Episode 268 of the Transatlantic Cable kicks off with a rather bizarre (and thats putting it lightly) story about a chess master tournament, cheating and beads that go where the sun dont shine, so to speak. Lets just say if you want to learn more, check the link below. Following that bombshell, discussion returns to show more ...
Its common to find all sorts of malware lurking under what seem to be harmless apps on the official Google Play store. Unfortunately, even if the platform is policed carefully, moderators cant always catch these apps before theyre posted. One of the most popular variations of this kind of malware is Trojan show more ...
According to security researcher 3xp0rt, a newly registered Twitter user named 'Ali Qushji' states their team hacked LockBits servers and found a builder for the LockBit 3.0 ransomware encryptor.
The FBI published an alert about threat actors targeting healthcare payment processors to transfer funds to their bank accounts. They have already stolen $4.6 million, this year alone. Between February and April, threat actors used a variety of techniques to steal $3.1 million. $700,000, and $840,000 from three different healthcare companies.
The round was led by Craft Ventures with participation from Martin Casado, Frederic Kerrest, Anne Raimondi, Iman Abuzeid, and Dev Nag. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product development, and continue to invest in its solution.
“While MSSB recovered some of the devices, which were shown to contain thousands of pieces of unencrypted customer data, the firm has not recovered the vast majority of the devices,” the SEC said in a statement.
The agency issued a cybersecurity risk alert for the Medtronic MiniMed 600 Series insulin pump system, which has several components including an insulin pump and a blood glucose meter that communicate wirelessly.
Russian state-sponsored hacker group Sandworm appears to have been involved in targeting Ukrainian entities with malware by masquerading as telecommunication providers. In the attack campaign, attackers used domains pretending to belong to Ukrainian telecom companies Datagroup, Kyivstar, and EuroTransTelecom.
Resourcive says the acquisition will create a new cybersecurity module within the company. Proteus founder Adrian Tilston will lead the practice. Resourcive didn’t say how much it’s paying for Proteus.
The hackers who targeted the Los Angeles Unified School District have made a ransom demand, officials confirmed Tuesday, indicating that the attackers have extracted sensitive data or believe they can bluff the district into thinking that they have.
“There are 39,405 unauthenticated Redis services out of 350,675 total Redis services on the public internet,” warns Censys. “Almost 50% of unauthenticated Redis services on the internet show signs of an attempted compromise.”
Cybersecurity firm KnowBe4 Inc said on Monday that Vista Equity Partners had offered to take it private for $4.22 billion in cash, the latest sign of private equity interest in a sector whose valuations have declined in this year's downturn.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and CISA said that one of the Iranian threat groups behind the destructive attack on the Albanian government's network in July lurked inside its systems for roughly 14 months.
The guidance emphasizes the need to add extra layers of security on top of passwords – such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), OAuth 2.0 or single sign-on, FIDO2, or one-time passcodes.
Palo Alto Networks is closing in on a deal to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Apiiro for around $600 million, Calcalist has learned. Apiiro raised a total of $35 million in a Series A round to date.
A few incidents of fraud and phishing attempts using hoax messages, letters, and scam phone calls purporting to be from OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office have been detected.
The findings from a new study underscore a convergence in security with networking, which IT decision-makers now view as the missing strategy that will improve security response, automate compliance tasks, and better manage processes and outcomes.
HelpSystems, the developer of Cobalt Strike, issued an out-of-band security update to address a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the popular penetration testing suite.
Deep Instinct is set to add another $18 million to the round in the coming weeks to bring it up to a total of $80 million, taking the company’s funding to date to around $305 million.
The vulnerability is a path traversal attack in the extract and extractall functions in the tarfile module that allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by adding the “..” sequence to filenames in a TAR archive.
SentinelOne, an AI endpoint security firm that went public last June, has announced the launch of S Ventures, a $100 million fund to invest in the generation of enterprise cybersecurity startups.
The telco suffered the data breach when hackers, believed to be working for a criminal or state-sponsored organization, accessed the sensitive information by breaking through the company’s firewall.
The lack of communication, along with many bad cybersecurity practices, undermines cybersecurity and data protection in Nigeria, and creates a severe lack of trust and capacity, says Confidence Staveley, executive director of Cybersafe Foundation.
Under the theme ‘Don’t Be a Victim of Social Engineering Attacks’, experts will discuss how hackers and cybercriminals use a series of techniques to gather confidential and personal information, then use it to commit online fraud and theft.
Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes has announced it has received a $100 million cash injection from Vector Capital, a private equity firm that invests in established technology businesses.
A now-patched critical security flaw affecting Atlassian Confluence Server that came to light a few months ago is being actively exploited for illicit cryptocurrency mining on unpatched installations.
The sharing of cybersecurity information across government has improved, especially when private sector companies report attacks directly to the FBI, said Principal Deputy National Cyber Director Kemba Walden on Wednesday.
Some 40% of US consumers have had their personal information stolen, compromised, or misused in the past year, according to a poll conducted by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
GitHub is warning of an ongoing phishing campaign that started on September 16 and is targeting its users with emails that impersonate the CircleCI continuous integration and delivery platform.
The multi-stage malware attack chain hijacks the browser and redirects targets to advertising sites, for the threat actors to generate revenue from ad clicks and views.
Microsoft has released the final version of security configuration baseline settings for Windows 11, version 22H2, downloadable today using the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit.
"The malicious Material Tailwind npm package, while posing as a helpful development tool, has an automatic post-install script," Karlo Zanki, security researcher at ReversingLabs, said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
The cyber security awareness master plan is expected to be completed next year as the primary reference in the implementation of cyber security awareness programs at the national level, says the National Security Council (NSC).
Cybercriminals compromise domain names to attack the owners or users of the domains directly or use them for various nefarious endeavors, including phishing, malware distribution, and command and control (C2) operations.
Several members of Congress called on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on Wednesday to do more to protect the privacy of domain registration information.
This is the third time a custom data exfiltration tool appears to have been developed by ransomware operators, following the earlier discovery of the Ryuk Stealer tool and StealBit, which is linked to the LockBit ransomware operation.
Hackers are relentlessly targeting the gaming sector. In less than a month, hackers have carried out five major attacks on gamers and gaming platforms; 2K Games became the recent victim. The gaming industry has been a bastion for cyberattackers, owing to its exponential growth over the years, and it might be worth $326 billion by 2026.
MFA Fatigue is coming out as a new technique for cybercriminals excelling in social engineering attacks. They are targeting big firms to obtain corporate credentials. This method is turning out to be more successful as it does not need malware or phishing infrastructure.
The Series B round was led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital to double down on the market. The investment also includes One Peak, the U.K. VC that led DataGuard’s last fundraise of $20 million in 2020.
Several websites, including the ones for the central bank, the national government portal, and state-owned media sites, have been intermittently unreachable following the hacktivist attacks.
Various versions of Bitbucket Server and Data Center are vulnerable to an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability in multiple API endpoints. The /rest/api/latest/projects/{projectKey}/repos/{repositorySlug}/archive endpoint creates an archive of the repository, leveraging the git-archive command to do so. show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5628-1 - It was discovered that etcd incorrectly handled certain specially crafted WAL files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that etcd incorrectly handled directory permissions when trying to create a directory that exists already. An show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5627-1 - It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled memory when handling certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to expose sensitive information.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6681-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization release 4.9.6 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important.
Linux stable versions 5.4 and 5.10 suffers from a page use-after-free via stale TLB caused by an rmap lock not held during PUD move.
WorkOrder CMS version 0.1.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
WorkOrder CMS version 0.1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5626-2 - USN-5626-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Bind. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Yehuda Afek, Anat Bremler-Barr, and Shani Stajnrod discovered that Bind incorrectly handled large delegations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to reduce performance, leading to a denial of service.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6535-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.5.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6536-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.5.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6531-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10.33.
Multix version 2.4 suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability.
Multix version 2.4 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
A now-patched critical security flaw affecting Atlassian Confluence Server that came to light a few months ago is being actively exploited for illicit cryptocurrency mining on unpatched installations. "If left unremedied and successfully exploited, this vulnerability could be used for multiple and more malicious attacks, such as a complete domain takeover of the infrastructure and the deployment
As many as 350,000 open source projects are believed to be potentially vulnerable to exploitation as a result of a security flaw in a Python module that has remained unpatched for 15 years. The open source repositories span a number of industry verticals, such as software development, artificial intelligence/machine learning, web development, media, security, IT management. The shortcoming,
Last month Tech Crunch reported that payment terminal manufacturer Wiseasy had been hacked. Although Wiseasy might not be well known in North America, their Android-based payment terminals are widely used in the Asia Pacific region and hackers managed to steal passwords for 140,000 payment terminals. How Did the Wiseasy Hack Happen? Wiseasy employees use a cloud-based dashboard for remotely
Researchers have disclosed a new severe Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) vulnerability that could be exploited by users to access the virtual disks of other Oracle customers. "Each virtual disk in Oracle's cloud has a unique identifier called OCID," Shir Tamari, head of research at Wiz, said in a series of tweets. "This identifier is not considered secret, and organizations do not treat it as
A new wave of a mobile surveillance campaign has been observed targeting the Uyghur community as part of a long-standing spyware operation active since at least 2015, cybersecurity researchers disclosed Thursday. The intrusions, originally attributed to a threat actor named Scarlet Mimic back in January 2016, is said to have encompassed 20 different variants of the Android malware, which were
A malicious NPM package has been found masquerading as the legitimate software library for Material Tailwind, once again indicating attempts on the part of threat actors to distribute malicious code in open source software repositories. Material Tailwind is a CSS-based framework advertised by its maintainers as an "easy to use components library for Tailwind CSS and Material Design." "The
Can negotiating your firm’s ransomware payment actually be fun? Well, if it’s a game rather than the real thing then yes! The inventive bods at the Financial Times have created an imaginative ransomware negotiation simulator which lets you imagine you’re in the hot seat at a hacked company, trying to show more ...
Researchers reveal how your eyeglasses could be leaking secrets when you’re on video conferencing calls, we take a look at the recent data breaches involving Uber and Grand Theft Auto 6, and we cast an eye at what threats may be around the corner… All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of show more ...
