Low code, no code and zero code are buzzwords in the world of business apps in which tasks that once required programmers are done by ordinary users. The required functionality is assembled from ready-made templates, the interface is drawn in a WYSIWYG editor as necessary, and the program logic is described by way of show more ...
If you’ve ever owned a domain name, the chances are good that at some point you’ve received a snail mail letter which appears to be a bill for a domain or website-related services. In reality, these misleading missives try to trick people into paying for useless services they never ordered, don’t show more ...
Cybercriminals employ obfuscated script to stealthily hijack victim server bandwidth for use in legitimate proxy networks.
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Israel's cyber head points finger at Iran-backed MuddyWater APT group as the perpetrator of a recent attack against a university.
Attribution for the cyberattack on Dozor-Teleport remains murky, but the effects are real — downed communications and compromised data.
Some 340,000 FortiGate SSL VPN appliances remain exposed to the threat more than three weeks after Fortinet released firmware updates to address the issue.
When you just keep filing it away to handle "someday," security debt typically rears its head when you are most vulnerable and can least afford to pay it.
Iranian threat actor Charming Kitten introduced the new version of its PowerStar backdoor malware. The updated malware utilizes the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) and publicly accessible cloud hosting for its decryption function and configuration details. The latest iteration of the backdoor unveils enhanced show more ...
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added half a dozen flaws affecting Samsung smartphones to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, and they have all likely been exploited by a commercial spyware vendor.
The early adoption of generative AI or any nascent technology, particularly LLMs, requires comprehensive risk assessment and adherence to robust security practices throughout the entire software development life cycle (SDLC).
CISA, in an advisory issued Thursday, said the deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability identified in Medtronic's Paceart Optima, versions 1.11 and earlier, is exploitable remotely and has a low attack complexity.
Officials across at least five US states, including Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, are investigating hacking claims by a suspected politically motivated group against websites connected to local governments.
The claims of a direct hack of its IT systems were quashed by a TSMC spokesperson who told Information Security Media Group the data leak actually had affected Kinmax Technology Inc., one of its IT hardware suppliers.
Researchers have pulled back the curtain on an updated version of an Apple macOS malware called RustBucket that comes with improved capabilities to establish persistence and avoid detection by security software.
U.S. prosecutors obtained a guilty plea Thursday from a third Nigerian man, Chibundu Joseph Anuebunwa, accused of participating in a business email compromise (BEC) ring in the mid-2010s.
Cait Conley, a senior adviser to CISA Director Jen Easterly, will assume “additional responsibilities,” including supervising election security and protecting voters from disinformation campaigns.
The Illinois law, known as the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), mandates companies that collect or obtain an Illinois resident’s biometric identifier to alert that individual beforehand and get their consent in writing.
According to Nexusguard, the top three DDoS attack vectors in 2022 were NTP (network time protocol) amplification, memcached, and UDP attacks. UDP-based attacks increased 121.3% year-over-year (YoY).
The GuLoader malware campaign utilizes a multi-stage infection chain, including a PDF lure, a GuLoader VBScript, and obfuscated Powershell scripts, to deliver the Remcos RAT.
Phishing mongers have released a torrent of image-based junk emails that embed QR codes into their bodies to successfully bypass security protections and provide a level of customization to more easily fool recipients, researchers said.
A multi-national policing operation has led to the arrest of dozens of suspects including the alleged boss of an organized crime operation that targeted elderly victims with scam phone calls, according to Europol.
While no HHS systems or networks were compromised, attackers gained access to HHS data by exploiting the vulnerability in the MOVEit software used by third-party vendors, the official said.
94% of global respondents believe their hybrid cloud security offers full visibility into IT infrastructure, yet almost one-third of security breaches go undetected by IT pros, according to a Gigamon report.
"The Meduza Stealer has a singular objective: comprehensive data theft," Uptycs said in a new report. "It pilfers users' browsing activities, extracting a wide array of browser-related data."
Officials across at least five US states, including Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, are investigating hacking claims by a suspected politically motivated group against websites connected to local governments.
Police in Britain are investigating multiple incidents in which national exam papers for school-leavers were stolen by hackers and sold online to students seeking to cheat on their tests.
Pay and benefits details of Dublin Airport staff were compromised in a cyberattack on professional service provider Aon, highlighting the vulnerability of supply chain attacks.
A Chinese nation-state group has been observed targeting Foreign Affairs ministries and embassies in Europe using HTML smuggling techniques to deliver the PlugX remote access trojan on compromised systems.
Hundreds of thousands of FortiGate firewalls are vulnerable to a critical security issue identified as CVE-2023-27997, almost a month after Fortinet released an update that addresses the problem.
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the first time cyber experts at GCHQ responded to a foreign state hacking the British government, the intelligence and security agency revealed on Friday.
Anuranan SBAdmin version 2.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.
Webpower UPS version 5.53 suffers from an HTTP denial of service vulnerability. This product stop being supported nearly 10 years ago.
XEL CMS version 1.1 suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability.
XDR can lower platform costs and improve detection, but it requires committing to a few principles that go against the established way of thinking about SOC.
Threat actors associated with the BlackCat ransomware have been observed employing malvertising tricks to distribute rogue installers of the WinSCP file transfer application. "Malicious actors used malvertising to distribute a piece of malware via cloned webpages of legitimate organizations," Trend Micro researchers said in an analysis published last week. "In this case, the distribution
In yet another sign of a lucrative crimeware-as-a-service (CaaS) ecosystem, cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Windows-based information stealer called Meduza Stealer that's actively being developed by its author to evade detection by software solutions. "The Meduza Stealer has a singular show more ...
Every website owner or webmaster grapples with the issue of spam on their website forms. The volume of spam can be so overwhelming that finding useful information within it becomes quite challenging. What exacerbates this issue is that spam can populate your public pages, appearing in comments and reviews. You likely understand how this can damage your website's reputation, affect search results
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has placed a set of eight flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. This includes six shortcomings affecting Samsung smartphones and two vulnerabilities impacting D-Link devices. All the flaws have been patched as of 2021. CVE-2021-25394 (CVSS score: 6.4) - Samsung mobile
A Chinese nation-state group has been observed targeting Foreign Affairs ministries and embassies in Europe using HTML smuggling techniques to deliver the PlugX remote access trojan on compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm Check Point said the activity, dubbed SmugX, has been ongoing since at least December 2022. "The campaign uses new delivery methods to deploy (most notably – HTML Smuggling)
Staff at Dublin Airport have been warned that their personal data has fallen into the hands of hackers, following a data breach at a third-party service provider. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Here are some of the key insights on the evolving data breach landscape as revealed by Verizon’s analysis of more than 16,000 incidents
