Ahead of the 2024 Oscars, Jimmy Kimmel, who will be hosting the awards show for the fourth time, sat down with “Good Morning America” to discuss the details surrounding Hollywood’s biggest night. In an interview with ABC News’ Lara Spencer, which aired on Thursday, Kimmel, 56, shared one of the biggest reasons he agreed to return for the hosting duty is due to the films nominated at the 96th Academy Awards. Jimmy Kimmel sits down with Good Morning America for an interview ahead of his hosting duty at the 2024 Oscars. ABC News “There were some really good movies …I think they’re all really good. I saw them all,” he shared. “It’s a big part of why I decided to host the show this year, because I do know that there are movies that people have actually seen, which makes it a lot easier to… Source link
Read More »A bill appears that would punish app stores that host TikTok
Mar 07, 2024 11:43:00 Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, chairman of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Communist Party of China, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, local time. (Democrat of Illinois) announced a bill to protect Americans from applications controlled by foreign adversaries. In the United States, there has been a movement toward banning TikTok , and this bill is a new initiative to follow. Gallagher, Bipartisan Coalition Introduce Legislation to Protect Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications, Including TikTok | Select Committee on the CCP Source link
Read More »Spoofed Zoom, Google & Skype Meetings Spread Corporate RATs
A threat actor is creating fake Skype, Google Meet, and Zoom meetings, mimicking these popular collaboration applications to spread various commodity malware that can steal sensitive data from both Android and Windows users. The campaign, which began in December, demonstrates an emerging cybersecurity threat for corporate users, researchers from Zcaler’s ThreatLabz revealed in a blog post on March 6. The attackers are using shared Web hosting to host fake online meeting sites on a single IP address, leveraging various URLs that are convincingly similar enough to the actual websites of the services being impersonated. The Skype campaign, for instance, used “join-skype[.]info,” while Google Meet users were enticed to join meetings via “online-cloudmeeting[.]pro.” The Zoom campaign uses… Source link
Read More »Fake Skype, Zoom, Google Meet Sites Infecting Devices with Multiple RATs
Android and Windows users, beware of fake online meeting sites such as Google Meet, Zoom, and Skype, infecting devices with malicious malware like SpyNote RAT for Android, NjRAT, and DCRat. Zscaler’s ThreatLabz cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new scam where Remote Access Trojans (RATs) are distributed through online meeting platforms, targeting Android and Windows users with malware. The purpose is to distribute malware that can steal sensitive data and control infected devices. Researchers discovered a threat actor creating fraudulent websites for spreading malware, including SpyNote RAT for Android and NjRAT and DCRat for Windows, in December 2023. These RATs can steal confidential information and log keystrokes. Users are lured through fake online… Source link
Read More »Skype, Google Meet, and Zoom Used in New Trojan Scam Campaign
A threat actor has been distributing remote access Trojans (RATs) on Android and Windows operating systems using online meeting lures, according to cloud security provider Zscaler. This campaign has been ongoing since at least December 2023, observed Zscaler’s threat intelligence team, ThreatLabz. The distributed RATs include Android-focused SpyNote RAT and Windows-focused NjRAT and DCRat. Malicious APKs and BAT Files Leading to RAT Payloads To lure its victims into downloading the RATs, the threat actor created several fake online meeting sites, impersonating brands like Microsoft-owned Skype, Google Meet and Zoom. “All of the fake sites were in Russian,” noted Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers. The attacker utilized shared web hosting services to host all these websites on a… Source link
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