Saturday, July 13, 2019
Amazon Prime Day Sale starts tomorrow: 12 tips to get the best deals and discounts
A look at Estonia's four and half year old e-residency program, which now has 55,000 e-residents and is unlikely to attain its original goal of 10M by 2025 (Kalev Aasmae/ZDNet)
A look at Estonia's four and half year old e-residency program, which now has 55,000 e-residents and is unlikely to attain its original goal of 10M by 2025 — Instead of the goal of gaining 10 million e-residents by 2025, Estonia is now focusing on security and usability.
TrickBot is back with a new attack that has compromised 250 million email addresses
The TrickBot malware has returned with a new attack that may have compromised around 250 million email addresses. Earlier this year TrickBot worked side-by-side the Ryuk ransomware to siphon millions of dollars for hackers, and now it is back again in less than a year. According to a report by Deep Instinct, a cybersecurity company, a new variant of TrickBot was revealed that joins forces with a malicious, email-based infection and distribution module named TrickBooster. The malware now has new capabilities such as stealing cookies.
The method for the attack hasn’t undergone too much change from previous methods, at least at the beginning of the attack. TrickBot infiltrates a victim’s computer and then the malware makes the machine download TrickBooster. This, in turn, reports back to a dedicated command and control server with a list of email addresses and log-in details which are gathered from the victim’s Inbox, Outbox and Address Book. After this, the TrickBooster server orders the infected machine to send malicious infection and spam emails. All these emails are then deleted from the Outbox and Trash so that the victim doesn’t realise the threat.
Deep Instinct investigated TrickBooster and its network infrastructure to find a database comprising of 250 million email addresses that were gathered by TrickBot operators. These email accounts were also, in all likeliness, targeted with the malicious emails. An email dump was recovered and this included about 26 million email accounts on Gmail, 19 million on Yahoo, 11 million on Hotmail, 7 million on AOL, 3.5 million on MSN, and 2 million on Yahoo U.K. Further investigation revealed that the compromised accounts involved several government departments and agencies in the US which included the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and more. There were also some government organisations and universities affected in the UK and Canada.
According to Deep Instinct, the discovery of TrickBot “highlights the success and sophistication of TrickBot”. The model of attack was described as “a powerful addition to TrickBot’s vast arsenal” of attacking methods. According to reports, the cybersecurity company stated that they are continuing their research and analysis in TrickBooster, and they will also be reporting details of the new TrickBot attack to the authorities.
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Profile of Meiya Pico, which claims a 40% share of the digital forensics market in China and which is believed to be linked to a spy app used by Chinese police (South China Morning Post)
Profile of Meiya Pico, which claims a 40% share of the digital forensics market in China and which is believed to be linked to a spy app used by Chinese police — Meiya claims a 40 per cent share of the digital forensics market in mainland China Net profit was US$44 million last year …
Friday, July 12, 2019
RPF 2019 – Constable (Group A) Final Merit List Released
How companies like Kenworth, ZF, and Team Inc., are using HoloLens and Microsoft Teams for employee training, and communication with frontline workers (Karen Weise/New York Times)
How companies like Kenworth, ZF, and Team Inc., are using HoloLens and Microsoft Teams for employee training, and communication with frontline workers — CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — When Toby Bouska Jr. started assembling cabs for Kenworth semitrucks last year, he learned the ropes by observing longtime workers at the factory.
Indian Coast Guard 2019 – Navik (DB) 10th Entry (02/2019) Batch Select List Released
South Indian Bank Admit Card 2019 – Probationary Clerk & Officer Call Letter Download
Indian Coast Guard 2019 – Navik (DB) 10th Entry 02/2019 Select List Released
Indian Coast Guard Navik Result 2019 – 10th Entry (02/2019 Batch) Select List Released
Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...
