Russia is increasingly turning to American social media stars to covertly influence voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to U.S. officials and recently unveiled criminal charges.
“What we see them doing is relying on witting and unwitting Americans to seed, promote and add credibility to narratives that serve these foreign actors’ interest,” a senior intelligence official said in a briefing on Friday. “These foreign countries typically calculate that Americans are more likely to believe other Americans’ views.”
Attackers roamed the systems of Avis Car Rental, a major car rental service provider, for several days, accessing data of nearly 300,000 individuals.
Malicious actors breached Avis systems on August 3rd and roamed inside the system for three days until the company secured its networks.
The company’s data breach notification letter, submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, states that Avis discovered the breach on August 5th, indicating it took at least one day to kick the malicious actors out.
This post is about sandbox evasion techniques and their usefulness in more targeted engagements.
There's a lot of sandbox evasion techniques, some are simple: query WMI, some are cool: parsing SMBIOS tables, most try to detect sandbox artifacts. I wanted to know if these techniques are still effective for detecting sandboxes, or if the sandboxes have since been updated to counter them.
The Swiss do not seem to be particularly good at separating truth from lies, according to a study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The Truth Quest Survey involved 40,765 participants in 21 countries. The 1,531 participants from Switzerland came third from last. Only Colombia and Brazil did worse. The US and France were also in the bottom third of the international comparison. By contrast, the best results were achieved by participants from Finland, the UK and Norway.
An old but persistent email scam known as "sextortion" has a new personalized touch: The missives, which claim that malware has captured webcam footage of recipients pleasuring themselves, now include a photo of the target's home in a bid to make…
SonicWall is warning customers that the recently patched critical vulnerability CVE-2024-40766 may be exploited in the wild.