The latest Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday examined the role of conspiracy theory communities like 8kun[.]top and TheDonald[.]win in helping to organize and galvanize supporters who responded to former President Trump’s invitation to “be wild” in Washington, D.C. on that chaotic day. At the same show more ...
A new SMS-based scam is reaching out to people in New York with a false claim of New York State offering $1,500 rebates owing to high fuel prices. Those who click on the links are redirected to a fake DMV website and urged to enter their personal information. The NYS Office has provided multiple recommendations for staying protected from such phishing scams.
Adobe has released security updates for Acrobat and Reader, RoboHelp, Photoshop, and Character and Animator products. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities and potentially take over impacted systems.
The group has been active for quite a while but it failed to gain the notoriety and financial success of other gangs. It followed the well-known tactic of double extortion combined with a leak site to publish the name of the victims and stolen data.
Automation is an emerging trend for SOCs. Like Microsoft’s new security patch technology, SOC automation intends to both improve an enterprise’s security posture and reduce the burden on security engineers and security analysts.
Most commonly, phishing attacks targeting journalists are used for espionage or to gain key insights into the inner workings of another government, company, or other areas of state-designated import.
Due to the unique ways that machine learning systems are developed and deployed, they introduce new threat vectors that developers are often unaware of, the study finds, adding that many of the old and known threats also apply to ML systems.
Device sprawl is becoming a costly security headache with the average enterprise now managing approximately 135,000 endpoint devices, a new report from Adaptiva and the Ponemon Institute finds.
“The main goal of hackers remains cyber-espionage, disruption of the availability of state information services and even destruction of information systems with the help of wipers,” the SSSCIP said.
The Predatory Sparrow threat actor attacked multiple Iranian steel facilities and posted 20GB of corporate documents. Even while the group insists that the attacks are autonomous, it is speculated that the Israeli government is backing the group. However, it's not the first time that the group has claimed responsibility for attacks against Iranian facilities.
This threat actor group has repeatedly targeted the government entities in Ukraine via phishing campaigns following the same common tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
This specific vulnerability exists in WebGPU, which is a JavaScript API for processing accelerated 3-D graphics and other functions in the browser. CVE-2022-2399 occurs if the user opens a specially crafted web page in Chrome.
Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology are warning this week about a novel technique attackers could use to de-anonymize website visitors and potentially connect the dots on many components of targets’ digital lives.
A lawsuit has been filed against Tenet Healthcare and its Texas affiliate Baptist Health System following Tenet's breach notification to 1.2 million patients that their data was stolen during a systems’ hack in March.
Digital Shadows, which monitors almost 90 data leak sites on the dark web, observed ransomware groups name 705 victims in Q2 2022, representing a 21% increase over last quarter’s 582.
The botnet – which Cloudflare calls Mantis and which is named after the small, razor-legged prawn – generated a short but record-breaking DDoS attack in June that peaked at 26 million HTTPS requests per second (rps).
There is no reliable data based on which to determine by when you should remediate certain vulnerabilities. One can rely on the intelligence and data at hand, and based on what other companies have implemented successfully, find good places to start.
Attackers could abuse the popular sticker feature in Microsoft Teams to conduct XSS attacks. When a sticker is sent via Teams, the platform converts it into an image and uploads the content as ‘RichText/HTML’ in the subsequent message.
The company warned that some transplant recipients’ medical records contained their donor’s information, while recipient information also showed up in some donors’ records.
After first appearing just weeks ago, MaliBot has become one of the most prolific forms of Android malware. According to Check Point, it was the third-most prevalent malware targeting Android users in June, filling the gap left by FluBot.
VMware has confirmed that all four vulnerabilities impact its ESXi hypervisor, and that patches are available for ESXi versions 7.0, 6.7, and 6.5, as well as for Cloud Foundation versions 4.x and 3.x.
Researchers at Defiant, the maker of the Wordfence security solution for WordPress, observed an average of almost half a million attack attempts per day against customer sites they protect.
According to a letter sent to customers, data stored by a subcontractor of Colorado Springs Utilities was "accessed by an unauthorized party" on June 15. The utility was notified of the incident on July 6, the letter states.
The number of people falling victim to data breaches has fallen back from last year’s record high, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a US-based non-profit that provides identity crime advice.
In a letter to contractors, Morgan Hunt – which provides personnel services to clients in the charity education, finance, government, housing, and technology sectors – confirmed the break-in.
According to Skybox Security, the top four causes of the most significant breaches reported by the affected organizations were human error, misconfigurations, poor maintenance/lack of cyber hygiene, and unknown assets.
The Microsoft Windows kernel suffers from an invalid read in nt!MiRelocateImage while parsing a malformed PE file.
On Microsoft Windows, the LsapGetClientInfo API in LSASRV will fallback and directly capture a caller's impersonation token if it fails to impersonate, leading to elevation of privilege if the impersonation level is not checked.
The botnet behind the largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June 2022 has been linked to a spate of attacks aimed at nearly 1,000 Cloudflare customers. Calling the powerful botnet Mantis, the web performance and security company attributed it to more than 3,000 HTTP DDoS attacks against its users. The most attacked industry verticals include internet and telecom, media,
An emerging threat cluster originating from North Korea has been linked to developing and using ransomware in cyberattacks targeting small businesses since September 2021. The group, which calls itself H0lyGh0st after the ransomware payload of the same name, is being tracked by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center under the moniker DEV-0530, a designation assigned for unknown, emerging, or a
New survey reveals lack of staff, skills, and resources driving smaller teams to outsource security. As business begins its return to normalcy (however “normal” may look), CISOs at small and medium-size enterprises (500 – 10,000 employees) were asked to share their cybersecurity challenges and priorities, and their responses were compared the results with those of a similar survey from 2021.
A group of academics from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has warned of a novel technique that could be used to defeat anonymity protections and identify a unique website visitor. "An attacker who has complete or partial control over a website can learn whether a specific target (i.e., a unique individual) is browsing the website," the researchers said. "The attacker knows this
