A Nigerian man was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 60 months in prison for his role in fraudulent business email compromise (BEC) scams, the United States Department of Justice announced this week. The man, Onyekachi Emmanuel Opara, 30, of Lagos, Nigeria, was charged for defrauding thousands of victims of more […]
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China-linked APT10 group behind new attacks on the Japanese media sector
Recently researchers from FireEye uncovered and blocked a campaign powered by the Chinese APT10 cyber espionage group aimed at Japanese media sector In July, security researchers from FireEye uncovered and blocked a campaign carried out by Chinese APT10 group (aka Menupass, and Stone Panda) aimed at Japanese media sector. Experts noticed the […]
Ransomware Attack Hits Bristol Airport, Flight Display Screens Went Offline
Ransomware attack at the Bristol Airport in UK takes the flight display screens offline. The computers running the flight information display screen’s are affected. The incident likely took place on Friday morning which affected all the flight information display screen and the Airport staffs using Whiteboard to provide flight details. […]
Veeam Publicly Exposed 445 Million Customers Records Of its Marketing Database
Data Management Company’s misconfigured MongoDB server exposed its marketing database that contains around 445 million its customer records. Veeam, a company that develops backup, disaster recovery and intelligent data management software for virtual, physical and cloud-based infrastructures. Exposed data contains more than 200 gigabytes of customer records, mostly names, email addresses, and in […]
Chinese Cyber Espionage Group APT10 Delivers UPPERCUT Backdoor Via Malicious Word Documents
Chinese cyber espionage group APT10 know for targeting construction and engineering, aerospace, and telecom firms, and governments agencies in United States, Europe, and Japan. With the current campaign, the espionage group targeting Japanese entities through spear phishing emails with password-protected Microsoft Word documents that contain malicious VBA macros. Once the […]
Cobalt crime gang is using again CobInt malware in attacks on former soviet states
The Russian Cobalt crime gang was particularly active in the last month, a new report confirms a massive use of the CobInt malware in recent attacks. Security researchers from Proofpoint reported the massive use of the CobInt malware by the Cobalt group in recent attacks. The Cobalt name is based […]
Kelihos Botnet Author Pleads Guilty in U.S. Court
Peter Yuryevich Levashov, a 38-year-old Russian national accused of operating the notorious Kelihos botnet, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to computer crime, fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges. Levashov, aka “Petr Levashov,” “Peter Severa,” “Petr Severa” and “Sergey Astakhov,” is said to have operated several botnets between the late 1990s and […]
Un piratage massif compromet l’identité de 1 milliard d’Indiens
Les données biométriques et les informations personnelles de 1 milliard d’Indiens ont été piratées, a révélé mardi le HuffPost India, au terme d’une enquête de trois mois. Ces données étaient contenues dans une banque de données gouvernementale mal conçue. La banque de données Aadhaar, gérée par le ministère de l’Électronique et des […]
Police searching for suspects after ATM stolen from Sask. bank
Mounties are investing after a theft and an attempted theft of ATMs from two banks in Saskatchewan. The attempted theft happened early Sunday morning from a bank on James Street in Lumsden, Sask. Police say two or three suspects used a pick-up truck to try to remove the ATM when […]
L’armée américaine investit 2 milliards de dollars dans l’intelligence artificielle
« La prochaine étape dans la guerre impliquera des systèmes autonomes de plus en plus efficaces, mais avant que nous puissions permettre à de telles machines de collaborer avec des soldats, elles doivent devenir bien plus intelligentes. » C’est pour cette raison que la Darpa (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), l’agence de recherche de l’armée des Etats-Unise, a annoncé vendredi 7 septembre un […]