The notorious 8BASE ransomware group has allegedly targeted four new victims, adding to the growing list of organizations falling prey to their data-extortion cybercrime operation . This latest 8BASE ransomware attack includes three American companies and one Canadian firm – Employ Milwaukee, Horizon Spa & Pool show more ...
Among the myriad of new ransomware groups on the dark web, a noteworthy addition has surfaced – the WereWolves ransomware group. This new ransomware group has already claimed 21 victims, with 14 in Russia and 7 spread across the USA, France, Netherlands, Germany, Serbia, and Macedonia. Among the new ransomware show more ...
The festive season is upon us, and that means its time to think about presents again. And not just for close friends and loved ones, but everyone else in your world: coworkers, relatives, and so on. And that means figuring out what to buy for them all, then heading to the stores in the pre-Christmas crush to do battle show more ...
The official website of Paris 2024 has issued a crucial warning to stakeholders, revealing a surge in fraudulent activities targeting restaurants and catering businesses in France. According to the notice, several individuals and companies are falsely posing as authorized representatives of PARIS 2024 and its official show more ...
German law enforcement agencies have successfully taken down Kingdom Market, a notorious darknet marketplace serving as a hub for illegal goods and services. The Kingdom Market shutdown, part of an internationally coordinated effort, saw the seizure of the marketplace’s server infrastructure spread across show more ...
Moscow's Rosvodokanal water-management company was ransacked by Ukraine-aligned Blackjack group, with reports that the company's IT infrastructure was "destroyed."
The shadowy threat actor uses some nifty tricks to drop popular malware with targets that meet its specifications.
No good deed goes unpunished, as a national push to combat SIM fraud has introduced new logistical and privacy issues for ordinary citizens.
The help desk is under siege from AI-based and other attacks. Next-gen tactics call for in-depth cyber-defense strategies.
Cybercriminals are increasingly using AI tools to launch successful attacks, but defenders are battling back.
In the first half of 2022, intercepted emails represented 10% of total correspondences, rising to almost 18% during the same period in 2023.
A more sophisticated version of a "work in progress" malware is impersonating a Google Chrome app to attack a wider swath of mobile users.
Instruction set architecture extensions are moving the cybersecurity fight from the software to the hardware layer.
The text messages threaten fines if the victims don't provide personal and financial details.
So you've had a data breach, and now you need to take the next step. Here's a guide for communicators dealing with security incidents from Ashley Sawatsky of Rootly.
The German police, along with international law enforcement agencies, have seized the dark web marketplace Kingdom Market, which offered drugs, malware, stolen data, and forged documents.
The scam tweets often appear to be from well-known crypto accounts like Binance and Ethereum, but they lead to unrelated users promoting fake giveaways, wallet-draining websites, and pump-and-dump schemes.
Prompt injection poses a significant threat to LLM integrity, especially when LLM-powered agents interact with external systems, and safeguarding their operations requires meticulous attention to confidentiality levels and access controls.
The security updates for Firefox 121 include patches for critical vulnerabilities like a heap buffer overflow bug in WebGL and a side-channel attack vulnerability in Network Security Services (NSS) NIST curves.
Cybersecurity training startup SimSpace has raised $45 million in a funding round led by L2 Point Management, bringing its total raised to $70 million. It creates digital replicas of organizations' tech and networking stacks for training purposes.
Matveev and his team demonstrate a significant disregard for ethical values in their cyber operations, engaging in tactics such as threatening to leak sensitive files and retaining files even after the ransom is paid.
The tool extracts firmware, conducts static and dynamic analysis, and generates web-based reports. Some unique features include enhanced firmware extraction, UEFI analysis, AI support, firmware diffing mechanisms, and user mode emulation.
The leaked information, including phone numbers, email addresses, encrypted passwords, and vehicle rental details, could be exploited by cybercriminals for financial gain and fraudulent activities.
The attack occurred on September 28 and resulted in data being stolen before the hackers encrypted company systems. The breach impacted patients associated with ESO's customers, including hospitals and clinics in the US.
The leaked data, which included information on property history, tax records, and mortgage details, could be exploited by threat actors for social engineering and financial fraud.
The trojan is distributed through WhatsApp messages, prompting users to download an APK for a mandatory verification procedure. Once installed, it collects personal and financial information and intercepts SMS messages to steal verification codes.
Companies are reassessing their incident response plans and determining the materiality of cyber incidents. The SEC aims to improve companies' preparedness to mitigate breaches and attacks.
HCL Technologies has reported a ransomware attack on one of its projects in an isolated cloud environment. The company stated that the incident has had no impact on its overall network and that cybersecurity and data protection are top priorities.
These scammers create fake delivery notification sites that mimic legitimate postal operators and use official names, logos, and typosquatted URLs to appear more convincing.
This attack was seen as retaliation for an earlier cyberattack on Kyivstar, a phone company in Ukraine, which was attributed to Russian hackers. There are suspicions that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) may have played a role in the attack.
Subdominator is a highly accurate and fast open-source tool for identifying subdomain takeovers, offering significant improvements over existing tools in terms of fingerprint accuracy and count, nested DNS support, and alternate DNS record matching.
The campaign sends phishing emails pretending to be from Meta, Instagram's parent company, claiming that the recipient's account has been restricted due to copyright infringement.
The use of AI in cybersecurity has created a cycle where both cyber professionals and cybercriminals employ AI to enhance their tools and techniques. However, there are limitations and trust issues with AI security solutions.
The attacker takes advantage of a vulnerability in F5's BIG-IP and tricks recipients into downloading a file that is supposed to be an update for the vulnerability. However, the file actually contains a wiper that deletes F5 servers.
Ivanti's Avalanche enterprise MDM solution has been found to have 13 critical security vulnerabilities, including buffer overflow weaknesses, that can be exploited by attackers to gain remote code execution on unpatched systems.
Google has released emergency updates to fix a zero-day vulnerability in the Chrome browser. The vulnerability, known as CVE-2023-7024, is a heap buffer overflow issue in WebRTC.
This Metasploit module exploits a command injection vulnerability in Vinchin Backup & Recovery v5.0.*, v6.0.*, v6.7.*, and v7.0.*. Due to insufficient input validation in the checkIpExists API endpoint, an attacker can execute arbitrary commands as the web server user.
A buffer overflow exists in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. It has been dubbed Looney Tunables. This issue allows an local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBC_TUNABLES when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code in the show more ...
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5581-1 - Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code, sandbox escape or clickjacking.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7886-03 - An update for tigervnc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7885-03 - An update for the postgresql:15 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include integer overflow and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7884-03 - An update for the postgresql:15 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Issues addressed include integer overflow and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7883-03 - An update for the postgresql:15 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include integer overflow and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7612-03 - A new release of the Red Hat build of Quarkus is now available. This new release comes packed with a host of enhancements, bug fixes, and security fixes. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring show more ...
This is a Linux/portable port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH. OpenSSH is based on the last free version of Tatu Ylonen's SSH with all patent-encumbered algorithms removed, all known security bugs fixed, new features reintroduced, and many other clean-ups.
On December 20, 2023, Rosvodokanal, the Russian water utility firm, experienced a alleged cyberattack perpetrated by the Ukrainian hacker group Blackjack. Multiple undisclosed law enforcement sources confirmed the occurrence of a cyberattack on the IT infrastructure of the Russian water utility. The announcement of show more ...
Officials have confirmed that the London Public Library cyberattack is attributed for the branch closures and service disruptions; they are attempting to repair the damage with the assistance of a third-party security firm. The attack limited the services offered by the library and closed three of its sixteen branches. show more ...
ESO Solutions, a key player in healthcare solutions, discloses a massive data breach impacting a staggering 2.7 million patients nationwide. This ESO Solutions data breach, originating from a ransomware attack in September 2023, has laid bare sensitive personal information, encompassing names, Social Security numbers, show more ...
Attackers are weaponizing an old Microsoft Office vulnerability as part of phishing campaigns to distribute a strain of malware called Agent Tesla. The infection chains leverage decoy Excel documents attached in invoice-themed messages to trick potential targets into opening them and activate the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882 (CVSS score: 7.8), a memory corruption vulnerability in Office's
Google has rolled out security updates for the Chrome web browser to address a high-severity zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-7024, has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow bug in the WebRTC framework that could be exploited to result in program crashes or arbitrary code execution. Clément
German law enforcement has announced the disruption of a dark web platform called Kingdom Market that specialized in the sales of narcotics and malware to "tens of thousands of users." The exercise, which involved collaboration from authorities from the U.S., Switzerland, Moldova, and Ukraine, began on December 16, 2023, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) said. Kingdom
A new piece of JavaScript malware has been observed attempting to steal users' online banking account credentials as part of a campaign that has targeted more than 40 financial institutions across the world. The activity cluster, which employs JavaScript web injections, is estimated to have led to at least 50,000 infected user sessions spanning North America, South America, Europe, and Japan.
John Hanley of IBM Security shares 4 key findings from the highly acclaimed annual Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 What is the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report? The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report is an annual report that provides organizations with quantifiable information about the financial impacts of breaches. With this data, they can make data driven decisions about how they implement
A new analysis of the sophisticated commercial spyware called Predator has revealed that its ability to persist between reboots is offered as an "add-on feature" and that it depends on the licensing options opted by a customer. "In 2021, Predator spyware couldn't survive a reboot on the infected Android system (it had it on iOS)," Cisco Talos researchers Mike Gentile, Asheer Malhotra, and Vitor
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of an Android banking malware called Chameleon that has expanded its targeting to include users in the U.K. and Italy. "Representing a restructured and enhanced iteration of its predecessor, this evolved Chameleon variant excels in executing Device Takeover (DTO) using the accessibility service, all while expanding its targeted region,
Piers Morgan is less than happy after a judgement that there is "no doubt" he knew phone hacking was going on at the Daily Mirror, and a shopper comes a-cropper just before Christmas. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Unwrapping a new gadget this holiday season will put a big smile on your face but things may quickly turn sour if the device and data on it aren’t secured properly
Source: heimdalsecurity.com – Author: Livia Gyongyoși The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) announced on December 19th that the Federal Bureau of Investigations had disrupted the BlackCat ransomware threat group’s activity. The FBI offered a decryption tool to more than 500 affected victims. They also encourage show more ...
Source: heimdalsecurity.com – Author: Livia Gyongyoși Security researchers discovered a new JaskaGO malware stealer that can infect both Windows and macOS. JaskaGO uses various methods to persist in the infected system. Researchers observed various malware versions impersonating installers for legitimate show more ...
Source: heimdalsecurity.com – Author: Cristian Neagu In a perfect world, you’d have the resources to defend yourself against every possible cybersecurity threat and vulnerability. The reality, however, is that even the largest organizations have limited resources to dedicate to cybersecurity. An effective show more ...
Source: heimdalsecurity.com – Author: Livia Gyongyoși The Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) is a data-driven tool highlighting what vulnerabilities hackers will likely exploit. EPSS was created by a group of experts at the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST). Its purpose is to make it show more ...
Source: heimdalsecurity.com – Author: Cristian Neagu Kyivstar, Ukraine’s main provider of telecommunication services, says that it’s been the target of a ‘powerful hacker attack’. The attack left customers without mobile or internet signal and caused the air raid sirens in the northeastern city of Sumy show more ...
Source: heimdalsecurity.com – Author: Livia Gyongyoși Researchers warn Lazarus threat actors still exploit known Log4j vulnerability to infect devices with new DLang malware strains. The new campaign, dubbed Operation Blacksmith, became active on March 23. Hackers target manufacturing, agricultural, and show more ...
Source: thehackernews.com – Author: . Dec 20, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Data Breach Ransomware groups are increasingly switching to remote encryption in their attacks, marking a new escalation in tactics adopted by financially motivated actors to ensure the success of their campaigns. show more ...
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley Piers Morgan is less than happy after a judgement that there is “no doubt” he knew phone hacking was going on at the Daily Mirror, and a shopper comes a-cropper just before Christmas. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing show more ...
Source: www.bitdefender.com – Author: Graham Cluley The US Department of Justice has announced that it has disrupted the operations of the ALPHV ransomware group, and seized decryption keys that could help 500 victims unscramble their files without having to pay a ransom. The Russian-speaking ALPHV (also known show more ...
Source: www.cybertalk.org – Author: slandau EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The cyber security landscape is transforming at an exciting, yet sometimes unnerving pace. As the landscape becomes both broad and nuanced, modern CISOs must now sift through a staggering amount of information. Separate the signal from the noise. show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Ed Maste Source: ChiccoDodiFC via Alamy Stock Photo The eternal cat-and-mouse game pitting IT security improvements against evolving attacker exploits is usually framed as an arms race of rising software sophistication. Security teams implement firewall software, antivirus show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Edge Editors Source: DPD ImageStock via Alamy Stock Photo Question: How can organizations effectively communicate with users and external stakeholders in a security incident? Ashley Sawatsky, Senior Incident Response Advocate, Rootly: No matter how well-prepared you are, show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: PRESS RELEASE MARLTON, N.J., Dec. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Approximately 2.7 million patients are being notified that their Social Security numbers and other confidential information were compromised when an unauthorized party gained access to ESO Solutions’ show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: PRESS RELEASE LONDON, Dec. 20, 2023 — Black Hat, the cybersecurity industry’s most established and in-depth security event series, today announced the successful completion of the in-person component of Black Hat Europe 2023. The event welcomed more than 3,600 unique show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Becky Bracken, Editor, Dark Reading 2 Min Read Source: Sari O’Neal via Alamy Stock Photo BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware leaders claim they have restarted operations on the group’s primary blog, despite the Department of Justice claim that it gained control of the show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Tara Seals, Managing Editor, News, Dark Reading 2 Min Read Source: Stephen Barnes Technology via Alamy Stock Photo Cyberattackers can exploit access control measures installed on supposedly secure facility doors to gain unauthorized building access to sensitive locations show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: John Leyden Source: Denis Crawford via Alamy Stock Photo An Iran-backed cyberespionage group is actively targeting telcos in North and East Africa. According to security researchers at Symantec, the latest cyberattacks by the advanced persistent threat (APT) it calls show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Lawrence Abrams The Israel National Cyber Directorate warns of phishing emails pretending to be F5 BIG-IP zero-day security updates that deploy Windows and Linux data wipers. Israel’s National Cyber Directorate (INCD) acts as the CERT responsible for protecting show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Google has released emergency updates to fix another Chrome zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild, the eighth patched since the start of the year. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-7024 exists in the wild,” a security show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Lawrence Abrams Cryptocurrency scammers are abusing a legitimate Twitter “feature” to promote scams, fake giveaways, and fraudulent Telegram channels used to steal your crypto and NFTs. On X, formerly and more widely known as Twitter, a post’s URL show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Bill Toulas A new phishing campaign pretending to be a ‘copyright infringement’ email attempts to steal the backup codes of Instagram users, allowing hackers to bypass the two-factor authentication configured on the account. Two-factor authentication is a show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Ivanti has released security updates to fix 13 critical security vulnerabilities in the company’s Avalanche enterprise mobile device management (MDM) solution. Avalanche allows admins to manage over 100,000 mobile devices from a single, central show more ...
Source: www.techrepublic.com – Author: Megan Crouse on December 20, 2023, 4:15 PM EST BlackCat/ALPHV Ransomware Site Seized in International Takedown Effort The ransomware group, which has distributed ransomware to more than 1,000 victims, reportedly recovered control of its website on Tuesday. Learn how to show more ...
Source: www.techrepublic.com – Author: Ben Abbott The year 2023 was a big year for cyber security professionals in Australia. While IT teams continued to deal with the fallout of some big Australian data breaches, the new 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy was released to boost defences against future show more ...
Source: www.techrepublic.com – Author: Ray Fernandez The rise and rapid adoption of new innovative technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence, no-code apps, automation and the Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the global cybersecurity and compliance landscape for every industry. show more ...
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Mozilla last week revised its position on a web security technology called Trusted Types, which it has decided to implement in its Firefox browser. By so doing, the browser biz will help reduce a longstanding form of web attack that relies on injected code. show more ...
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register NASA’s Office of Inspector General has run its eye over the aerospace agency’s privacy regime and found plenty to like – but improvements are needed. In an audit [PDF] published Tuesday, the OIG found NASA has a “comprehensive privacy show more ...
