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Costa Rica’s State-Owned Energy Company Hit With Ransomware
Costa Rica’s state-owned energy company, RECOPE, experienced a ransomware attack on November 27, 2024, forcing a shift to manual operations for fuel distribution. The incident disrupted digital payment systems, prompting…
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Amazon’s Plan for ‘Ultracluster’ Supercomputer
Amazon is collaborating with Anthropic, an AI company, to develop one of the world’s most powerful AI supercomputers, known as Project Rainer. This supercomputer will utilize hundreds of thousands of…
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Storm-1811: Hacking RMM Tools To Spread Ransomware
The cybercriminal group Storm-1811 has been exploiting remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools, such as Microsoft’s Quick Assist, to deploy Black Basta ransomware. They initiate attacks by flooding victims’ inboxes…
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Horns&Hooves: Campaign Targets Users and Retailers with RATs via Fake Emails
The “Horns&Hooves” campaign, active since March 2023, has targeted over 1,000 victims—primarily private users, retailers, and service businesses in Russia—by distributing remote access trojans (RATs) like NetSupport RAT and BurnsRAT.…
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SpyLoan: 8 Million Android Users Targeted by Malicious Apps
Over 8 million Android users have been affected by malicious loan applications, collectively termed “SpyLoan,” available on the Google Play Store. These 15 apps, identified by McAfee Labs, deceptively promise…
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Rockstar 2FA: A New Phishing-as-a-Service Threat Targeting Microsoft 365 Accounts
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named ‘Rockstar 2FA’ has emerged, enabling large-scale adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attacks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials. This service allows attackers to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA) by…
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EBT Hacking: Millions Stolen from Vulnerable Recipients
Millions of dollars have been stolen from Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) accounts in a widespread hacking scheme, affecting vulnerable recipients like Frances Jacobson of Mobile, Alabama, who lost nearly all…
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Beware: Cybercriminals Cloning Shopping Sites This Holiday Season
Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting online holiday shopping activities by launching sophisticated cyberattacks, such as phishing, website cloning, and RCE (Remote Code Execution) exploits, to steal sensitive information, including financial data.…
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Massive Data Breach Exposes 600K Records at SL Data Services
A security breach at SL Data Services, LLC, operating under Propertyrec, exposed over 600,000 sensitive records online, including court records, vehicle records, and property ownership reports in 644,869 unencrypted and…
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Chinese ship is suspected of sabotaging undersea internet cables.
A Chinese cargo ship, Yi Peng 3, is suspected of deliberately dragging its anchor for over 100 miles on the Baltic seabed, damaging undersea internet cables connecting Sweden, Finland, Germany,…
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