Workshop on Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR)
25th October ,2022 Press Release On the occasion of cyber security awareness month, Information and Communication Technology Division and BGD e-GOV CIRT organized a workshop on Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) which is practiced by the ASEAN countries on October 24 2022 in the conference room of Bangladesh Computer Council. Two experts, Beitas Broader and Joe Pettuso presented keynotes in the day-long workshop which was...
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Signal will remove support for SMS text messages on Android
Signal says it will start to phase out SMS and MMS message support from its Android app to streamline the user experience and prioritize security and privacy. While this announcement may surprise those who don’t know Signal can also be used to manage this type of text message, the Signal for Android app could be configured as the default SMS/MMS app since its beginning as TextSecure, an...
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Worok: A New Cyber Espionage Group Targeting Private and Local Government Entities Mostly in Asia
A new cyber espionage threat group that has been previously unknown named Worok and has been observed using undocumented tools targeting private and local government entities mostly in Asia. Based on the report by ESET, the group has been active for at least 2020 and observed a significant break in operation from 2021-05 to 2022-01, but in 2022-02, their operation resumed, targeting an energy company, and a public...
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by CIRT Team
Facebook warns about 400 password-stealing apps! Camera, beauty, VPN apps on the list
The tech giant has uncovered more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps this year which steal usernames and passwords. 45 out of the 400 apps it found were on iOS, while the rest were on Android. They masquerade themselves as popular services like photo editors, games and VPNs to trick people into downloading them. How do these malicious apps work? Apart from displaying fun...
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The North Korean Lazarus Group Hacked Energy Providers Worldwide
INTRODUCTION Cisco Talos observed North Korean state-sponsored APT Lazarus Group conducting malicious activity between February and July 2022. Lazarus has been previously attributed to the North Korean government by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The entry vectors involve the successful exploitation of vulnerabilities in VMWare products to establish initial footholds into enterprise networks, followed by the deployment of the group’s custom malware implants, VSingle and YamaBot. In...
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Vice Society: a discreet but steady double extortion ransomware group
What is Vice Society? Vice Society is a little-known double extortion group that joined the cybercrime ecosystem a year ago. Since then, it showed a steady activity, encrypting and exfiltrating its victim’s data and threatening their victims to leak their information to pressure them into paying a ransom. Unlike other RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service) double extortion groups, Vice Society focuses on getting into the victim system to deploy ransomware binaries...
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by CIRT Team
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Travel Industry Recovering From Covid Turbulence, Grounded By Cyberattacks
Cybercrime Activities At A Glance Introduction The Aviation industry is a critical, strategic, and economically important sector for any nation. The pandemic-struck industry has started showing signs of gradual recovery after two years of volatility, however, attaining the pre-COVID global travel figures seems still farfetched until mid-2023. Amidst epidemic chaos, the Aviation industry steered itself towards embracing technology to reduce human dependence and make a...
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New Android Banking Trojan Zanubis Spotted In The Wild.
Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) has been tracking the activities of various Android Banking Trojans such as Hydra, Ermac, and Amextroll, amongst several others. During a routine threat-hunting exercise, we came across a Twitter post where a researcher mentioned a malware sample. After an in-depth analysis, the malware was identified as a new Android Banking Trojan variant targeting over 40 applications from Peru. The Threat Actor (TA) uses the...
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Zeppelin Ransomware
Technical Details Note: this advisory uses the MITRE ATT&CK® for Enterprise framework, version 11. See MITRE ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced tactics and techniques. Zeppelin ransomware is a derivative of the Delphi-based Vega malware family and functions as a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS). From 2019 through at least June 2022, actors have used this malware to target a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure...
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