Mar 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Malware The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of a new campaign that targets the defense sectors with Dark Crystal RAT (aka DCRat). The campaign, detected earlier this month, has been found to target both employees of enterprises of the defense-industrial complex and individual representatives of the … Read more
North American drivers are continuing to be barraged by waves of scam text messages, telling them that they owe money on unpaid tolls. Last month we described on Hot for Security how US authorities had issued a warning about SMS phishing attacks from scammers posing as tolling agencies. For instance, Texas-based audience producer Gwen Howerton … Read more
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory, numerous Black people across the country reported receiving a racist text message from an unknown sender, according to news accounts and screenshots shared on social media. Mashable confirmed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation that the agency had learned of such reports. “The FBI is aware of … Read more
