Chinese Hackers Had Access to a U.S. Hacking Tool Years Before It Was Leaked Online

The Hacker News Daily Updates [Newsletter]( [cover]( [How to Hack A Human: Social Media, Social Engineering, and Business Email Compromise]( Tessian interviewed ten ethical hackers, commissioned a survey of 4,000 employees (2,000 in the US, 2,000 in the UK), and analyzed inbound email data to dig deep into how bad actors can - and do - use publically information to target people with social engineering attacks. [Download Now]( Sponsored LATEST NEWS Feb 23, 2021 [Experts Find a Way to Learn What You're Typing During Video Calls]( A new attack framework aims to infer keystrokes typed by a target user at the opposite end of a video conference call by simply leveraging the video feed to correlate observable body movements to the text being typed. The research was undertaken by Mohd Sabra, and Murtuza Jadliwala from the ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [5 Security Lessons for Small Security Teams for the Post COVID19 Era]( A full-time mass work from home (WFH) workforce was once considered an extreme risk scenario that few risk or security professionals even bothered to think about. Unfortunately, within a single day, businesses worldwide had to face such a reality. Their 3-year long digital transformation strategy ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Shadow Attacks Let Attackers Replace Content in Digitally Signed PDFs]( Researchers have demonstrated a novel class of attacks that could allow a bad actor to potentially circumvent existing countermeasures and break the integrity protection of digitally signed PDF documents. Called "Shadow attacks" by academics from Ruhr-University Bochum, the technique uses the ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Hackers Exploit Accellion Zero-Days in Recent Data Theft and Extortion Attacks]( Cybersecurity researchers on Monday tied a string of attacks targeting Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) servers over the past two months to data theft and extortion campaign orchestrated by a cybercrime group called UNC2546. The attacks, which began in mid-December 2020, involved exploiting ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [How to Fight Business Email Compromise (BEC) with Email Authentication?]( An ever-evolving and rampant form of cybercrime that targets emails as the potential medium to conduct fraud is known as Business Email Compromise. Targeting commercial, government as well as non-profit organizations, BEC can lead to huge amounts of data loss, security breach, and compromised ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [cover]( [How to Hack A Human: Social Media, Social Engineering, and Business Email Compromise]( Tessian interviewed ten ethical hackers, commissioned a survey of 4,000 employees (2,000 in the US, 2,000 in the UK), and analyzed inbound email data to dig deep into how bad actors can - and do - use publically information to target people with social engineering attacks. [Download Now]( Sponsored This email was sent to {EMAIL}. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please [click here](. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com [Unsubscribe]( The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India