Spring Dragon is a long running APT actor that operates on a massive scale. The group has been running campaigns, mostly in countries and territories around the South China Sea, since as early as 2012. The main targets of Spring Dragon attacks are high profile governmental organizations and political parties, education institutions such as universities, as well as companies from the telecommunications sector.
In case you were wondering why a fish tank needs to be connected to the Internet, it’s because the casino wanted to do everything remotely, with employees using a remote connection to feed the fish and get all the information instantly, such as water temperature. But it was this connection that exposed the fish tank, and eventually, the entire casino, to hackers, as an unnamed...
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Do you value your Facebook account? Have you linked your phone number to your Facebook account? You could lose access to it if you aren’t careful, according to James Martindale, who discovered a worrisome Facebook authentication vulnerability. Facebook encourages you to give it your phone number “to help secure your account”, and you can link multiple numbers to your account. That means that you –...
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As cyber crime reaches new levels with new malware & viruses being realized online on a daily basis it also becomes apparent that the increase in DDoS tools that require no apparent skills to use them, just providing the IP address it is possible to launch the attack. These tools are becoming more and more available on the Internet.
Recently, Fireball malware has garnered a lot of attention by claiming to have spread to 250 million computers. Upon execution, Fireball installs a browser hijacker as well as any number of adware programs. Several different sources have linked different indicators of compromise (IOCs) and varied payloads, but a few details remain the same. In this blog, we will be detailing the Fireball threat and many...
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