May 2023

Sophisticated DownEx Malware Campaign Targeting Central Asian Governments 10/05/2023 at 17:22 By Government organizations in Central Asia are the target of a sophisticated espionage campaign that leverages a previously undocumented strain of malware dubbed DownEx. Bitdefender, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said the activity remains active, with evidence likely pointing to the involvement of Russia-based […]

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Why Honeytokens Are the Future of Intrusion Detection 10/05/2023 at 15:00 By A few weeks ago, the 32nd edition of RSA, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity conferences, wrapped up in San Francisco. Among the highlights, Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant at Google Cloud, presented a retrospective on the state of cybersecurity. During his keynote, Mandia

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Mastermind Behind Twitter 2020 Hack Pleads Guilty and Faces up to 70 Years in Prison 10/05/2023 at 14:47 By A U.K. national has pleaded guilty in connection with the July 2020 Twitter attack affecting numerous high-profile accounts and defrauding other users of the platform. Joseph James O’Connor, who also went by the online alias PlugwalkJoe,

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U.S. Government Neutralizes Russia’s Most Sophisticated Snake Cyber Espionage Tool 10/05/2023 at 12:20 By The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the court-authorized disruption of a global network compromised by an advanced malware strain known as Snake wielded by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). Snake, dubbed the “most sophisticated cyber espionage tool,” is the handiwork of a Russian

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Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday Fixes 38 Flaws, Including Active Zero-Day Bug 10/05/2023 at 09:26 By Microsoft has rolled out Patch Tuesday updates for May 2023 to address 38 security flaws, including one zero-day bug that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) said the volume is the lowest since August 2021,

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