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An unsettlingly lifelike Google Search "malvertising" campaign was misusing Google ads. (Photo : ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images) Malwarebytes, a cybersecurity company, revealed on Thursday that it had found a "major" malvertising campaign that was misusing Google ads.
Threat actors already are exploiting vulnerability, dubbed ‘Follina’ and originally identified back in April, to target organizations in Russia and Tibet, researchers said.
North Korean-backed hacking group Lazarus has added the Windows Update client to its list of living-off-the-land binaries (LoLBins) and is now actively using it to execute malicious code on Windows systems.
APT Group Kimsuky Has New Attack Technique, Researchers Say Compliance @prajeetspeaks) • June 9, 2021 Get Permission Researchers at Malwarebytes have uncovered the latest tactics, techniques and procedures used by the North Korean threat group Kimsuky, also known as Thallium, Black Banshee and Velvet Chollima, as it continues to launch espionage attacks. This time it is using an AppleSeed backdoor. The Kimsuky group, which has been active since 2012, primarily focuses on government entities in South Korea, but...
The Mauritian government is considering plans to monitor and censor social media by intercepting web traffic. In a consultation document (PDF), the country’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) calls for “harmful and illegal contents” to be removed. To achieve this, it says, “It is important to segregate… all incoming and outgoing internet traffic in Mauritius, social media traffic, which will then need to be decrypted, re-encrypted and archived for inspection purposes as and when required.” While freedom of speech is guaranteed under Mauritius’s constitu...