Philippines-based tech firm Funnull Technology has been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control over its involvement in romance baiting schemes resulting in the loss of $200 million worth of cryptocurrency among U.S. victims, reports The Hacker News.
VenomRAT spread via fake Bitdefender site Threat actors have been leveraging a fraudulent website promoting Bitdefender antivirus software to distribute the VenomRAT remote access trojan as part of a new attack campaign, The Hacker News reports.
Infostealer deployed via TikTok videos Infosecurity Magazine reports that potentially artificial intelligence-created TikTok videos have been leveraged by threat actors to deploy the Vidar and StealC information-stealing payloads as part of a new malware campaign.
U.S. government employees laid off as part of the Trump administration's cutbacks have been subjected to a Chinese state-backed cyberespionage campaign involving fraudulent recruitment sites and social media, according to Cybersecurity Dive.