Month: February 2023

Feb 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Cyber Threat Suspected North Korean nation-state actors targeted a journalist in South Korea with a malware-laced Android app as part of a social engineering campaign. The findings come from South Korea-based non-profit Interlab, which coined the new malware RambleOn. The malicious functionalities include the “ability to read and leak
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Instagram, the social media platform owned by Meta Platforms, is rolling out a broadcast chat feature called Channels, the company’s boss Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday. “I’m starting a channel to share news and updates on all the products and tech we’re building at Meta,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. “It will be the
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Feb 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananIoT Security / Cyber Attack A new variant of the notorious Mirai botnet has been found leveraging several security vulnerabilities to propagate itself to Linux and IoT devices. Observed during the second half of 2022, the new version has been dubbed V3G4 by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which identified three different
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Feb 16, 2023Ravie LakshmananAdvanced Persistent Threat The prolific SideWinder group has been attributed as the nation-state actor behind attempted attacks against 61 entities in Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka between June and November 2021. Targets included government, military, law enforcement, banks, and other organizations, according to an exhaustive report published by Group-IB, which
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