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  • Emotet Rises Again: Evades Macro Security via OneNote Attachments
    20 March 2023
    The notorious Emotet malware, in its return after a short hiatus, is now being distributed via Microsoft OneNote email attachments in an attempt to bypass macro-based security restrictions and compromise systems. Emotet, linked to a threat actor tracked as Gold Crestwood, Mummy Spider, or TA542, continues to be a potent and resilient threat despite attempts by law enforcement to take it down. A 
  • Chinese Hackers Exploit Fortinet Zero-Day Flaw for Cyber Espionage Attack
    18 March 2023
    The zero-day exploitation of a now-patched medium-severity security flaw in the Fortinet FortiOS operating system has been linked to a suspected Chinese hacking group. Threat intelligence firm Mandiant, which made the attribution, said the activity cluster is part of a broader campaign designed to deploy backdoors onto Fortinet and VMware solutions and maintain persistent access to victim
  • Pompompurin Unmasked: Infamous BreachForums Mastermind Arrested in New York
    18 March 2023
    U.S. law enforcement authorities have arrested a New York man in connection with running the infamous BreachForums hacking forum under the online alias "Pompompurin." The development, first reported by Bloomberg Law, comes after News 12 Westchester, earlier this week, said that federal investigators "spent hours inside and outside of a home in Peekskill." "At one point, investigators were seen
  • THN Webinar: 3 Research-Backed Ways to Secure Your Identity Perimeter
    18 March 2023
    Think of the typical portrayal of a cyberattack. Bad guy pounding furiously on a keyboard, his eyes peeking out from under a dark hoodie. At long last, his efforts pay off and he hits the right combination of keys. "I'm in!" he shouts in triumph. Clearly, there are many problems with this scenario – and it's not just the hoodie. What's even more inaccurate is that most cyber attackers today do
  • LockBit 3.0 Ransomware: Inside the Cyberthreat That's Costing Millions
    18 March 2023
    U.S. government agencies have released a joint cybersecurity advisory detailing the indicators of compromise (IoCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with the notorious LockBit 3.0 ransomware. "The LockBit 3.0 ransomware operations function as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model and is a continuation of previous versions of the ransomware, LockBit 2.0, and LockBit,"

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