A Vietnamese threat actor named BatShadow has been attributed to a new campaign that leverages social engineering tactics to deceive job seekers and digital marketing professionals to deliver a previously undocumented malware called Vampire Bot. "The attackers pose as recruiters, distributing malicious files disguised as job descriptions and corporate documents," Aryaka Threat Research Labs researchers Aditya K Sood and Varadharajan K said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "When opened,
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The president of Microsoft, Brad Smith, provided a warning of increasing cyber-threats to society as technology plays a more powerful role in our lives. This warning delivered during his recent talk at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021. Smith delineated the potential enormous benefits and advancements that technologies offer, including in areas like; sustainability, the cyber-threats being faced are correspondingly becoming increasingly concerning. “As computers create all this promise,
