March 27, 2024
DataBreach TodayCybercrooks are exploring ways to develop custom, malicious large language models after existing tools such as WormGPT failed to cater to their demands for advanced intrusion capabilities, security researchers said. Undergrounds forums teem with hackers’ discussions about how to exploit […]
March 27, 2024
TechRadarWith email being the biggest business productivity tool out there, it’s no surprise that it’s also the main vehicle for cybercrime. Email phishing is the most common type of online exploitation, which grew by 173% in Q3 of 2023 compared […]
Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware
March 27, 2024
Security AffairsThe Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies uncovered an updated version of “TheMoon” bot targeting end-of-life (EoL) small home/small office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices. The new version of the bot has been spotted infecting thousands of outdated devices […]
Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware
March 26, 2024
Naked SecurityThere are two main ways to recover encrypted data in a ransomware attack: restoring from backups and paying the ransom. Compromising an organization’s backups enables adversaries to restrict their victim’s ability to recover encrypted data and dial-up the pressure to […]
March 25, 2024
The RegisterIf your Windows domain controllers have been crashing since a security update was installed earlier this month, there’s no longer any need to speculate why: Microsoft has admitted it introduced a memory leak in its March patches and fixed the […]
Hacker, Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware
March 25, 2024
Security AffairsProofpoint researchers observed the Iran-linked APT group MuddyWater (aka SeedWorm, TEMP.Zagros, TA450, and Static Kitten) was behind a new phishing campaign in March 2024 that attempted to drop a legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solution called Atera on the […]
March 25, 2024
The RegisterThe United States on Monday accused seven Chinese men of breaking into computer networks, email accounts, and cloud storage belonging to numerous critical infrastructure organizations, companies, and individuals, including US businesses, politicians, and their political parties. According to American prosecutors, […]
Application security, Security
March 22, 2024
Help Net SecurityDespite the critical role of APIs, the vast majority of commercial decision-makers are ignoring the burgeoning security risk for businesses, according to Fastly. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have long been recognised as a bedrock of the digital economy and recent […]
Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware
March 21, 2024
Help Net Security93% of IT professionals believe security threats are increasing in volume or severity, a significant rise from 47% last year, according to Thales. The number of enterprises experiencing ransomware attacks surged by over 27% in the past year. Despite this […]
March 21, 2024
TechRadarChromeOS is slated to receive some new privacy tools in a future update, and chief among them is the ability to control your Chromebook’s location privacy setting. According to a post on the Google Cloud blog, the feature is an […]
March 20, 2024
Help Net SecurityData loss is a problem stemming from the interaction between humans and machines, and ‘careless users’ are much more likely to cause those incidents than compromised or misconfigured systems, according to Proofpoint. While organizations are investing in Data Loss Prevention […]
Cyber-crime, Malware, Threats & Malware, Vulnerabilities
March 20, 2024
Security AffairsTrend Micro researchers are exploiting the recently disclosed vulnerabilities CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2024-27199 (CVSS score 7.3) security flaws in JetBrains TeamCity to deploy multiple malware families and gain administrative control over impacted systems. In early March, Rapid7 researchers […]
March 19, 2024
Security AffairsTrend Micro researchers uncovered a sophisticated campaign conducted by a threat actor tracked as Earth Krahang while investigating the activity of China-linked APT Earth Lusca. The campaign seems active since at least early 2022 and focuses primarily on government organizations. […]
March 19, 2024
Security WeekMintlify helps developers generate code documentation. It requires access to the source code, such as GitHub repositories, to analyze it, understand its purpose, and create descriptions. In an incident notice on its website, the San Francisco-based company says that 91 […]
March 19, 2024
Security AffairsThe Ukraine cyber police and the national police have arrested three individuals who are suspected to have hacked over 100 million emails and Instagram accounts worldwide and offered them for sale. The three men obtained the account credentials by carrying […]
Threats & Malware, Vulnerabilities
March 18, 2024
Security WeekThe research focused on WebGPU, an API that enables web developers to use the underlying system’s GPU to carry out high-performance computations in a web browser. By leveraging this API, they have demonstrated an attack that works entirely from the […]
March 18, 2024
Security WeekAccording to the company, it discovered that multiple work computers within its environment were infected with malware and disconnected them from the network. Furthermore, Fujitsu said in an incident notification written in Japanse, the investigation into the attack has revealed […]
March 15, 2024
Caitlin SimmonsCybersecurity has always been a game of cat and mouse, with all of us constantly having to brush up on the latest threats and defenses to be able to stand a chance at safety. Initially, businesses’ security efforts were pointed […]
March 15, 2024
TechRadarA French government agency suffered a cyberattack which has apparently resulted in the country’s largest-ever data leak incident, affecting as many as 43 million victims. The agency is called France Travail, the country’s unemployment registry and assistance organization, which helps […]
Cyber-crime, Data loss, Malware, Threats & Malware
March 14, 2024
Security AffairsNissan Oceania, the regional division of the multinational carmaker, announced in December 2023 that it had suffered a cyber attack and launched an investigation into the incident. Nissan immediately notified the Australian Cyber Security Centre and the New Zealand National […]