This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Malicious hackers are initiating a new wave of ‘MFA fatigue attacks,’ in which they bombard victims with 2FA push alerts in an attempt to…
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The Ministry of Finance Proposed to Test Russians Before Buying Cryptocurrencies
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents On February 18, the Ministry of Finance submitted a bill on the regulation of cryptocurrencies to the government. At the same time, public discussions…
Several Vulnerabilities were Discovered in the Snap-Confine Function on Linux Systems
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Security researchers from Qualys uncovered various flaws in Canonical’s Snap software packaging and deployment system. Bharat Jogi, head of vulnerability and threat research at…
New Golang Botnet Drains Windows Users’ Cryptocurrency Wallets
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A new Golang-based botnet has been ensnaring hundreds of Windows PCs, each time its operators launch a new command and control (C2) server. This previously…
The Russian Expert Listed the Main Signs of Smartphone Surveillance
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Along with the unconditional benefits, the smart devices around us also carry a number of dangers. Thus, with the help of a smartphone, attackers…
Russia Suspected of Espionage Against Ukraine Via Two Big Nations
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents On Friday, the White House suspected Russia of being behind recent cyberattacks on Ukraine’s defense department and banking institutions. The statement by Anne Neuberger,…
PDC Discovered a Phishing Campaign that Spoofs Power BI Emails to Harvest Microsoft Credentials
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) has discovered a new phishing effort that impersonates Power BI emails in order to steal Microsoft credentials. Power…
Credit Cards Were Forged from a Prominent e-Cigarette Store
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Since being breached, Element Vape, a famous online retailer of e-cigarettes including vaping kits, is harboring a credit card skimmer on its website. In…
Malicious Emails have the Potential to Bring Down Cisco Email Security Appliances
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Cisco notified customers this week that its Email Security Appliance (ESA) product is vulnerable to a high-severity denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that may…
PseudoManuscrypt Malware Proliferating Similarly as CryptBot Targets Koreans
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Since at least May 2021, a botnet known as PseudoManuscrypt has been targeting Windows workstations in South Korea, using the same delivery methods as…
Google Announces Privacy Sandbox on Android to Restrict Sharing of User Data
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Google announced on Wednesday that it will extend its Privacy Sandbox activities to Android in an effort to broaden its privacy-focused, but less disruptive,…
Giant User Theft and Bot Attacks Target on Job Seekers
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Job seekers are viable targets for social manipulation efforts because applicants are emotionally weak and eager to provide any information to help them win…
The USA will Continue to Support Ukraine in Ensuring Cybersecurity
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The U.S. authorities will continue to support Ukraine aimed at improving its cybersecurity. U.S. Undersecretary of Homeland Security Robert Silvers said Thursday. He claimed…
Baltimore City was Duped Out of $376K
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A new report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reveals that a cyber-criminal posing as a vendor duped Baltimore city out of…
Malware Seller Faces Charges for Peddling WhatsApp Espionage Tools
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The US Justice Department (DoJ) reported a Mexican businessman named Carlos Guerrero admitted guilt in federal court for peddling spyware/hacking tools to clients in…
SquirrelWaffle Adds a Spin of Fraud to Exchange Server Malspamming
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Squirrelwaffle, ProxyLogon, and ProxyShell are being utilized against Microsoft Exchange Servers to conduct financial fraud via email hijacking. Sophos researchers revealed that a Microsoft…
ShadowPad Malware Attacks have been Linked to Chinese Ministry and PLA
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents ShadowPad, a sophisticated and modular backdoor that has been adopted by a growing number of Chinese threat organizations in recent years, has been revealed…
Malicious Excel Files are Now Being Used to Spread Emotet Malware
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Researchers discovered that the infamous Emotet malware has altered methods yet again, this time in an email campaign propagated by infected Excel files. In…
DDoS Attacks Hit Ukrainian Government Websites
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents DDoS attacks are causing havoc for the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as two of the country’s state-owned…
Trickbot has Corrupted over 140,000 Devices
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents As per cyber threat intelligence firm Test Level Analysis (CPR), Trickbot, a financial Trojan infection that targets businesses and consumers for personal data, has…
Customers Threatened by a Data Breach at Hong Kong’s Harbour Plaza Hotel
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Hong Kong’s privacy authority is looking into a hack against the Harbour Plaza hotel company, which revealed more than 1.2 million visitors’ booking information.…
NSW Government Database Compromises 500,000+ Addresses
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The government of New South Wales (NSW) has admitted to a data breach that exposed more than 500,000 addresses via a government website. According…
The DLBI Expert Called the Cost of Information about the Location of any Person
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Ashot Oganesyan, the founder of the DLBI data leak intelligence and monitoring service, said that the exact location of any Russian on the black market…
A Data Breach at a Croatian Phone Company Affects 200,000 Customers
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Croatian phone company ‘A1 Hrvatska’ has announced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 10% of its users, or approximately 200,000 persons.…
Hackers are Now Utilizing Office Documents to Launch the Regsvr32 Utility
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Regsvr32, a Windows living-off-the-land binary (LOLBin) used to propagate trojans like Lokibot and Qbot, is seeing a surge in abuse recently, according to researchers. …
Mitigating Software Security Flaws with Automation
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A group of UTSA researchers is investigating how a new automated approach could be used to prevent software security vulnerabilities. The team intended to…
The Ministry of Finance of Russia Named the Main Threat of Cryptocurrency Ban in Russia
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev said that the ban on cryptocurrencies and mining could slow down the development of new technologies and services, lead to…
Kimsuky Hackers Employ Commodity RATs with Custom Gold Dragon Backdoor
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Researchers in South Korea have discovered a fresh wave of activity from the Kimsuky hacking organization, employing commodity open-source remote access tools distributed with…
Spanish Police Arrested SIM Swappers who Stole Money from Victims Bank Accounts
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The Spanish National Police have arrested eight suspected members of a criminal organisation who used SIM swapping assaults to steal money from the victims’…
CNN Learned About the Preparation of the US Authorities to Repel Cyber Attacks from Russia
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents CNN reported citing US administration sources that representatives of the White House, US intelligence, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other agencies…
Facebook has Exposed a ‘God Mode’ Token that Might be Used to Harvest Data
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Brave stated that it is prohibiting the installation of the popular Chrome extension L.O.C. because it exposes users’ Facebook data to potential theft. “If…
Microsoft Discreetly Upgrades Defender Antivirus to Patch a Major Flaw
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Microsoft Defender, a protection software, has recently been updated to fix a severe security concern. The issue, which was traced back to 2014 and…
The Hacking Group ‘ModifiedElephant’ Remained Undetected
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents SentinelLabs’ IT security researchers have discovered information of growing cyber-attacks (APT) wherein the threat actors have been targeting human rights activists, free speech advocates,…
A Cyber-Attack has Disrupted Slovenia’s Most Popular TV Channel
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents In what appears to be an extortion attempt, a cyber-attack has crippled the operations of Pop TV, Slovenia’s most popular TV channel. The attack,…
ICO Struck by 2650% Rise in Email Attacks in 2021
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reported a whopping 2650% spike in email attacks in 2021, as per official numbers acquired by the Parliament…
Attackers Revive 20-Year-Old Tactic in Microsoft 365 Phishing Attacks
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A classic phishing tactic using mislabeled files is being used to deceive Microsoft 365 users into revealing their credentials. Malicious actors are dusting off…
By Attacking Healthcare, Education, and Government Systems, FritzFrog Botnet Grew Tenfold
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The FritzFrog botnet, which has been active for over two years, has revived with an alarming infection rate, growing tenfold in just a month…
Several Magento Sites were Targeted by a Surge of MageCart Attacks
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A large number of online stores using the Magento 1 e-commerce system were targeted by a web skimmer, according to Sansec, an eCommerce security…
Group-IB Found 140 Resources with Fraudulent Schemes under the Guise of Olympic Games Broadcasts
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Group-IB experts have identified 140 resources in the network that, under the guise of live broadcasts of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, redirect…
UK Foreign Office Suffered ‘Serious Cyber Security Incident’
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A “serious incident” compelled the Foreign Office of the United Kingdom to seek immediate cybersecurity assistance. A recently released public tender document confirmed the…
Iranian Hackers Employed a New Marlin Backdoor in a Surveillance Operation
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Iranian hackers are using the New Marlin backdoor as part of a long-running surveillance operation that began in April 2018. ESET, a Slovak cybersecurity…
Last Year, Brute-Forcing Passwords and ProxyLogon Exploits were Among the Most Common Attack Vectors
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Last year, brute-forcing passwords and exploiting ProxyLogon vulnerabilities against Microsoft Exchange Server were among the most prominent attack methods. According to ESET’s Q3 Threat…
Qbot Malware: Steals Your Data In 30 Minutes
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The large-scale spread of the Qbot malware (aka QuakBot or Qakbot) has taken up speed recently, as per the experts, it hardly takes around…
Free Decrypter Released for the TargetCompany Ransomware
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Good news for the TargetCompany victims, Czech cybersecurity software firm Avast has recently released a free decryptor tool that will facilitate victims of the…
Russian Man and his Wife Arrested in U.S. for Stealing Record $4.5 billion in Bitcoins
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Russian citizen Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan were arrested in the United States on Tuesday. The U.S. Justice Department in a statement called…
Pay to Play PrivateLoader Disseminates Smokeloader, Redline &Vidar malware
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents An investigation at a pay-per-install loader has revealed its role in the distribution of famous malware variants including Smokeloader and Vidar. Intel 471 issued…
Vodafone Portugal Services were Disrupted due to a Cyberattack
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Vodafone was the target of a network disruption that began on the night of February 7, 2022, as a result of an intentional and…
Hackers Linked to Palestine Use the New NimbleMamba Malware
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A Palestinian-aligned hacking organization has used a novel malware implant to target Middle Eastern governments, international policy think tanks, and a state-affiliated airline as…
The Reaction of Russian Hackers to the Arrests of REvil Became Known
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Russian hackers have made their own security issues a priority after the arrests of other cybercriminals, including from the REvil group. Dmitry Volkov, CEO, and…
An Israeli Spy Agency, QuaDream, Hacks Devices
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents According to Reuters, an Apple software loop exploited by Israeli spy firm NSO Group to hack access iPhones in 2021 was also targeted by…
Black Cat Ransomware Linked with Gangs DarkSide/BlackMatter
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The Black Cat Ransomware gang, aka ALPHV, confirmed that they were earlier associated with the infamous BlackMatter/DarkSide ransomware campaign. ALPHV/Black Cat is the latest ransomware…
Washington State Database Breach May Expose Personal Data
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The Washington State Department of Licensing stated that the personal information of possibly millions of licenced professionals may have been compromised, after discovering unusual…
North Korea Stealing Millions in Cyber Attacks
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A recent report of UN experts on cybersecurity threats has revealed that North Korea has not stopped stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from…
Meter Claimed that a Hack on the Platform Resulted in the Theft of $4.4 Million
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Meter, a blockchain infrastructure firm, says $4.4 million was stolen after an assault on the platform that began at 9 a.m. ET on Saturday.…
CISA Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in Airspan Networks Mimosa
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents On Thursday, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published Industrial Controls Systems Advisory (ICSA) warning report informing the Airspan Networks Mimosa…
The Examination of the Seized Equipment of the Lurk Group did not Reveal the Fact of an Attack on the US Government
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A law enforcement source said that the examination of the equipment seized from the members of the Lurk hacker group did not reveal traces…
Intuit Alerted About Phishing Emails Threatening to Delete Accounts
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Customers of accounting and tax software supplier Intuit have been warned of an ongoing phishing attack masquerading the organisation and attempting to mislead victims…
CoinStomp Malware is Aimed at Asian Cloud Service Providers
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Researchers have uncovered a new malware family that mines cryptocurrencies using cloud services. According to Cado Security, the malware, dubbed CoinStomp, is comprised of…
Office 365 Provides Email Protection Against Downgrade and MITM Attacks
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Microsoft adds SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) support feature in Exchange Online to improve Office 365 customers’ email security. Redmond disclosed MTA-STS’s release in…
European Oil Port Hubs Hit by a Cyberattack
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Hamburg, a major port part of northern Germany, was targeted by the cyberattack, as were at least six oil ports in Belgium and the…
Sberbank Called the Average Size of the Insurance Payment Cheated by Cybercriminals
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The cybersecurity company Positive Technologies said in January that customers of credit institutions who actively use online banking will become one of the main…
Morley Businesses Provider Uncovered a Ransomware Attack
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Morley, a business services company revealed this week , it had been the target of a ransomware assault which could have exposed the personal…
Chinese APT Actor Tracked as ‘Antlion’ Targeting Companies in Taiwan
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents It has been almost 18 months since the Chinese state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) actor tracked as ‘Antlion’ has been attacking financial institutions and…
Bankers Worried About Data Security, CSI Research Suggests
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Research published by Consumer Services (CSI) reveals increasing threats among bank executives in hiring new talent and facing cybercrime threats as a challenge. The survey…
Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in Zimbra Email Platform to Spy on Users
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents As part of spear-phishing campaigns that began in December 2021, a threat actor, most likely of Chinese origin, is proactively trying to attack a…
Exposed Corporate Credentials Endanger the Pharmaceutical Industry
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Constella Intelligence published a report that includes fresh and additional information relevant to pharma sector exposures, breaches, and leakages, with a specific focus on…
Bug Bounty Hunter Finds Google Drive Integration Vulnerability
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Implementation vulnerabilities in Google Drive integrations created various server-side-request-forgery (SSRF) flaws in various applications, say cybersecurity experts. It also includes Dropbox’s HelloSign, a digital signature…
CISA Issues Warning to Federal Agencies Regarding Actively Exploited Windows Flaw
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to address their systems against an actively exploited Windows vulnerability that allows…
Microsoft: Russian FSB Hackers Compromising Ukraine Since October
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Microsoft recently reported that a group of cybercriminals that are controlled by Russian intelligence known as Gamredon has been targeting various organizations in Ukraine,…
Forged Kubernetes Apps is used to Extract Sensitive Data from Argo CD Setups
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Argo CD is among the most popular Kubernetes continuous deployment technologies. Besides being easy to operate, it has a lot of power too. Kubernetes…
Attackers Gained Access to the Systems of the National Games of China
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents China has recently had its own national sporting event: the National Games of China began on September 15, 2021, in the Chinese city of…
Swissport Ransomware Attack Delays Flights, Disturbs Operations
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Swissport International, a supplier of aviation services, was struck by a ransomware attack that disrupted its operations. Swissport International Ltd. is an aviation services…
Walmart Dissects New ‘Sugar’ Ransomware
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The cyber threat researchers’ team at retail giant Walmart has found a new variant of ransomware named Sugar, which is available to threat actors…
Trend Micro Patches Critical Bugs in its Security Products
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Trend Micro has addressed two high-severity bugs impacting its hybrid cloud security devices. The researchers responsible for identifying the flaws have released the details…
Tennessee State University was Targeted by a Cyber Attack
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Officials say a data security breach at a Tennessee community college might just have resulted in a sensitive data breach of previous and present…
Target Reveals Its Personal Skimming Detection Tool
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Web skimming is a major problem for e-commerce shops and websites over the past few years. The attacks include simple script injections into payment platforms…
Threat actors are Looking for Ways to Bypass MFA with Evolving Phishing Kits
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents People have been concerned about information security since the first password was included in the Compatible Time-Sharing System at MIT in 1961. While multi-factor…
Hackers Steal Around $320M+ from Crypto Firm Wormhole
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A threat actor abused a vulnerability in the Wormhole cryptocurrency platform to steal $322 million worth of Ether currency. Wormhole Portal, a web-based application—also…
Durov Suspected WhatsApp of Intentionally Introducing Vulnerabilities
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Russian entrepreneur and founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov while criticizing the WhatsApp service said that the messenger, owned by Meta, was hardly…
BlackCat Ransomware Gang Employing Novel Techniques to Target Organizations
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Last year in December, malware researchers from Recorded Future and MalwareHunterTeam unearthed ALPHV (aka BlackCat), the first professional ransomware strain that was designed in…
Live XSS Flaw Exists in DMCA-dot-com
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The user interface of the takedowns website DMCA-dot-com has an active cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. It’s been there for almost a year and has…
IT Personnel Equally Susceptible to Phishing Attempts as the General Population
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents In a cyber threat survey wherein 82,402 IT employees from four different companies participated, it was discovered that even they are not immune to…
BATLOADER and Atera Agent are Being Distributed Through an SEO Poisoning Campaign
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A new SEO poisoning campaign is underway, with the purpose of infecting targeted systems with the BATLOADER and Atera Agent malware. It appears to…
Civicom Data Breach Disclosed 8TB of Files
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Civicom, a New York City-based company that provides audio, online videoconferencing, and market analysis services, has been discovered to be giving its customers access…
The Cat and Mouse Chase of Account Takeovers
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Cequence Security Threat Research Team analyzed more than 21 billion applications transactions between June and December of 2021, API-based account registration and login transactions raised…
Top-Ranking Banking Trojan Ramnit Stealing Payment Card Data
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Online Shopping has become increasingly popular these days, and it has accelerated since the COVID-19 pandemic the trend eventually exacerbated the cybersecurity threat. Online…
Iranian Hackers Employs PowerShell Backdoor to Bypass Security Products
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Security researchers from Cybereason have discovered that an advanced persistent threat organization with inbounds links to Iran has modified its malware toolset to incorporate…
Telco Penalized €9 Million for Obscuring Cyberattack Impact from Customers
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The Greek data protection authority imposed a fine on COSMOTE of 5,850,000 EUR ($6.55 million) and OTE was fined 3,250,000 EUR ($3.65 million) for…
More than 90% of Russians do not Finish Reading User Agreements on the Internet
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A study by the information security company ESET showed that Russian Internet users do not read user agreements on websites in 81% of cases. 13%…
Over 100,000 Files with Student Records from the British Council were Discovered Online
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents More than 100,000 files including student records from the British Council were discovered online. A cybersecurity firm uncovered an unsecured Microsoft Azure blob on…
SolarMarker Malware Utilize Cutting-Edge Techniques
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents The SolarMarker data thief and gateway operators have been identified using devious Windows Registry ways to maintain long-term persistence on infected systems, indicating that the…
Apple Awards Bounty of $100,500 for Finding Flaws in MacBook
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents In 2021, Apple patched a set of MacOs vulnerabilities exposing the Safari browser to attack and letting threat actors hack users’ online accounts, cameras, and…
Unsecure Amazon S3 bucket Exposes IDs of Airport Security Employees
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Securitas AB, a Sweden-based multinational security and investigation service provider has been discovered exposing sensitive data belonging to airport employees across Colombia and Peru. Earlier…
The Moscow Kremlin and the Russian Government Have Estimated the Russian Cryptocurrency Market at $214 Billion
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Bloomberg claims, citing its own sources that the Kremlin and the Russian government have estimated the Russian cryptocurrency market at $214 billion. This assessment…
2,77,000 Routers Vulnerable to ‘Eternal Silence’ Assaults via UPnP
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents ‘Eternal Silence,’ a malicious campaign, is exploiting Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), which switches the router into a proxy server used to execute nefarious…
Iranian APT MuddyWater Targets Turkish Public and Government Entities
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Cisco Talos discovered a brand new malicious campaign of MuddyWater threat group which is targeting Turkish public and Turkish government entities, including the Scientific…
In 2021, Ransomware Threats were Self-Installed
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents According to Expel, a managed detection and response (MDR) company, the majority of ransomware assaults in 2021 were self-installed. The revelation was made in…
SureMDM Vulnerabilities Expose Organizations to Supply Chain Attacks
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents A chain of vulnerabilities in 42Gears’ SureMDM device management products could have led to a supply chain disruption via the platform. 42Gears, based in Bangalore,…
68K People Who Received Services from Advocates were Affected by Data Theft
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Approximately 68,000 Advocates clients are being alerted that their personal and protected health information was stolen during a four-day incident in September 2021. Advocates…
DeepDotWeb Operator Sentenced to Eight Years for Role in $8.4 million Kickback Scheme
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents An Israeli national was sentenced to 97 months in prison in connection with operating the DeepDotWeb (DDW), a website that connected internet users with…