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Chinese APT’s favorite vulnerabilities revealed

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Chinese APT

Tags: advanced persistent threat

Tags: APT

Tags: CISA

Tags: NSA

Tags: FBI

Tags: security advisory

CISA, the NSA and the FBI have compiled a list of the vulnerabilities targeted by state-sponsorted threat actors from China.

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Warning issued about Vice Society ransomware targeting the education sector

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: FBI

Tags: CISA

Tags: StopRansomware

Tags: Vice Society

Tags: HelloKitty

Tags: SonicWall

Tags: PrintNightmare

Tags: LAUSD

The FBI, CISA, and the MS-ISAC have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory after observing Vice Society threat actors disproportionately targeting the education sector with ransomware attacks.

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Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 15:41:09 +0000

Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters.  In this case, the woman figured out she was being scammed before embarking for the bank, but her story is a chilling reminder of how far crooks will go these days to rip people off.

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Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:35:28 +0000

U.S. state and federal investigators are being inundated with reports from people who’ve lost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in connection with a complex investment scam known as “pig butchering,” wherein people are lured by flirtatious strangers online into investing in cryptocurrency trading platforms that eventually seize any funds when victims try to cash out.

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