Arun Kumar

Lapsus$, an infamous cybercrime gang, had previously breached high-profile companies such as Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Samsung. Recently they claimed responsibility for the data breach targeting Globant, a Luxembourg-based software service company, thereby announcing their return after a brief ‘vacation’. An message regarding the attack was shared on Lapsus$’ official Telegram…

On friday (March 25), the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) included Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Labs, and Chinese communication firms China Telecom (Americas) Corp and China Mobile International USA Inc. to its list of service providers and communications equipment that can potentially threaten US national security. The official advisory released by FCC stated that…

On 24th March (Thursday), Google’s threat analysis group (TAG) released a statement that disclosed details about the activity of two North Korean based hacker groups, who had exploited Chrome’s zero-day vulnerability to target several fintech, news media, IT and cryptocurrency firms. Previously, the attackers carried out two campaigns, namely Operation Dream Job and Operation Apple…

Amidst the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war, the FBI has disclosed that there is a growing amount of interest shown by Russian hackers in US-based energy firms, although there are no signs of a cyberattack being planned for the time being. The FBI advisory accessed by Associated Press on Tuesday (March 22) also revealed that the Russian cyberattackers have examined atleast five energy companies for…

In a recently released cybersecurity advisory, the FBI revealed that Avoslocker, the Ransomware-as-a-Service group that surfaced in mid-2021, was responsible for targeting US-based critical infrastructure across multiple sectors. The statement was jointly authored by the US Treasury Department and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The press release also shed light on the modus…