World Cyber News

Security researchers at AlienVault uncovered a series of cyber attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges leveraging weaponized Hangul Word Processor HWP documents (Hangul Word Processor documents). The string of attacks involving the HWP documents has been attributed to the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group, and includes the hack of the South Korean virtual currency […]

Palo Alto Networks experts uncovered a new operation conducted by the cyber espionage group known as Tick APT that has been targeting a secure USB drive built by a South Korean defense company.  The Tick APT group has been active for at least a decade, tracked also as Bronze Butler, it was […]

The UK-based privacy group Big Brother Watch revealed that the British tax agency HMRC has recorded the voice of over 5.1 million Britons. The UK-based privacy and civil liberties group Big Brother Watch has revealed that the British tax agency HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) has recorded the voice […]

Alphabet owned cybersecurity firm Chronicle announced the launch of a new VirusTotal service that promises to reduce false positives.  VirusTotal Monitor service allows developers to upload their application files to a private cloud store where they are scanned every day using anti-malware solutions from antivirus vendors in VirusTotal. Every time the service […]

The popular flight tracking service Flightradar24 has discovered a data breach that affected one of its servers. The company notified the incident to its users via email and asked them to change their passwords, affected users’ passwords have been reset. FlightRadar24 promptly reported the incident to the Swedish Data Protection Authority in […]

Symantec’s artificial intelligence-based Targeted Attack Analytics uncovers new wide-ranging espionage operation. One of the most significant developments in cyber espionage in recent years has been the number of groups adopting “living off the land” tactics. That’s our shorthand for the use of operating system features or legitimate network administration tools […]

ZeroFont phishing attack – Crooks are using a new technique that involves manipulating font sizes to bypass Office 365 protections. According to cloud security firm Avanan, one of the detection mechanisms in Office 365 involves natural language processing to identify the content of the messages typically used in malicious emails. […]

Olympic Destroyer, the malicious code that was used in attacks against Winter Games in Pyeongchang, was involved in a new wave of cyber attacks. The same malware used in recent Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, tracked as Olympic Destroyer, has been used in a new wave of attacks against organizations in Germany, […]

Just weeks after Korean exchange Coinrail was hacked, the Bithumb crypto exchange was hacked, crooks stole over $30 million in cryptocurrency. It has happened again, for the second time in a year, the cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has been hacked. The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange confirmed that hackers stole 35 billion won […]