Tag: amazon web services
Russian secret service steps up cyber-attacks on the West
Software giant Microsoft has made an urgent public announcement that the Russian secret service is currently sending thousands of weaponized spear-phishing emails to key individuals in over 100 organizations in countries including the US and the UK. According to Microsoft: “The emails were highly targeted, using social engineering lures relating to Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS)… In some of the lures, the actor attempted to add credibility to their malicious messages by impersonating Microsoft employees.”
26 Billion Stolen Record Database Discovered – January 24th
Security Discovery researchers and the Cybernews team discovered the largest data leak ever recorded, containing 26 billion records predominantly stolen from major social media platforms and government agencies. Dubbed "The Mother of All Breaches", the 12 terabytes of compromised records were stolen most notably from Tencent QQ (1.5B), Weibo (504M), MySpace (360M), Twitter (281M), LinkedIn (251M), AdultFriendFinder (220M), among government agency data from the United States, Brazil, Germany, the Philippines, Turkey, among others.
Discord called a ‘hotbed’ of malware activity – October 17th
Discord continues to be used by threat actors to launch malware attacks. Researchers have warned the online platform continues to be used to distribute malware and exfiltrate data. Three ways threat actors have been using Discord include stealing passwords, abusing webhooks, and stealing passwords.