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 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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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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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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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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