Alphabet Inc.’s Google filed a lawsuit against a suspected Chinese cybercrime operation, alleging that the group used artificial intelligence to send more than 2 million text messages with fraudulent links attempting to scam cellphone users. Known as the Outsider Enterprise, the organization targeted hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. in an effort to...Read More
UFC commentator Daniel Cormier has claimed that he got ‘hacked or something’ concerning his now-deleted X post related to US President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump ahead of last night’s UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House. Hours before UFC Freedom 250, Cormier took to social media to post screenshots of his DM exchange...Read More
The video game industry has increasingly become a prime target for cybercriminals. While individual players often find themselves in the crosshairs, major corporations like Nintendo are also under constant threat. A recent report suggests that the gaming company has fallen victim to yet another security breach, resulting in the theft of sensitive information. A hacker...Read More
Canberra’s Horizon 2 Action Plan, released on 11 June, and the Department of Home Affairs’ March acceptance of Jill Slay’s independent review of the Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act are both serious attempts to move Australia from an architecture of compliance to an architecture of resilience. That shift is necessary. When Medibank was breached...Read More
Hackers are increasingly abusing trusted cloud services to evade detection, and a newly uncovered campaign demonstrates how Microsoft Teams infrastructure can be weaponized to hide malicious traffic. According to the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, a new Go-based remote access Trojan (RAT) named Backdoor.TURN leverages Microsoft Teams TURN relay servers to disguise command-and-control (C2) communications as legitimate...Read More
Former U.S. secretary of homeland security and current special envoy to the Shield of the Americas Kristi L. Noem has been hired by a British Columbia mineral exploration company. In a release on its website, NovaRed Mining Inc., whose head office is located in Vancouver, said Noem has joined the company in a “strategic advisory...Read More
SEOUL, June 17 (Yonhap) — South Korea became the fourth country to forge a security partnership in artificial intelligence (AI) with OpenAI, the developer behind ChatGPT, according to the science ministry Wednesday. Under a memorandum of understanding, South Korea’s AI safety institute (AISI) and OpenAI will work together to prepare a global framework to evaluate...Read More
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sophisticated DragonForce ransomware attack in which hackers used Microsoft Teams infrastructure to hide malicious communications and evade detection. Quick Summary – TLDR: DragonForce ransomware operators used a custom malware called Backdoor.Turn to conceal command and control traffic. The malware abused Microsoft Teams TURN relay infrastructure, making malicious activity appear as...Read More
OCALA, Fla. (CBS12) — Fifty-eight suspected child predators were arrested after a five-day undercover operation in Marion County in which investigators posed as children as young as 7 online, Florida authorities said. The suspects allegedly engaged in sexually explicit conversations and arranged meetings despite being told they were communicating with minors, law enforcement officials announced...Read More
Chinese police have cracked a series of cybercrime cases involving a new variant of the Silver Fox Trojan virus that has recently emerged in cyberspace, the Ministry of Public Security”s cybersecurity bureau said on Tuesday. The Trojan virus is highly deceptive and mainly targets employees of enterprises and public institutions, particularly finance personnel, the bureau...Read More
