Monthly Archives: March 2024

Iran-Linked MuddyWater Deploys Atera for Surveillance in Phishing Attacks

The Iran-affiliated threat actor tracked as MuddyWater (aka Mango Sandstorm or TA450) has been linked to a new phishing campaign in March 2024 that aims to deliver a legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solution called Atera. The activity, which took place from March 7 through the week of March 11, targeted Israeli entities spanning global manufacturing, […]

China has begun following new guidelines to phase out Windows from govt PCs and servers

China has started implementing new government guidelines to replace foreign technology with domestically produced alternatives across key sectors. The rules, issued jointly by China’s finance ministry and industry regulator in December 2022, require government agencies and party organs to prioritize “safe and reliable” processors, operating systems, and database software from Chinese providers when making IT […]

OpenAI to showcase Sora to Hollywood studios for possible integration into their work

OpenAI is contacting Hollywood studios and executives to explore potential applications of its new AI video generation tool, Sora. Sora is currently unreleased but has garnered attention for its ability to create realistic video clips that are up to one minute long, which could take an hour to generate, based on text descriptions. OpenAI recently held […]

Qualcomm announces that Snapdragon laptops to run PC games without porting to ARM

Qualcomm is making a new push to bring ARM-based laptops to the mainstream. At the Game Developers Conference, Qualcomm announced that upcoming Snapdragon-powered Windows laptops will be able to run x86/64 games at close to full speed using emulation. What does this mean? This means that gamers will be able to play their existing games […]

N. Korea-linked Kimsuky Shifts to Compiled HTML Help Files in Ongoing Cyberattacks

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky (aka Black Banshee, Emerald Sleet, or Springtail) has been observed shifting its tactics, leveraging Compiled HTML Help (CHM) files as vectors to deliver malware for harvesting sensitive data. Kimsuky, active since at least 2012, is known to target entities located in South Korea as well as North America, Asia, […]

German Police Seize ‘Nemesis Market’ in Major International Darknet Raid

German authorities have announced the takedown of an illicit underground marketplace called Nemesis Market that peddled narcotics, stolen data, and various cybercrime services. The Federal Criminal Police Office (aka Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) said it seized the digital infrastructure associated with the darknet service located in Germany and Lithuania and confiscated €94,000 ($102,107)

A hacker’s view of the civic infrastructure: Hashtag Trending, the Weekend Edition for March 23rd, 2024

What does the civic infrastructure look like through the eyes of a hacker? The legendary general Sun Tzu in the Art of War said that in order to defeat your enemy, you must first understand your enemy. How do you do this? He said, “to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.” If we […]