On Wednesday afternoon New South Wales (NSW) police unit has disclosed an apparent ransomware attack on the New South Wales labor party. Global cybercriminals group has given a 10 days timeline to the labor party to pay a ransom or else the illicitly accessed credentials will be put into the public domain including driver’s licenses, images of passports, and employment contracts.According to the data, the ransomware operational group named Avaddon, which emerged in Russia is found to be behi [...]

A smishing campaign which goes by the name Roaming Mantis is imitating a logistics firm to hack SMS messages and contact list of Android users from Asia since 2018. Last year, Roaming Mantis advanced its campaign impact by sending phishing URL messages and dynamic DNS services that attacked targets with duplicate Chrome extension "MoqHao." From the start of 2021, Mcafee Mobile Research Team has confirmed that the group is attacking users from Japan with the latest malware named SmsSpy. The co [...]

 Qakbot, also known as QBot or Pinkslipbot, is a banking trojan that has been active since 2007. It has been primarily used by financially motivated actors, initially it was known as a banking Trojan and a loader using C2 servers for payload delivery; however, over time as the scope widened, its use also expanded beyond strictly being a banking trojan. Security researchers at Alien Labs have noticed a newly emerged campaign in which victims are targeted with malicious email lures that appear [...]

 Security scientists who believe that a weakness that can be used to insert malicious code mostly on mobile by using the Android operating system itself as a port of entry has recently been reported as a grave security flaw concerning Qualcomm mobile station modems (MSM). The impacted chip(s) would connect nearly 40% of all smartphones, such as Samsung and other OEM's high-end phones, in the world. Qualcomm MSM is a 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G-capable Chip System (SoC) used by several vendors, such as [...]