I wrote about the potential of scams around the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria last week: Earthquake = Scams – Smart Thinking Solutions Now the BBC has a report that looks at the scams that are happening: Scammers profit from Turkey-Syria earthquake – BBC News These people know no …
Earthquake = Scams
There has been a terrible series of earthquakes in Syria and Turkey – so expect the amount of scam traffic email, texts and websites to leap up in the coming days as the scammers take advantage of people’s suffering and other’s compassion. This article by Johannes Ullrich has some very …
Turkish Malware
The trick with this one is that it will delay installation to avoid detection: Turkish malware used to infect machines in 11 countries through fake Google Translate links – The Record by Recorded Future It appears to be a Google Translate or mp3 downloader link, and has infected machines across …
Zero-day targeted attack against journalists using Google Chrome
This attack was highly targeted, using spyware from an Israeli cyber weapons company Candiru. To get the spyware onto the target machines the threat actors exploited, what was then, a zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome. Zero-day used to infect Chrome users could pose threat to Edge and Safari users, too …
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Journalists are among the targets of state sponsored hacking and espionage
This is an interesting story from Cedric Pernet at TechRepublic looking at the types of threats and attacks faced by journalists: State-sponsored cyberespionage campaigns continue targeting journalists and media | TechRepublic It gives you an idea of the investment in time, money and technical resources state sponsored hacking groups make. …
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