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The government of South Pacific island nation New Zealand has revealed that it, too, has been attacked by China. A Tuesday announcement penned by attorney-general and minister of defence Judith Collins reveals that in 2021 the nation's Government Communications Security Bureau and National Cyber Security Center "Completed a robust technical assessment following a compromise of the Parliamentary Counsel Office and the Parliamentary Service in 2021, and has attributed this activity to a PRC state-sponsored group known as APT40."
A U.S. federal court has issued a $9,918,000 penalty and an injunction against an individual named Scott Rhodes for making thousands of "Spoofed" robocalls to consumers across the country. Robocalls are automated phone calls that use automated dialing software to deliver a pre-recorded message to many recipients.
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The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned three cryptocurrency exchanges for working with OFAC-designated Russian dark web markets and banks. The first, Bitpapa IC FZC LLC, is a peer-to-peer virtual currency exchange that caters to Russian nationals and has facilitated millions of dollars in transactions with two OFAC-designated Russian entities, Hydra Market and Garantex.
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Wuhan-based company used by the Chinese Ministry of State Security as cover in attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure organizations. The Office of Foreign Assets Control has also designated two Chinese nationals linked to the APT31 Chinese state-backed hacking group and who worked as contractors for the Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, Limited MSS front company for their involvement in the same attacks and "Endangering U.S. national security."
A new large-scale StrelaStealer malware campaign has impacted over a hundred organizations across the United States and Europe, attempting to steal email account credentials. StrelaStealer was first documented in November 2022 as a new information-stealing malware that steals email account credentials from Outlook and Thunderbird.
Crew may well be working under contract for Beijing Chinese spies exploited a couple of critical-severity bugs in F5 and ConnectWise equipment earlier this year to sell access to compromised US...
Employees at US-based organizations are being targeted with emails delivering NetSupport RAT malware via "Nuanced" exploitation and by using an advanced detection evasion method. The phishing emails prompts recipients to download an attached Office Word file to view their "Monthly salary report".