An alert released by the FBI and CISA warns that the SolarWinds hackers have abused an email marketing service to send malicious emails to 350 organizations.
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Google is seeing fresh threats from a North Korean government cyber group.
This comes after Google’s Threat Analysis Group in January documented a hacking campaign targeting cyber security researchers.
The hackers’ modus operandi is to build credibility by targeting legitimate researchers, according to Google.
As described by Google in January, the actors set up a research blog and multiple Twitter profiles to interact with researchers and used the profiles to post links to their blog and post videos of their claimed exploits. Exploit refers to code that takes advantage of a software or security flaw. Google is seeing fresh threats from a North Korean government cyber group..
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A new study by pCloud has labelled Instagram as the most invasive mobile application, followed by Instagram’s parent company Facebook. Leaky apps and the information potentially available from such apps are not new and they provide opportunities and threats for commercial entities, hackers, law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The pCloud study, reported by The Independent, emerged in part due to the Apple Store applying labels to every app in a bid to increase transparency and allow users to decide whether to install an app once they know what their data may be used for. Online footprint management is a vital part of OSINT tradecraft that can be learnt on Janes OSINT courses.
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in Brief It was a tsunami of DNS queries that ultimately took out a host of Microsoft services, from Xbox Live to Teams, for some netizens about an hour on April Fools Day, Redmond has said.
Or as the Windows giant put it, the outage was the result of an anomalous surge in DNS queries from across the globe targeting a set of domains hosted on Azure. In a postmortem examination of the downtime, Microsoft said the flood of requests triggered a programming flaw in its infrastructure that hampered its ability to cope with the demand: