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Researchers unmasked a two-year-long attack dubbed Operation Layover: the research began with a tweet A lengthy email phishing campaign aimed at the aviation sector was revealed.[1] It all started in May when the Microsoft Security Intelligence team tweeted about travel and aero industries-targeting spear-phishing[2] attacks distributing RevengeRAT/AsyncRAT. Attackers from Nigeria […]

The Trojan analysis lead to the attack on the aviation ...

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The phishing campaign uncovered: companies possibly working with the US Department of Transportation targeted  The two-day phishing attack used a combination – creating new domains that impersonate federal sites and evading email malware detections.[1] Malicious emails targeted various companies in the engineering, energy architecture industries and included messages encouraging them […]

Phishers aim to get Office 365 credentials by impersonating the ...

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Malware abuses Google AdWords and spreads via promotional ads for TeamViewer, Zoom  Users that are currently searching for TeamViewer remote desktop software on search engines like Google are being redirected to malicious links.[1] Those links seem to drop ZLoader malware onto users' systems, and at the same time simultaneously embrace a […]

ZLoader is back: uses ads for spreading and disables Windows ...

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Two major zero-day vulnerabilities were patched to avoid attacks Google has released Chrome 93.0.4577.82 for Windows, Mac, and Linux in the hope to fix eleven security vulnerabilities, two of them being zero-days, exploited in the wild.[1] Company shared the news and said that these exploits are active in the wild. […]

Google Chrome emergency update addresses a total of 11 security ...

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Researchers reveal that the backdoor malware is connected to the group responsible for attacks on Taiwan, Vietnam, U.S organizations The newly researched malware finally linked to the longstanding Chinese espionage operation group named Grayfly.[1] The backdoor was recently found when the malware targeted the computer retail company in the United […]

New Sidewalk malware linked to Grayfly – espionage group from ...

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The biggest attack in Russian internet history carried out by a botnet Russian media reports stated and U.S. researchers confirmed that the DDoS attack targeting Yandex is the largest today.[1] Russian internet giant Yandex is a multinational corporation providing over 70 Internet-related products and services, including transportation, search and information […]

Yandex fighting the massive DDoS attack: services and data not ...

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Vulnerability in Zoom allowed attackers to crack passwords for private meetings and spy on participants Numeric passcode used to secure Zoom private meetings can possibly get cracked in the mater of minutes.[1] Zoom meetings platform have surfaced on security news site first pages a few times already.[2] Tom Anthony[3] reported […]

Yet another Zoom bug: private meeting passwords cracked in minutes

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