www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2020/11/21/manchester-united-shuts-down-systems-to-fend-off-a-sophisticated-cyber-attack/?sh=2759d59b4b60 Its not often that you find cybersecurity headlines on sports websites, but you will this weekend. Manchester United, the third most valuable soccer team in the world, announced yesterday that its network had been breached by hackers.
Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French intelligence confirms www.theguardian.com/news/2021/aug/02/pegasus-spyware-found-on-journalists-phones-french-intelligence-confirms Announcement is first time an independent and official authority has corroborated Pegasus project findings ‘I will not be silenced’: Women targeted in hack-and-leak attacks speak out about spyware www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/i-will-not-be-silenced-women-targeted-hack-leak-attacks-n1275540 Female journalists and activists say they had their private photos shared on social media by governments […]
Jian The Chinese Double-edged Cyber Sword blog.checkpoint.com/2021/02/22/jian-the-chinese-double-edged-cyber-sword/ In the last few months, Check Point Research (CPR) focused on recent Windows Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) exploits attributed to Chinese actors. An LPE is used by attackers to acquire Administrator rights on a Windows machine. During this investigation, our malware and vulnerability researchers managed to unravel the […]
Emotet malware takes part in the 2020 U.S. elections www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/emotet-malware-takes-part-in-the-2020-us-elections/ Emotet is now taking part in the United States 2020 Presidential election with a new spam campaign pretending to be from the Democratic National Convention’s Team Blue initiative. XDSpy cyber-espionage group operated discretely for nine years www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/xdspy-cyber-espionage-group-operated-discretely-for-nine-years/ Researchers at ESET today published details about a […]