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National bank hit by ransomware trolls hackers with dick pics
2022-05-18 20:13

After suffering a ransomware attack by the Hive operation, the Bank of Zambia made it clear that they were not going to pay by posting a picture of male genitalia and telling the hackers to s. Last week, the Bank of Zambia, the country's central bank, disclosed that recent technical outages resulted from a cyberattack. "The Bank of Zambia wishes to inform members of the public that it experienced a partial disruption to some of its Information Technology applications on Monday 9th May 2022," disclosed the bank in a press release.

Dridex malware trolls employees with fake job termination emails
2021-12-22 17:15

A new Dridex malware phishing campaign is using fake employee termination emails as a lure to open a malicious Excel document, which then trolls the victim with a season's greeting message. Dridex is a banking malware spread through malicious emails that was initially developed to steal online banking credentials.

Australia will force social networks to identify trolls, so they can be sued for defamation
2021-11-29 01:15

Australia's government has announced it will compel social media companies to reveal the identities of users who post material considered defamatory. Just how social media companies will be made to identify users was not explained, nor has a bill been posted that would shed light on how the law would operate - but an "Exposure draft" of the law was promised "In the coming week" ahead of a consultation process.

Never mind the trolls, Discord hosts 'significant volumes of malware' in its CDN
2021-07-23 01:32

In a blog post, security sleuths Sean Gallagher and Andrew Brandt said four per cent of all TLS-protected malware - representing about 46 per cent of all malware command-and-control communication - interacts with Discord. "We observed significant volumes of malware hosted in Discord's own CDN, as well as malware interacting with Discord APIs to send and receive data," said Gallagher and Brandt.

Zoom: These new features will prevent trolls and meeting-crashers
2020-11-18 12:59

Zoom hosts can now pause a meeting while they remove a disruptive participant, and a new web-scanning tool will seek out compromised meeting links. Zoom has introduced new security measures to let hosts remove disruptive or unauthorized meeting participants and report them to Zoom administrators, alongside other tools to keep trolls at bay.

Zoom rolls out security enhancements to stop zoombombing trolls
2020-11-16 17:55

Zoom has announced today the rollout of new security enhancements designed to help meeting hosts to block zoombombing attempts and participants to report misbehaving users. Zoombombing happens when Zoom meetings are joined by unauthorized third parties with the goal to disrupt ongoing sessions and harass participants.

Trump Confirms U.S. Launched Cyberattack on Russian Troll Farm in 2018
2020-07-13 12:00

U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed that a cyberattack was launched in 2018 against a Russian company believed to be behind some major disinformation campaigns, including ones targeting elections. The Washington Post reported in February 2019 that the U.S. Cyber Command, supported by the NSA, had launched an attack on the Internet Research Agency, a Saint Petersburg-based firm that is said to conduct online influence operations for the Russian government.

Trump reveals US cyber-attack on Russian election-misdirection troll farms
2020-07-13 08:02

In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.

FBI Threatens ‘Zoom Bombing’ Trolls With Jail Time
2020-04-06 20:56

As reports of "Zoom bombing" explode, the FBI is cracking down on the issue with a new warning that web conference hijackers could face jail time. These are punishable by fines and even imprisonment, according to the FBI. "You think Zoom bombing is funny? Let's see how funny it is after you get arrested," stated Matthew Schneider, United States Attorney for Eastern Michigan in a Friday public statement.

Trolls ZoomBomb work-from-home videocall with filth
2020-03-20 16:37

Well, hang on to your hats, hosts: before you set up meetings, you need to know how to block the trolls. As TechCrunch reports, on Tuesday, WFH Happy Hour - a popular daily public Zoom call hosted by The Verge reporter Casey Newton and investor Hunter Walk - got ZoomBombed.