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German agency BSI sinkholed a botnet of 30,000 devices infected with BadBox

The German agency BSI has sinkholed a botnet composed of 30,000 devices shipped with BadBox malware pre-installed. The Federal Office…

1 month ago

U.S. authorities seized cybercrime marketplace Rydox

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the seizure of the cybercrime marketplace Rydox ("rydox.ru" and "rydox[.]cc"). The U.S. Department…

1 month ago

Experts discovered the first mobile malware families linked to Russia’s Gamaredon

The Russia-linked APT Gamaredon used two new Android spyware tools called BoneSpy and PlainGnome against former Soviet states. Lookout researchers linked the BoneSpy…

1 month ago

US Bitcoin ATM operator Byte Federal suffered a data breach

US Bitcoin ATM operator Byte Federal suffered a data breach impacting 58,000 customers, attackers gained unauthorized access to a server…

1 month ago

Experts discovered surveillance tool EagleMsgSpy used by Chinese law enforcement

Chinese law enforcement uses the mobile surveillance tool EagleMsgSpy to gather data from Android devices, as detailed by Lookout. Researchers…

1 month ago

Operation PowerOFF took down 27 DDoS platforms across 15 countries

Operation PowerOFF took down 27 DDoS stresser services globally, disrupting illegal platforms used for launching cyberattacks. A global law enforcement…

1 month ago

Russia’s Secret Blizzard APT targets Ukraine with Kazuar backdoor

Russia-linked APT group Secret Blizzard is using Amadey Malware-as-a-Service to infect systems in Ukraine with the Kazuar backdoor. The Russia-linked APT…

1 month ago

Ivanti fixed a maximum severity vulnerability in its CSA solution

Ivanti addressed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability impacting its Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) solution. Ivanti addressed a critical authentication bypass…

1 month ago

Operation Digital Eye: China-linked relies on Visual Studio Code Remote Tunnels to spy on Europen entities

An alleged China-linked APT group targeted large business-to-business IT service providers in Southern Europe as part of Operation Digital Eye…

1 month ago

Chinese national charged for hacking thousands of Sophos firewalls

The U.S. has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. The U.S. has…

1 month ago

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