Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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New Cyberattack Targets Chinese-Speaking Businesses with Cobalt Strike Payloads

Chinese-speaking users are the target of a "highly organized and sophisticated attack" campaign that is likely leveraging phishing emails to infect Windows systems with Cobalt Strike payloads. "The attackers managed to move laterally, establish persistence and remain undetected within the systems for more than two weeks," Securonix researchers Den Iuzvyk and Tim Peck said in a new report. The

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Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability Exploited in Crypto Mining Campaigns

Threat actors are actively exploiting a now-patched, critical security flaw impacting the Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server to conduct illicit cryptocurrency mining on susceptible instances. "The attacks involve threat actors that employ methods such as the deployment of shell scripts and XMRig miners, targeting of SSH endpoints, killing competing crypto mining processes,

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Vietnamese Human Rights Group Targeted in Multi-Year Cyberattack by APT32

A non-profit supporting Vietnamese human rights has been the target of a multi-year campaign designed to deliver a variety of malware on compromised hosts. Cybersecurity company Huntress attributed the activity to a threat cluster known as APT32, a Vietnamese-aligned hacking crew that's also known as APT-C-00, Canvas Cyclone (formerly Bismuth), Cobalt Kitty, and OceanLotus. The intrusion is

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Breach exposed information of more than 500,000 credit union members

Security leaders discuss the Texas Dow Employees Credit Union breach that impacted more than 500,000 members. 

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Russian Hackers Exploit Safari and Chrome Flaws in High-Profile Cyberattack

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged multiple in-the-wild exploit campaigns that leveraged now-patched flaws in Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers to infect mobile users with information-stealing malware. "These campaigns delivered n-day exploits for which patches were available, but would still be effective against unpatched devices," Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researcher Clement

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Critical Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow Vulnerability Patched (CVE-2024-6633)

The flaw, known as CVE-2024-6633, involves the use of default credentials for the HSQL database, which could compromise the software's confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

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Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations

The Pioneer Kitten attackers are monetizing their access to compromised organizations' networks by selling domain admin credentials and full domain control privileges on cybercrime marketplaces.

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76% of MSPs faced an infrastructure cyberattack in last 12 months

MSP security was analyzed in a recent report finding that 76% of MSPs spotted a cyberattack on their infrastructure within the last 12 months.

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More than 650,000 education records exposed in the past 60 days

More than 650,000 records across various educational institutions have been exposed in the last 60 days. 

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U.S. Agencies Warn of Iranian Hacking Group's Ongoing Ransomware Attacks

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have called out an Iranian hacking group for breaching multiple organizations across the country and coordinating with affiliates to deliver ransomware. The activity has been linked to a threat actor dubbed Pioneer Kitten, which is also known as Fox Kitten, Lemon Sandstorm (formerly Rubidium), Parisite, and UNC757, which it described as connected to

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How AitM Phishing Attacks Bypass MFA and EDR—and How to Fight Back

Attackers are increasingly using new phishing toolkits (open-source, commercial, and criminal) to execute adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. AitM enables attackers to not just harvest credentials but steal live sessions, allowing them to bypass traditional phishing prevention controls such as MFA, EDR, and email content filtering. In this article, we’re going to look at what AitM phishing

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Unpatched AVTECH IP Camera Flaw Exploited by Hackers for Botnet Attacks

A years-old high-severity flaw impacting AVTECH IP cameras has been weaponized by malicious actors as a zero-day to rope them into a botnet. CVE-2024-7029 (CVSS score: 8.7), the vulnerability in question, is a "command injection vulnerability found in the brightness function of AVTECH closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras that allows for remote code execution (RCE)," Akamai researchers Kyle

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Threat Group 'Bling Libra' Pivots to Extortion for Cloud Attacks

The threat group known as Bling Libra, previously linked to the Ticketmaster data breach, has shifted to the double extortion strategy in cloud attacks, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42.

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Hundreds of LLM Servers Expose Corporate, Health & Other Online Data

Flowise, a popular low-code tool backed by Y Combinator, was particularly at risk due to an authentication bypass vulnerability that allowed access to sensitive information such as GitHub tokens and API keys in plaintext.

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AWS Load Balancer Plagued by Authentication Bypass Flaw

Miggo has uncovered a security flaw in AWS Load Balancer that could allow cybercriminals to bypass authentication and authorization services, potentially affecting over 15,000 applications.

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CISA Adds Google Chromium V8 Bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Google released a security update this week to address the actively exploited Chrome zero-day vulnerability. The vulnerability, CVE-2024-7965, is an inappropriate implementation issue in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

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New Unicode QR Code Phishing Scam Bypasses Traditional Security

Cybercriminals are using Unicode QR codes in a new type of phishing attack that can bypass traditional security measures, putting users at risk of visiting malicious websites and having their data stolen.

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Researchers Unmasked the Notorious Threat Actor USDoD

CrowdStrike researchers have uncovered the identity of the hacker USDoD, also known as EquationCorp, responsible for multiple high-profile data breaches. According to a report from TecMundo, USDoD is a man named Luan BG from Brazil.

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French Authorities Charge Telegram CEO with Facilitating Criminal Activities on Platform

French prosecutors on Wednesday formally charged CEO Pavel Durov with facilitating a litany of criminal activity on the popular messaging platform and placed him under formal investigation following his arrest Saturday. Russian-born Durov, who is also a French citizen, has been charged with being complicit in the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as well as enabling organized crime,

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When Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts Look Like Phishing

Multiple media reports this week warned Americans to be on guard against a new phishing scam that arrives in a text message informing recipients they are not yet registered to vote. A bit of digging reveals the missives were sent by a California political consulting firm as part of a well-meaning but potentially counterproductive get-out-the-vote effort that had all the hallmarks of a phishing campaign.