FBI Dismantle the Notorious Qakbot Infrastructure Used For Ransomware Attacks

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The FBI and the Justice Department have declared a global effort to disrupt and dismantle the Qakbot infrastructure, which is utilized in ransomware attacks. More than 700,000 victim computers were …

Peripherals on the Rise: Don’t Let Deviant Devices Dismantle your Cyber-Defense

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Although the use of peripheral devices has risen to unparalleled rates in the post-pandemic period, many organizations have failed to increase their cybersecurity efforts to match this usage. Do you …

Multiple Flaws in VMware Aria Operations Let Attackers Bypass Authentication

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As per reports, VMware has been reported with two critical vulnerabilities that could allow threat actors to perform an authentication bypass and gain arbitrary write access on VMware Aria Operations …

OpenAI Released ChatGPT Enterprise With SOC 2 Compliant & Data Encryption

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Several reports have indicated data leakage from ChatGPT ever since its release by the Microsoft-backed OpenAI in November 2022. Additionally, threat actors have been abusing the platform to gain unauthorized …

U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections

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The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement …

Hackers using HTML Smuggling Technique to Deliver Ransomware and Evade Detection

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Threat actors adopt the highly invasive techniques of HTML smuggling to launch  Nokoyawa ransomware despite being delivered through macro and ICedID malware. The Nokoyawa Ransomware variant has been active since …

How Hackers Abusing ChatGPT Features For Their Cybercriminal Activities – Bypass Censorship

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Media and frequent innovative releases aggressively fuel the rapid industry rise of generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) ChatGPT.  But, besides its innovative part, cybercriminals have also actively exploited these generative AI …

DreamBus Botnet Exploiting RCE Flaw in Apache RocketMQ Servers

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A vulnerability affecting Apache RocketMQ servers was publicly disclosed in May 2023, allowing remote code execution through a gateway. RocketMQ is a cloud-native platform for messaging and streaming. The command …

Tor Announces Proof-of-Work Defense to Defend Against DoS Attacks

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Tor (The Onion Router) has officially introduced a Proof-of-Work (PoW) mechanism to defend from attackers doing Denial of Service attacks. Users worldwide have widely adopted Tor for hiding their IP …