Check Point Research encountered an Android Banking Malware named FakeCalls, a malware that can masquerade as one of more than 20 financial applications and imitate phone conversations with bank or financial service employees – this attack is called voice phishing. FakeCalls malware targeted the South Korean market and possesses the functionality of a Swiss army […]
Royal Ransomware
Backed by threat actors from Conti, Royal ransomware is poised to wreak havoc in the threat landscape, starting strong by taking a spot among the most prolific ransomware groups within three months since it was first reported. Combining new and old techniques and quick evolution, it is likely to remain a big player in the […]
Fake ChatGPT Chrome Extension Hijacking Facebook Accounts
A Chrome Extension propelling quick access to fake ChatGPT functionality was found to be hijacking Facebook accounts and installing hidden account backdoors. Particularly noticeable is the use of a malevolent silently forced Facebook app “backdoor” giving the threat actors super-admin permissions. By hijacking high-profile Facebook business accounts, the threat actor creates an elite army of […]
Tips And Best Practices For Small Business Email Management
One of my friends, Janet, is a classic example of why you need email management in your business. She constantly receives hundreds of emails at work. One day, she had an important client presentation in the afternoon. But the client sent her an email the previous night rescheduling the meeting to the early morning instead. […]
Malvertising in Google Search Results Delivering Stealers
Kaspersky observes a growth in malvertising activity that exploits Google search ads to promote fake software websites that deliver stealers, such as RedLine and Rhadamantys. The treat actors create copies of legit software websites while employing typosquatting (exploiting incorrectly spelled popular brands and company names as URLs) or combosquatting (using popular brands and company names […]
Chinese Espionage Attack on South East Asian Gov
At the beginning of 2021, Check Point Research identified an ongoing surveillance operation they named Sharp Panda that was targeting Southeast Asian government entities. The attackers used spear-phishing emails to gain initial access to the targeted networks. These emails typically contained a Word document with government-themed lures that leveraged a remote template to download and […]
OneNote Abused by Cybercriminals
Threat actors are taking advantage of Microsoft OneNote’s ability to embed files and use social engineering techniques, such as phishing emails and lures inside the OneNote document, to get unsuspecting users to download and open malicious files. Once clicked, an attacker can use the embedded code for various malicious purposes, such as stealing data or […]
Emotet Malicous Mail is Back
After several months of inactivity, the Emotet botnet resumed email activity this morning at 8:00am EST. The malicious emails seem to be replying to already existing email chains, with the addition of an attached .zip file. The .zip files are not password protected. The themes of the attached files include finances and invoices. The .zip […]
Manually Creating Swap Partition
Continuing from this articles…https://anyware.com.sg/re-sizing-linux-storage/ What happened to Swap…. Creating Swap partition alone would not suffice that it would be used by the system; it has to be initialized and activated. To initialize: # mkswap /dev/sda5 To activate: # swapon /dev/sda5 When I recreated the partition I didn’t know about the above and this… New Swap […]
Re-Sizing Linux Storage
Continuing from this article https://anyware.com.sg/debian11-128mb/ While testing out the file server services; the storage space soon filled up. That’s when I realised I had provisioned only 16GB of Storage most likely I thought I’m won’t doing anything else besides sftp testing. So how exactly I increased the Storage size… There are couple of options in […]
Withsecure has developed Ransomware undo tech
Ransomware attacks have plagued organizations for the past several years, inflicting considerable financial losses. To help organizations manage ransomware and other threats, WithSecure™ (formerly known as F-Secure Business) has developed a new technology that can essentially undo the damage malware can cause. The technology, called Activity Monitor, was developed to make the capabilities of a sandbox […]
Debian 11 on 128 MB RAM
Coming from Win 3.1 days, I can’t fathom what the craze with modern operating systems gobbling GBs of RAM. Therefore I took it on myself to find which modern OS can smoothly run with the least amount of RAM. So I set out some parameter the OS should server, like it should have the complete […]