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UN Warns of Widespread Online Scams in Southeast Asia The Issue at Hand The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a report highlighting the alarming rise of online scam operations in Southeast Asia. Criminal gangs are exploiting hundreds of thousands of vulnerable individuals, forcing them into carrying out unlawful…
The Evolving Threat of Credential Phishing In today’s interconnected world, where businesses rely heavily on digital platforms and online operations, the threat of cybercrime is more prevalent than ever before. One of the most significant and pervasive dangers is credential phishing, a sophisticated hacking technique that aims to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords,…
The Rise in Dark Web Threat Actors Targeting Macs Introduction In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of Dark Web threat actors targeting Apple Mac computers. Accenture’s threat intelligence unit, Accenture Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI), has reported a tenfold increase in such attacks since 2019, with a significant surge over…
Threat Actors Exploit ChatGPT Popularity to Create Malicious AI Tools Introduction ChatGPT, a generative AI-based app, has gained significant popularity due to its ability to generate human-like text. However, threat actors have taken advantage of this popularity and launched copycat hacker tools like FraudGPT and WormGPT. These tools are designed to promote malicious activities and…
Ransomware Criminals Dumping Kids’ Private Files Online after School Hacks The Disturbing Reality of Ransomware Attacks on Schools The recent surge in ransomware attacks on schools has created a distressing situation where confidential documents, including accounts of student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy, and even suicide attempts, are being stolen and dumped online…
Cyberattacks on K-12 Schools: A Growing Threat Over the past several years, K-12 schools in the United States have become an increasingly attractive target for cyberattacks. These incidents, including ransomware, phishing, and denial-of-service attacks, have caused significant disruption to students, educators, and school systems. From 2016 to 2022, more than 1,600 cyber incidents have been…
South Korean researchers develop DarkBERT for analyzing the Dark Web A team of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology has developed a language model to analyze the Dark Web, a hidden bunch of websites with illegal activities that are difficult for conventional search engines to index. The system, named DarkBERT, has…
Online Predators Target Children’s Webcams: Study Finds A new study by cybercrime and cybersecurity experts has revealed that there has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse imagery created with webcams and other recording devices worldwide since 2019. The study found that social media sites and chatrooms are the most common methods used to facilitate…
Facebook parent company Meta recently revealed that it had thwarted the activity of three advanced persistent threat groups (APTs) in South Asia, which were engaged in cyber espionage, as well as six adversarial groups from various global regions engaged in “inauthentic behavior” on Facebook and other social networks. The company’s takedown of these and other…
ChatGPT-Related Domains Seeing a Rise in Malicious Activities In recent years, hackers have taken advantage of various buzzreplaces such as COVID-19, crypto, and tax season to conduct malicious activities online. With the growing popularity of Open AI and ChatGPT, cybercriminals have now set their sights on these technologies. Check Point Research has revealed that in…