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North Korean state-sponsored hackers have been linked to two recent cyberattack campaigns: one involving a spear-phishing attack on JumpCloud and the other targeting tech employees on GitHub through a social engineering campaign. "Fewer than 5 JumpCloud customers were impacted and fewer than 10 devices total were impacted, out of more than 200,000 organizations who rely on the JumpCloud platform for a variety of identity, access, security, and management functions,".
Cybercriminals are taking their business offline in a new approach to familiar technical support scams recently identified by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. In a bulletin published yesterday, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center says it's noticed a recent uptick in technical support scams across the US that, rather than urging victims to wire funds, send cryptocurrency or hand over gift card codes, is asking them to mail magazine-wrapped wads of cash.
FBI warns of a surge in tech support scams targeting the elderly across the United States and urging victims to dispatch cash concealed within magazines or similar items through shipping firms. While tech support scams have been around for years, the FBI says this is a departure from scammers' conventional tactics of soliciting their targets to send money using bank transfers, cryptocurrencies, or gift cards.
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Once the malicious software is installed, it redirects incoming calls to a call center under the control of the criminals. To facilitate the routing of voice traffic, "Letscall" utilizes cutting-edge technologies such as voice over IP and WebRTC. It also makes use of Session Traversal Utilities for NAT and Traversal Using Relays around NAT protocols, including Google STUN servers, to ensure high-quality phone or video calls and bypass NAT and firewall restrictions.
Through them, any tech company doing business with Australians will be required to actively scan their emails, online photo libraries, cloud storage accounts and dating sites for illegal content. Part of the Commissioner's role has been to create and enforce a framework whereby illegal or damaging material can be removed at the eSafety Commissioner's request.
48% of CIOs are more likely to prioritize innovation in new technologies over optimizing their current tech stack. "The job of the CIO has never been more demanding, and the findings indicate they are taking increasing risks in response. The more complex the technology landscape, the more challenging it is for the CIO to enact organization-wide digital transformation and prioritize initiatives and investments that will deliver business outcomes," said Ken Wong, President of Lenovo Solutions and Services Group.
The United States and the Republic of Korea have issued a joint cyber security advisory [PDF] about North Koreas "Kimsuky" cyber crime group. In their joint advisory, US and South Korean authorities said Kimsuky targets "Think tanks, academic institutions, and news outlets for the purpose of intelligence gathering." The South says the gang is also involved in stealing info used by the DPRK's satellite program.