An alliance of technology companies announced on Monday that it had orchestrated a takedown of the TrickBot malware botnet. The organizations that took part in the takedown included Microsoft’s Defender team, FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, NTT, and Broadcom’s cyber-security division Symantec. Prior to the takedown were probes from Continue Reading
The “Five Eyes” alliance along with government representatives for India and Japan, have demanded that technology companies insert “backdoors” in encrypted apps to give LEAs the access they say needed to police online delinquency. In a statement, the officials of the US, India, Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Japan said that Continue Reading
This week, the United States announced that it captured as many as 92 domain names that an Iran-linked rival was leveraging in a worldwide propaganda drive. It said that four of the domains appeared to be authentic news outlets, but they were controlled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Continue Reading
It is learnt that a new fileless attack method that exploits the Microsoft Windows Error Reporting (WER) service is the handiwork of an unknown hacking group. The attack vector, as per Malwarebytes security researchers Hossein Jazi and Jérôme Segura, hinges on malware interring itself in WER-based executables to dodge igniting Continue Reading
On Tuesday, technology giant Google released Chrome 86 to the stable channel, and this new release comprises many security improvements and new APIs for developers. Each new Chrome release typically focuses on a chief theme. For instance, Chrome 84 focused on UI repairs, while Chrome 85 fixated on speed and Continue Reading
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