U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity agencies have published a new advisory attributing an Iranian cyber group to targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics and compromising a French commercial dynamic display provider to show messages denouncing Israel’s participation in the sporting event. The activity has been pinned on an entity that’s known as Emennet Pasargad, which the agencies … Read more
Oct 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cybercrime The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced arrests and charges against several individuals and entities in connection with allegedly manipulating digital asset markets as part of a widespread fraud operation. The law enforcement action – codenamed Operation Token Mirrors – is the result of the U.S. Federal Bureau … Read more
A large-scale fraud campaign leveraged fake trading apps published on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, as well as phishing sites, to defraud victims, per findings from Group-IB. The campaign is part of a consumer investment fraud scheme that’s also widely known as pig butchering, in which prospective victims are lured into making … Read more
North Korean risk actors have leveraged a pretend Home windows video conferencing software impersonating FreeConference.com to backdoor developer techniques as a part of an ongoing financially-driven marketing campaign dubbed Contagious Interview. The brand new assault wave, noticed by Singaporean firm Group-IB in mid-August 2024, is yet one more indication that the exercise can also be … Read more
In case you see a video advert of Tom Hanks promising you a miracle remedy for one thing, the person himself needs you to know it is a pretend. On Thursday evening, the actor took to Instagram to situation a PSA about AI-generated movies popping up on social media which might be utilizing his picture. … Read more