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Lifeboat Blog » Cybercrime/Malcode
2d ago
A major cybersecurity incident has exposed sensitive personal, medical and financial records of more than half a million Americans. In a data breach notification, the Office of the Maine Attorney General says the California-based non-profit organization NorthBay Healthcare Corporation experienced an external system breach affecting 569,012 Americans. In a notice sent to affected people, NorthBay ..read more
Lifeboat Blog » Cybercrime/Malcode
2d ago
Sandworm’s BadPilot campaign exploits eight security flaws to infiltrate global critical sectors, enabling persistent access for cyber espionage opera. Read more | > ..read more
Lifeboat Blog » Cybercrime/Malcode
6d ago
The transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing about major changes in the worlds of business and cybersecurity. Source: Forbes. #artificialintelligence #cybersecurity #Business Read more | > ..read more
Lifeboat Blog » Cybercrime/Malcode
6d ago
Your smartphone gallery may contain photos and screenshots of important information you keep there for safety or convenience, such as documents, bank agreements, or seed phrases for recovering cryptocurrency wallets. All of this data can be stolen by a malicious app such as the SparkCat stealer we’ve discovered. This malware is currently configured to steal ..read more
Lifeboat Blog » Cybercrime/Malcode
6d ago
Your smartphone gallery may contain photos and screenshots of important information you keep there for safety or convenience, such as documents, bank agreements, or seed phrases for recovering cryptocurrency wallets. All of this data can be stolen by a malicious app such as the SparkCat stealer we’ve discovered. This malware is currently configured to steal ..read more
Lifeboat Blog » Cybercrime/Malcode
6d ago
Devices across the world are being abused. Read more | > ..read more
Lifeboat Blog » Cybercrime/Malcode
6d ago
In today’s AI news, the OpenAI commercial, developed under new CMO Kate Rouch, deliberately avoids mentioning AGI or superintelligence, which are at the core of OpenAI’s mission. “We want the message to feel relevant to the audience that is watching the Super Bowl, which includes tens of millions of people who have no familiarity with ..read more
Lifeboat Blog » Cybercrime/Malcode
1w ago
Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. Go to our sponsor https://aura.com/sciencephile to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed. Aura just launched their new \. Read more | > ..read more
Lifeboat Blog » Cybercrime/Malcode
1w ago
In the incident analyzed by the Canadian cybersecurity company, the initial access was gained to a targeted endpoint via a vulnerable SimpleHelp RMM instance (“194.76.227[.]171”) located in Estonia. Upon establishing a remote connection, the threat actor has been observed performing a series of post-exploitation actions, including reconnaissance and discovery operations, as well as creating an ..read more
Lifeboat Blog » Cybercrime/Malcode
1w ago
Morphisec CTO Michael Gorelik told The Hacker News that there is evidence connecting the two activity clusters, and that the deceptive Chrome installer site was previously leveraged to download the Gh0st RAT payload. “This campaign specifically targeted Chinese-speaking users, as indicated by the use of Chinese-language web lures and applications aimed at data theft and ..read more