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06 May 2023
According to new data by Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL), Kekw malware can steal sensitive information from infected systems and perform clipper activities that can hijack cryptocurrency transactions.
06 May 2023
Social media giant Meta took down hundreds of fake Facebook and Instagram accounts used by South Asia advanced persistent threat groups to glean sensitive information and coax users into installing malware.
06 May 2023
Canadian diversified software company Constellation Software confirmed on Thursday that some of its systems were breached by threat actors who also stole personal information and business data.
06 May 2023
Users of Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress are being urged to update version 6.1.6 following the discovery of a security flaw.
The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-30777, relates to a case of reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) that could be abused to inject arbitrary executable scripts into otherwise benign websites.
The plugin, which is available both as a free and pro
05 May 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On May 1st, a group of cyber criminals hacked into and gained control over a U.S. university’s emergency alert system. Students at Bluefield University received the following unexpected message: “Hello students of Bluefield University! We’re Avoslocker Ransomwar. We hacked the university network to exfiltrate 1.2 TB files…We have admissions data from thousands of […]
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05 May 2023
Vice President Harris and other White House officials met with security leaders to address risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI).
05 May 2023
A tech industry adult education program is being offered by Virginia Commonwealth University and the Institute of Data to help fill the talent gap.
05 May 2023
Security researchers warn that the 'Advanced Custom Fields' and 'Advanced Custom Fields Pro' WordPress plugins, with millions of installs, are vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks (XSS).
05 May 2023
“Access to the site has been disrupted since this morning,” the upper house of Parliament said on Twitter shortly before midday, saying a team was busy fixing the problem.
05 May 2023
Three security vulnerabilities in the Azure API Management service could be exploited to perform various types of malicious actions, cloud security company Ermetic reveals.
05 May 2023
Various sectors in East Asian markets have been subjected to a new email phishing campaign that distributes a previously undocumented strain of Android malware called FluHorse that abuses the Flutter software development framework.
05 May 2023
Peter Sandkuijl, a resident of The Netherlands, is a senior security specialist who has operated in the security market for over 25 years. He started his career at a local Check Point distributor, where he served as a technical product manager. In 2000, Check Point started a Benelux office, where Sandkuijl started as the Technical […]
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05 May 2023
City of Dallas residents are still dealing with some delays and disruptions following a Wednesday ransomware attack which affected some city websites and services.
05 May 2023
Fortinet this week announced its monthly set of security updates that address nine vulnerabilities in multiple products, including two high-severity bugs in FortiADC, FortiOS, and FortiProxy.
05 May 2023
Italian corporate banking clients are the target of an ongoing financial fraud campaign that has been leveraging a new web-inject toolkit called drIBAN since at least 2019.
05 May 2023
A vulnerability in OpenAI’s account validation process allowed anyone to obtain virtually unlimited free credit for the company’s services by registering new accounts using the same phone number, application security firm Checkmarx says.
05 May 2023
Joe Sullivan won't serve any serious time behind bars for his role in covering up Uber's 2016 computer security breach and trying to pass off a ransom payment as a bug bounty.
05 May 2023
Various sectors in East Asian markets have been subjected to a new email phishing campaign that distributes a previously undocumented strain of Android malware called FluHorse that abuses the Flutter software development framework.
"The malware features several malicious Android applications that mimic legitimate applications, most of which have more than 1,000,000 installs," Check Point said in
05 May 2023
The latest Android updates patch more than 40 security vulnerabilities in the Framework, System, Kernel, Arm, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, Unisoc, and Qualcomm components.
05 May 2023
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-28489, impacts the CPCI85 firmware of Sicam A8000 CP-8031 and CP-8050 products, and it can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker for remote code execution.