June 8, 2022

Telegram to Soon Launch its Premium Plan at $4.99 per Month Telegram is one of the best cross-platform messaging apps and it is regularly updated with new features. The privacy-focused social media platform is now working on a new subscription-based project dubbed “Telegram Premium”. Unlike Meta-owned social media platforms, Telegram is Read more…

US Seizes SSNDOB Market for Selling Personal Info of 24 million People SSNDOB, an online marketplace that sold the names, social security numbers, and dates of birth of approximately 24 million US people, has been taken offline following an international law enforcement operation. The operation was conducted by the FBI, Read more…

US: Chinese Govt Hackers Breached Telcos to Snoop on Network Traffic US: Chinese Govt Hackers Breached Telcos to Snoop on Network Traffic Several US federal agencies today revealed that Chinese-backed threat actors have targeted and compromised major telecommunications companies and network service providers to steal credentials and harvest data. As Read more…

New SVCReady Malware Loads from Word Doc Properties A previously unknown malware loader named SVCReady has been discovered in phishing attacks, featuring an unusual way of loading the malware from Word documents onto compromised machines. More specifically, it uses VBA macro code to execute shellcode stored in the properties of Read more…

Qbot Malware Now Uses Windows MSDT zero-day in Phishing Attacks A critical Windows zero-day vulnerability, known as Follina and still waiting for an official fix from Microsoft, is now being actively exploited in ongoing phishing attacks to infect recipients with Qbot malware. Proofpoint first reported Monday that the same zero-day Read more…

Linux Version of Black Basta Ransomware Targets VMware ESXi Servers Black Basta is the latest ransomware gang to add support for encrypting VMware ESXi virtual machines (VMs) running on enterprise Linux servers. Most ransomware groups are now focusing their attacks on ESXi VMs since this tactic aligns with their enterprise Read more…

Windows 11 22H2 Closer to Release, Lands in the Release Channel Microsoft has moved Windows 11, version 22H2, to the Windows Insider Release channel, indicating that it is in its final round of testing before it’s likely released this fall. Windows 11 22H2, aka Sun Valley 2, is the operating Read more…

Online Gun Shops in the US Hacked to Steal Credit Cards Two two American gun shops,  Rainier Arms and Numrich Gun Parts, that operate e-commerce sites have disclosed data breaches resulting from card skimmer infections on their sites. Credit card skimmers are malicious JavaScript code either embedded on the sites or Read more…

Shields Health Care Group Data Breach Affects 2 million Patients Shields Health Care Group (Shields) suffered a data breach that exposed the data of approximately 2,000,000 people in the United States after hackers breached their network and stole data. Shields is a Massachusetts-based medical services provider specializing in MRI and PET/CT diagnostic Read more…