US Treasury Department imposes sanctions on Chinese company over Salt Typhoon hack

The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions on alleged hacker Yin Kechen and cybersecurity company Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co., accusing both of being involved in a series of hacks against American telecom companies. The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)  in US is sanctioning Yin Kecheng, a Shanghai-based cyber…

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Kaspersky Experts Identify New Ransomware using BitLocker to encrypt corporate data

Kaspersky has identified ransomware attacks using Microsoft’s BitLocker to attempt encryption of corporate files. The threat actors are using VBScript – a programming language used to automate tasks on Windows computers – to create a malicious script with previously unreported features to maximize the damage of the attack, Kaspersky Global Emergency Response team reports. The…

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Have you Noticed Job’s Adds Roaming Around Facebook; Beaware of Ov3r_Stealer’ Malware

Recently as I was going through my Facebook , I noticed that lot of job advertisement for various position mainly account manager. As I applied they send back queries asking for mobile number and What’s Up messages. Researchers first discovered the stealer in early December. It was being spread via a Facebook job advertisement for…

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