July 28, 2021
Cybercriminals may target 2020 Tokyo Olympics, FBI warns
“Adversaries could use social engineering and phishing campaigns in the lead up to the event to obtain access or use previously obtained access to implant malware to disrupt affected networks during the event. Social engineering and phishing campaigns continue to provide adversaries with the access needed to carry out such attacks,” the federal law enforcement agency warned.
July 20, 2021
VPN service favored by cybercriminals are forced to shutdown
DoubleVPN’s services were mainly promoted on Russian and English language underground hacking and cybercriminal forums, offering anonymity by hiding the identities and locations of various types of scammers, fraudsters, and even ransomware operators.
July 15, 2021
Don’t feed the trolls and other tips for avoiding online drama
The cybercriminals sometimes engage in “trollish” behavior such as posting controversial content. However, their comments are usually accompanied with links masquerading as a “source” that proves their point, but could even be laced with malware.
July 14, 2021
Most health apps engage in unhealthy data harvesting habits
Most health apps engage in unhealthy data harvesting habits. As many as 88 percent of almost 21,000 mobile health (mHealth) applications that are accessible on the Google Play Store from Australia include code that can access and even share users’ personal data with third parties, an analysis by the Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub in Sydney has found.
June 30, 2021
Gaming industry under siege from cyberattacks during pandemic
Recycling and using simple passwords make credential stuffing such a constant problem and effective tool for criminals. A successful attack against one account can compromise other account with same username and password combination used.
June 13, 2021
BackdoorDiplomacy attacks diplomats in Africa and the Middle East
BackdoorDiplomacy shares tactics, techniques, and procedures with other Asia-based groups. Turian likely represents a next stage evolution of Quarian, the backdoor last observed in use in 2013 against diplomatic targets in Syria and the United States.
May 30, 2021
Acer ME announces updates to its Predator Triton 300
Acer Middle East has announced updates to its popular Predator Triton 300, Predator Helios 300 and Nitro 5 series of gaming notebooks, all of which have been refreshed to take advantage of the latest 11th Gen Intel® Core™ H-series processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptop GPUs.