (CVE-2023-23397, CVE-2023-24880) by different threat actors. About CVE-2023-23397 “CVE-2023-23397 is a critical EoP vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook that is...
U.S. Government Puts Pressure on Chinese State-Sponsored Actors

U.S. Government Puts Pressure on Chinese State-Sponsored Actors

Felix - June 10, 2022
SAN FRANCISCO - National Security Agency (NSA) Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce mentioned on Wednesday that U.S. authorities are combatting Chinese state-sponsored actors by a long-term technique that's “outcome-driven, alliance-centric and intentionally sequenced to impose price.” China has turn into a...
Trend Micro : Partners With Interpol and Nigeria’s EFCC for Operation Killer Bee, Takes Down Nigerian BEC Actors

Trend Micro : Partners With Interpol and Nigeria’s EFCC for Operation Killer Bee, Takes Down Nigerian BEC Actors

Felix - June 2, 2022
Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested three suspected scammers from Nigeria who have been concerned in world scamming campaigns by way of a sting operation that's a part of Operation Killer Bee. The operation was led by Interpol...
Feds Post $10 Million Reward for Conti Ransomware Actors

Feds Post $10 Million Reward for Conti Ransomware Actors

Felix - May 7, 2022
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime 2nd $5m reward for conviction of precise or potential Conti incident members Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • May 7, 2022     Rewards Posted For Conti Leaders, Owners, Operators,...

Inside the Ring: Chinese cyber actors pose ‘major threat’ to U.S. national security

Felix - July 21, 2021
Malicious cyber operations performed by Chinese authorities hackers pose a big risk to American national security, in accordance to a report by three U.S. security companies. “The National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Federal Bureau of...

DDoS disrupts Belgian parliament. New malware strains in criminal campaign. Threat actors vs. MFA. Disinformation for business.

Felix - May 5, 2021
Attacks, Threats, and VulnerabilitiesBelgian public-sector network suffers cyberattack, affecting parliament (Computing) The assault disrupted a deliberate assembly of Belgian's Foreign Affairs, which had been because of talk about the human rights state of affairs in XinjiangXSS in the wild: JavaScript-stuffed...