Chinese APT41 Hackers Broke into at Least 6 U.S. State Governments: Mandiant

APT41, the state-sponsored threat actor affiliated with China, breached at least six U.S. state government networks between May 2021 and February 2022 by retooling its attack vectors to take advantage of vulnerable internet-facing web applications. The exploited vulnerabilities included “a zero-day vulnerability in the USAHERDS application (CVE-2021-44207) as well as the now infamous zero-day in…

Iranian Hackers Targeting Turkey and Arabian Peninsula in New Malware Campaign

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new swarm of attacks targeting Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula with the goal of deploying remote access trojans (RATs) on compromised systems. “The MuddyWater supergroup is highly motivated and can use unauthorized access to conduct espionage, intellectual property theft, and deploy ransomware…

3 Blue-Chip Tech Stocks Wall Street Predicts Will Rally More Than 50%

Accelerating digitization and adoption of advanced technologies across industries to ramp up businesses should propel the tech market’s growth in the coming years. Considering the fundamental stability of the blue-chip stocks, NVIDIA (NVDA), salesforce (CRM), and PayPal (PYPL) could be ideal additions to your watchlist, given the current market volatility. Street analysts see a more…