Month: September 2023

Sep 11, 2023THNCyber Espionage / Malware The Iranian threat actor known as Charming Kitten has been linked to a new wave of attacks targeting different entities in Brazil, Israel, and the U.A.E. using a previously undocumented backdoor named Sponsor. Slovak cybersecurity firm is tracking the cluster under the name Ballistic Bobcat. Victimology patterns suggest that
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In this article ORCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chairman and technology chief, speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on September 16, 2019. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Oracle shares moved about 5% lower in extended trading on Monday after the database software maker disclosed fiscal first-quarter revenue
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Sep 11, 2023THNMalware / Social Media A new phishing attack is leveraging Facebook Messenger to propagate messages with malicious attachments from a “swarm of fake and hijacked personal accounts” with the ultimate goal of taking over the targets’ accounts. “Originating yet again from a Vietnamese-based group, this campaign uses a tiny compressed file attachment that
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The price and positioning of the Apple Watch range makes it aspirational and perhaps a bit too expensive for many of us, but what it has done is make smartwatches more desirable on the whole. The result of this is a flourishing budget smartwatch segment, supported by various brands leveraging their expertise in smartphones and
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An artificial intelligence (AI) based approach demonstrated diagnostic performance comparable to experienced radiologists in detecting gall bladder cancer at a hospital in Chandigarh, according to a study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia journal. Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is a highly aggressive malignancy with a poor detection and a high mortality rate. Early
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Sep 11, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Malware A new cyber attack campaign is leveraging the PowerShell script associated with a legitimate red teaming tool to plunder NTLMv2 hashes from compromised Windows systems primarily located in Australia, Poland, and Belgium. The activity has been codenamed Steal-It by Zscaler ThreatLabz. “In this campaign, the threat actors steal and
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Google Chrome is making a new ad platform available to most users via its ‘Privacy Sandbox’, the company announced on Thursday. The search giant previously announced that it plans to phase out support for third party cookies that are used to track people as they browse the web. Instead, the company has built a browser-based advertising
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Sep 08, 2023THNZero Day / Cyber Attack Threat actors associated with North Korea are continuing to target the cybersecurity community using a zero-day bug in unspecified software over the past several weeks to infiltrate their machines. The findings come from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which found the adversary setting up fake accounts on social
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