Cyberwarfare News Round-Up: April 2022
The Russo-Ukrainian was continues to rage on in both the physical world and cyberspace, providing an ongoing stream of events to analyze and new security threats to study. While the world is focused on this conflict, other threat actors remains active and mostly unreported.
How to Report a Phishing Email using the Outlook App
This short post provides a step-by-step guide into reporting phishing emails using the Outlook application.
How to Report a Phishing Email using Outlook on the Web
What is Phishing and Why is it Bad? Phishing is a term that refers to a digital attack that attempts to bait someone into a particular action. The connection to regular fishing (with an f) is straightforward: In real-life fishing, you bait the hook with a worm or lure in an attempt to convince a […]
The Past, Present and Future of Chinese Cyber Operations
China, as one of many alleged actors on the frontier of cyber espionage, is best understood by briefly examining the past century, how it influences contemporary cyber operations attributed to Chinese-based actors, and how they could be used against the Canadian Armed Forces in a potential Southeast Asian conflict.
DNSChanger Worm uses DNS poisoning
A variant of the DNSChanger worm is reported to use DNS poisoning to infect new machines on a network, according to a well-explained article from The Register[1]. The attack used is quite interesting, but far from being new mind you. The first strains of the DNSChanger worm infected Windows and Mac machines. It modified and […]
Malware Authors Loves Obama Too
The Register reports that malware creators are already using Mr. Obama’s popularity to distribute the Papras Trojan using spam, social engineering and Google Ads[1]. Users usually receive an email from what seems a legitimate news sources such as CNN and BBC, inviting users to see the speech of Barack Obama on their website. The content […]