Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
06 July 2023
“IT staff validated the source of the data is previously released data in response to a Public Information Act request. The underlying server, database and storage, again, was not compromised,” the city’s IT department said.
06 July 2023
Hundreds of energy organizations could be exposed to attacks due to an actively exploited vulnerability affecting a solar power monitoring product made by Contec, vulnerability intelligence company VulnCheck warned on Wednesday.
06 July 2023
Mozilla on Tuesday announced the release of Firefox 115 to the stable channel with patches for a dozen security vulnerabilities, including two high-severity use-after-free bugs.
06 July 2023
The university denied any cyberattack and attributed the system's downtime to technical issues. Officials also claimed that the photos and screenshots shared by the hackers were fake and photoshopped.
06 July 2023
A suspected senior member of a French-speaking hacking crew known as OPERA1ER has been arrested as part of an international law enforcement operation codenamed Nervone, Interpol has announced.
"The group is believed to have stolen an estimated USD 11 million -- potentially as much as 30 million -- in more than 30 attacks across 15 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America," the agency said.
06 July 2023
Users clicking on seemingly legitimate ads for postal package tracking can be redirected to malicious websites that collect sensitive data, such as credit card details and banking credentials.
06 July 2023
Cybercriminals have adopted a deceptive strategy by introducing fake "Are You Human" checks. The aim of this malicious scheme is to trick unsuspecting individuals into granting unnecessary permissions, thereby exploiting their trust and potentially gaining unauthorized access to sensitive information. These websites, furthermore, exploit the granted permissions to establish a backdoor into your browser.
05 July 2023
The sixth annual report from Active Cyber Defence (ACD) highlights success of a “whole-of-society" approach in preventing millions of cyber attacks from reaching UK organisations and citizens each year.
05 July 2023
iHealth has settled with the Office for Civil Rights over potential Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy violations.
05 July 2023
Cait Conley, Senior Advisor to the Director, will take on additional responsibilities supporting CISA’s election security efforts.
05 July 2023
A recent cloud security study found that more than a third (39%) of businesses have experienced a data breach in their cloud environment last year.
05 July 2023
RedEnergy stealer uses a fake update campaign to target multiple industry verticals and possesses the ability to steal information from various browsers while also incorporating different modules for carrying out ransomware activities.
05 July 2023
Pepsi Bottling Ventures suffered a data breach in late 2022. The breach may have involved information of current and former employees.
05 July 2023
A sophisticated stealer-as-a-ransomware threat dubbed RedEnergy has been spotted in the wild targeting energy utilities, oil, gas, telecom, and machinery sectors in Brazil and the Philippines through their LinkedIn pages.
The malware "possesses the ability to steal information from various browsers, enabling the exfiltration of sensitive data, while also incorporating different modules for
05 July 2023
Check Point spotted a new campaign by a Chinese threat actor targeting diplomatic entities in Europe. Dubbed SmugX, the campaign uses HTML smuggling to deploy a new variant of PlugX RAT. The campaign reportedly overlaps with the activity of RedDelta and Mustang Panda. Organizations are advised to use the IOCs associated with the campaign to understand the attack pattern and implement effective security measures.
05 July 2023
Complete sexual assault case folios containing these details were among more than 300,000 files dumped online in March after the 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a $1 million ransom.
05 July 2023
The services of the company were suspended early Sunday and during the afternoon the company shared a Google spreadsheet showing crypto assets that have been stolen by the attackers.
05 July 2023
All container loading and unloading operations at the terminals using trailers have been canceled, causing massive financial losses to the port and severe disruption to the circulation of goods to and from Japan.
05 July 2023
Secrets are meant to be hidden or, at the very least, only known to a specific and limited set of individuals (or systems). Otherwise, they aren't really secrets. In personal life, a secret revealed can damage relationships, lead to social stigma, or, at the very least, be embarrassing. In a developer's or application security engineer's professional life, the consequences of exposing secrets
05 July 2023
Preliminary findings suggest that seven men, two women aged 19 to 27, and a 16-year-old facilitated the scam by providing their bank accounts, Internet banking credentials, and Singpass credentials to perpetrators for monetary gain.