Chinese Cyberattacks: What Are They in 2024?

Microsoft Typhoon story: “Living off the Land” The story starts: ‘The attack is carried out by Volt Typhoon, a state-sponsored actor based in China that typically focuses on espionage and information gathering’ The Chinese attacked and stole state department employee email, in this Politico story about the Chinese hack: “Among the most sensitive information stolen, … Read more

Phishing by Text Using Post Office Logo & Wording

fake post office text smish attack

I am receiving (just got another one) the following image text is the full size version: As you can see I got this text on Wednesday November 8th at 9:10 am the text says  “The USPS package has arrived at the warehouse and cannot be delivered due to incomplete address information.” Please confirm your address … Read more

AI Can Be Dangerous For Cyberdefense or Privacy

AI or Artificial Intelligence is the latest buzzword which means many things in the spectrum of computerized or automated instructions.  There is machine learning neural logic and more, but let’s ask a GPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) or https://martech.zone/acronym/gpt/ I asked you.com (a GPT AI site about types of Artifical Intelligence) Answer: There are several ways … Read more

More Pig Butchering or “Sha Zhu Pan”

Cybernews.com has a story on another incidence of Pig Butchering… As some youtube personalities with Chinese knowledge mentioned pig butchering refers to raising a pig to be ultimately butchered.  So one plays the long game, where one befriends an opposite sex person with carefully cultivated stories. As the person slowly trusts the scam which initially … Read more

Every month New Vulnerabilities and Patches/Fixes

A new Vulnerability which was a “Zero Day” vulnerability in a Windows Tool called MSDT (Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool)  according to Technewsworld.com story You can see the tool here in the following image: (after typing msdt in the  Run or task search bar for Windows`10 operating system.)   As I have discussed before – in … Read more