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ExCobalt Cyber Gang Targets Russian Sectors with New GoRed Backdoor
Russian organizations have been targeted by a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt using a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed. “ExCobalt focuses on cyber espionage and includes several members active since at least 2016 and presumably once part of the notorious Cobalt Gang,” Positive Technologies researchers Vladislav Lunin and Alexander Badayev said in a technical…
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Warning: New Adware Campaign Targets Meta Quest App Seekers
A new campaign is tricking users searching for the Meta Quest (formerly Oculus) application for Windows into downloading a new adware family called AdsExhaust. “The adware is capable of exfiltrating screenshots from infected devices and interacting with browsers using simulated keystrokes,” cybersecurity firm eSentire said in an analysis, adding it identified the activity earlier this…
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U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kaspersky Executives Amid Software Ban
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions against a dozen individuals serving executive and senior leadership roles at Kaspersky Lab, a day after the Russian company was banned by the Commerce Department. The move “underscores our commitment to ensure the integrity of our cyber domain and to protect…
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Under Armour agrees to pay $434M to settle lawsuit
The lawsuit dates back to 2017, during Kevin Plank’s first stint as CEO.
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PGE’s Pope, new board chair for national utility trade group, faces questions
Senators question PGE’s Pope on EEI’s challenge of a Biden administration rule limiting climate gas emissions from fossil fuel power plants.
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Synergy India Ventures hires three ex-Nike employees for C-suite
Synergy has offices in Portland, India and Taiwan.
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Strike prompts more accusations between nurses union and Providence
About 3,000 nurses on Tuesday kicked off a three-day strike at six Providence hospitals around Oregon.
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Nike sued, accused of ‘scheme to defraud’ shareholders over DTC strategy
This lawsuit alleges that Nike and two of its leaders didn’t properly disclose certain aspects of its direct-to-consumer strategy.
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Chinese Hackers Deploy SpiceRAT and SugarGh0st in Global Espionage Campaign
A previously undocumented Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed SneakyChef has been linked to an espionage campaign primarily targeting government entities across Asia and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) with SugarGh0st malware since at least August 2023. “SneakyChef uses lures that are scanned documents of government agencies, most of which are related to various countries’ Ministries
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Military-themed Email Scam Spreads Malware to Infect Pakistani Users
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new phishing campaign that has been identified as targeting people in Pakistan using a custom backdoor. Dubbed PHANTOM#SPIKE by Securonix, the unknown threat actors behind the activity have leveraged military-related phishing documents to activate the infection sequence. “While there are many methods used today to deploy malware, the…
