Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
19 September 2023
Bumblebee, a loader used by ransomware threat actors, has recently resurfaced with new distribution techniques and updates to make it more resilient and harder to disrupt.
19 September 2023
The CapraRAT mobile RAT hidden within these YouTube-themed apps gives the attacker control over various data on infected Android devices, including recording audio and video, collecting messages and call logs, and modifying files.
19 September 2023
The suspected Pakistan-linked threat actor known as Transparent Tribe is using malicious Android apps mimicking YouTube to distribute the CapraRAT mobile remote access trojan (RAT), demonstrating the continued evolution of the activity.
"CapraRAT is a highly invasive tool that gives the attacker control over much of the data on the Android devices that it infects," SentinelOne security
19 September 2023
Microsoft on Monday said it took steps to correct a glaring security gaffe that led to the exposure of 38 terabytes of private data.
The leak was discovered on the company's AI GitHub repository and is said to have been inadvertently made public when publishing a bucket of open-source training data, Wiz said. It also included a disk backup of two former employees' workstations containing secrets
18 September 2023
The victim shaming website operated by the cybercriminals behind 8Base -- currently one of the more active ransomware groups -- was until earlier today leaking quite a bit of information that the crime group probably did not intend to be made public. The leaked data suggests that at least some of website's code was written by a 36-year-old programmer residing in the capital city of Moldova.
18 September 2023
St. Luke's Health Systems in Boise, Idaho informed patients of a data breach involving Nuance Communications and MOVEit Transfer software.
18 September 2023
According to a report by Elliptic, the North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has stolen most of $240 million in crypto assets from multiple businesses, including Atomic Wallet ($100m), CoinsPaid ($37.3M), Alphapo ($60M), and Stake.com ($41M).
18 September 2023
Regarding how the hacking was successful, it is reported that the hacker compromised Buterin’s account and shared a post on his behalf, celebrating the arrival of Proto-Danksharding to the Ethereum platform.
18 September 2023
Earth Lusca, a China-linked threat actor, has developed a Linux variant of the backdoor malware SprySOCKS, which originated from the open-source Windows backdoor Trochilus, indicating their continued active operations and expansion.
18 September 2023
Thailand-based digital financial platform, CardX, experienced a data leak exposing personal information of customers, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails.
18 September 2023
Fortinet has released patches for a high-severity cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability impacting multiple FortiOS and FortiProxy versions.
It is tracked as CVE-2023-29183 and has a CVSS score of 7.3.
18 September 2023
A threat actor known as “USDoD” leaked highly sensitive data allegedly stolen from the credit reporting agency. The leaked database, over 3GB in size, contains sensitive PII of 58,505 people, all across the globe, including the Americas and Europe.
18 September 2023
Eric Johnson has been hired as Chief Information Officer at PagerDuty. Johnson will oversee critical IT infrastructure with two decades of experience.
18 September 2023
The Microsoft-owned healthcare technology firm Nuance revealed that the Clop extortion gang has stolen personal data on major North Carolina hospitals as part of the Progress MOVEit Transfer campaign.
18 September 2023
TikTok is flooded by a surge of fake cryptocurrency giveaways posted to the video-sharing platform, with almost all of the videos pretending to be themes based on Elon Musk, Tesla, or SpaceX.
18 September 2023
A novel cloud-native cryptojacking operation has set its eyes on uncommon Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings such as AWS Amplify, AWS Fargate, and Amazon SageMaker to illicitly mine cryptocurrency.
The malicious cyber activity has been codenamed AMBERSQUID by cloud and container security firm Sysdig.
"The AMBERSQUID operation was able to exploit cloud services without triggering the AWS
18 September 2023
When you roll out a security product, you assume it will fulfill its purpose. Unfortunately, however, this often turns out not to be the case. A new report, produced by Osterman Research and commissioned by Silverfort, reveals that MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) and PAM (Privileged Access Management) solutions are almost never deployed comprehensively enough to provide resilience to identity
18 September 2023
Google says that starting in 2024, all Chromebooks released after 2021 will automatically qualify for ten years of security updates, delivered automatically to the device every four weeks.
18 September 2023
A new analysis of the Android banking trojan known as Hook has revealed that it's based on its predecessor called ERMAC.
"The ERMAC source code was used as a base for Hook," NCC Group security researchers Joshua Kamp and Alberto Segura said in a technical analysis published last week.
"All commands (30 in total) that the malware operator can send to a device infected with ERMAC malware, also
18 September 2023
Trucking and fleet management solutions provider ORBCOMM has confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind recent service outages preventing trucking companies from managing their fleets.