In their relentless pursuit of folks credentials, secret keys and other valuable information, cybercriminals are continually inventing new ways to deceive users. Its worth noting that normally, no matter how sophisticated these schemes become, theyre all aimed at users who drop their guard. If you just pay close show more ...
The phishing message uses the subject “Azovstal” and a weaponized office document. Upon opening the attachment and enabling the macro, it will start the infection process.
GeniusU, a Singapore-based education technology company, has been fined $35,000 for a data breach that resulted in the theft of 1.26 million users' personal data, one of the largest data breaches in recent years.
DeFi platforms have gained a lot of traction in recent years. However, cryptocurrency transfers from illegal digital wallets to DeFi platforms skyrocketed by nearly 2,000% between 2020 and 2021 alone, according to Chainalysis.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it will provide $12 million in funding to six university teams to develop defense and mitigation tools to protect US energy delivery systems from cyberattacks.
Cue Health announced Friday a patch for unsecured Bluetooth communications in its smart Cue Health Home COVID-19 Test that allowed the user or another attacker to change the results of the test.
A large-scale Monero cryptomining campaign has been targeting Docker APIs on Linux servers. The attacks are launched from the LemonDuck botnet targeting misconfigured Docker systems.
The FBI has indicated that BlackCat/ALPHV is the first ransomware group to use Rust programming language for its toolset to compromise at least 60 firms worldwide, between November 2021 and March 2022.
The LockBit ransomware group claimed to have attacked systems connected to the government offices, stealing about 420 GB. The group threatened to leak the stolen data on Monday.
The DHS bug bounty program, launched in December 2021, brought the agency up to speed with other agencies that already had bug bounty programs, such as the DoD and the IRS, which both launched their programs in 2016.
Sophos has announced to acquire the early-stage vendor SOC.OS to help customers detect abnormalities in their IT environment earlier by ingesting data from third-party platforms.
Indian oil companies faced 360,000 cyberattacks in six months, a study conducted by CyberPeace Foundation, a civil society organization, along with Autobot Infosec and CyberPeace Center of Excellence, has found.
StateScoop reported that nearly 1,700 students in Coventry Public Schools in Connecticut may have had their data compromised as a result of a breach at Illuminate Education early this year.
Zero-day disclosures are of particular interest to hackers because they have a wider exploitation window until vendors address the flaws and clients start applying the updates.
An American respiratory care provider is facing multiple lawsuits over a data breach that allegedly exposed the personal information of more than 300,000 current and former patients.
It employs two distinctive anti-analysis techniques. The first is API function hashing, a known trick to obfuscate which functions are called. The second is an opaque predicate, a technique used for control flow obfuscation.
Medical device cybersecurity has become an extremely complex challenge. It is now more important than ever to learn from industry peers and try to find the best way forward.
The threat actors are using the IcedID malware as one of their initial access vectors, which deploys Cobalt Strike for remote access and leads to data theft and encryption using Quantum Locker.
In the wake of the digital transformation wave, web APIs have experienced exponential growth as the rise of integrated web and mobile-based offerings requires significantly more data sharing across products.
A recent report from Zscaler showed dramatic 29% growth in overall phishing attacks compared to previous years, with retail and wholesale companies bearing the brunt of the increase.
"By exploiting the vulnerability, it's possible to decrypt the private keys and seed phrases that are stored in the browser's local storage," Check Point said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
The U.S. Treasury Department last week tied the North Korean hacking group, Lazarus, to the theft of more than $600 million in cryptocurrency from the Ronin software bridge, which is used by players of Axie Infinity to transfer crypto.
Zscaler’s ThreatLabz reported bugs in Adobe Acrobat that are related to Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF) parsing. Adobe determined that Acrobat is secure by default for converting EMF to PDF.
CertiK announced an additional $60 million USD investment in its extended Series B round from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tiger Global. This marks SoftBank’s first venture into the Web3 security space.
Threat analysts have spotted yet another addition to the growing space of info-stealer malware infections, named Prynt Stealer, which offers powerful capabilities and extra keylogger and clipper modules.
"The GHT Cœur Grand Est has cut all incoming and outgoing internet connections from its establishments in order to protect and secure information systems and data," reads a translated statement from GHT.
As part of the fake appeals process, the user is asked to provide sensitive information, including their name and email address. Before submitting the form, the user is also asked to enter their Facebook password.
Stairwell assesses with medium-high confidence that GOLDBACKDOOR is the successor of, or used in parallel with, the malware BLUELIGHT, attributed to APT37 / Ricochet Chollima.
The UK’s education sector continues to be hit by spiraling ransomware attacks, which can cost affected organizations in excess of £2m (~$2.54m) per incident, according to a new Jisc report.
Attackers are quick to zero in on zero-days these days. Google’s Project Zero tracked 58 zero-day exploits last year, implying that this is the highest number of zero-days detected.
Joomla Sexy Polling extension versions 2.1.7 and below suffer from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
WordPress ScrollReveal.js Effects plugin version 1.1.1 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is sounding the alarm on the BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), which it said victimized at least 60 entities worldwide between as of March 2022 since its emergence last November. Also called ALPHV and Noberus, the ransomware is notable for being the first-ever malware written in the Rust programming language that's known to be memory safe and
A new variant of an IoT botnet called BotenaGo has emerged in the wild, specifically singling out Lilin security camera DVR devices to infect them with Mirai malware. Dubbed "Lilin Scanner" by Nozomi Networks, the latest version is designed to exploit a two-year-old critical command injection vulnerability in the DVR firmware that was patched by the Taiwanese company in February 2020. <!-
A security vulnerability has been disclosed in the web version of the Ever Surf wallet that, if successfully weaponized, could allow an attacker to gain full control over a victim's wallet. "By exploiting the vulnerability, it's possible to decrypt the private keys and seed phrases that are stored in the browser's local storage," Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point said in a report shared
Security researchers have disclosed a security vulnerability in the VirusTotal platform that could have been potentially weaponized to achieve remote code execution (RCE). The flaw, now patched, made it possible to "execute commands remotely within VirusTotal platform and gain access to its various scans capabilities," Cysource researchers Shai Alfasi and Marlon Fabiano da Silva said in a report
Someone isn't happy that Ukraine's post office has issued stamps mocking the sunken Russian navy flagship.
