Columbus Day is a federal holiday that Americans celebrate on the second Monday in October. President Roosevelt first made Columbus Day a national holiday in 1934, and Americans celebrated it every October 12th. Then, in 1972, President Nixon changed the day of the holiday to the second Monday in October. In modern times, some schools … Read more
Oct 08, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Malware A little-known threat actor tracked as GoldenJackal has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting embassies and governmental organizations with an aim to infiltrate air-gapped systems using two disparate bespoke toolsets. Victims included a South Asian embassy in Belarus and a European Union government (E.U.) organization, … Read more
Meta cannot target a user’s sexual orientation in its personalized ads — even if they are openly queer and make public statements about the subject, the European Union’s highest court ruled Friday. The case was brought from longtime Meta antagonist Max Schrems, as Wired reports. The Austrian activist, whose separate privacy case recently led to … 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
Hackers are utilizing cloud service assaults as a approach to go after big-money targets within the insurance coverage and monetary industries. Safety professionals with Eclectic IQ stated that an APT identified to defenders as “Scattered Spider” has been looking for to interrupt into company cloud cases as a approach to steal knowledge and ransom its … Read more
