Cyberattack on UK’s CVS Group disrupts veterinary operations
UK veterinary services provider CVS Group has announced that it suffered a cyberattack that disrupted IT services at its practices across the country. [...]
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Over 92,000 exposed D-Link NAS devices have a backdoor account
A threat researcher has disclosed a new arbitrary command injection and hardcoded backdoor flaw in multiple end-of-life D-Link Network Attached Storage (NAS) device models. [...]
New Ivanti RCE flaw may impact 16,000 exposed VPN gateways
Approximately 16,500 Ivanti Connect Secure and Poly Secure gateways exposed on the internet are likely vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) flaw the vendor addressed earlier this week. [...]
Fake Facebook MidJourney AI page promoted malware to 1.2 million people
Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote fake Artificial Intelligence services, such as MidJourney, OpenAI's SORA and ChatGPT-5, and DALL-E, to infect unsuspecting users with password-stealing malware. [...]
New Latrodectus malware replaces IcedID in network breaches
A relatively new malware called Latrodectus is believed to be an evolution of the IcedID loader, seen in malicious email campaigns since November 2023. [...]
Visa warns of new JSOutProx malware variant targeting financial orgs
Visa is warning about a spike in detections for a new version of the JsOutProx malware targeting financial institutions and their customers. [...]
US cancer center data breach exposes info of 827,000 patients
Cancer treatment and research center City of Hope is warning that a data breach exposed the sensitive information of over 820,000 patients. [...]
New HTTP/2 DoS attack can crash web servers with a single connection
Newly discovered HTTP/2 protocol vulnerabilities called "CONTINUATION Flood" can lead to denial of service (DoS) attacks, crashing web servers with a single TCP connection in some implementations. [...]
SurveyLama data breach exposes info of 4.4 million users
Data breach alerting service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) warns that SurveyLama suffered a data breach in February 2024, which exposed the sensitive data of 4.4 million users. [...]
Critical flaw in LayerSlider WordPress plugin impacts 1 million sites
A premium WordPress plugin named LayerSlider, used in over one million sites, is vulnerable to unauthenticated SQL injection, requiring admins to prioritize applying security updates for the plugin. [...]
AT&T faces lawsuits over data breach affecting 73 million customers
AT&T is facing multiple class-action lawsuits following the company's admission to a massive data breach that exposed the sensitive data of 73 million current and former customers. [...]
Google fixes two Pixel zero-day flaws exploited by forensics firms
Google has fixed two Google Pixel zero-days exploited by forensic firms to unlock phones without a PIN and gain access to the data stored within them. [...]
Winnti's new UNAPIMON tool hides malware from security software
The Chinese 'Winnti' hacking group was found using a previously undocumented malware called UNAPIMON to let malicous processes run without being detected. [...]
Russia charges suspects behind theft of 160,000 credit cards
Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has announced the indictment of six suspected "hacking group" members for using malware to steal credit card and payment information from foreign online stores. [...]
New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary
Firmware security firm Binarly has released a free online scanner to detect Linux executables impacted by the XZ Utils supply chain attack, tracked as CVE-2024-3094. [...]
India rescues 250 citizens enslaved by Cambodian cybercrime gang
The Indian government says it rescued and repatriated 250 citizens who sought jobs in Cambodia, only to be forced into conducting cybercrime once they arrived. [...]
FTC: Americans lost $1.1 billion to impersonation scams in 2023
Impersonation scams in the U.S. exceeded $1.1 billion in losses last year, according to statistics collected by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a figure that is three times higher than in 2020. [...]
Shopping platform PandaBuy data leak impacts 1.3 million users
Data belonging to more than 1.3 million customers of the PandaBuy online shopping platform has been leaked, allegedly after two threat actors exploited multiple vulnerabilities to breach systems. [...]
DinodasRAT malware targets Linux servers in espionage campaign
Security researchers have observed Red Hat and Ubuntu systems being attacked by a Linux version of the DinodasRAT (also known as XDealer) that may have been operating since 2022. [...]
Vultur banking malware for Android poses as McAfee Security app
Security researchers found a new version of the Vultur banking trojan for Android that includes more advanced remote control capabilities and an improved evasion mechanism. [...]
Activision: Enable 2FA to secure accounts recently stolen by malware
An infostealer malware campaign has reportedly collected millions of logins from users of various gaming websites, including players that use cheats, pay-to-cheat services. [...]
Decade-old Linux ‘wall’ bug helps make fake SUDO prompts, steal passwords
A vulnerability has been discovered in the 'util-linux' library that could allow unprivileged users to put arbitrary text on other users' terminals using the 'wall' command. [...]
PyPI suspends new user registration to block malware campaign
The Python Package Index (PyPI) has temporarily suspended user registration and the creation of new projects to deal with an ongoing malware campaign. [...]
Cisco warns of password-spraying attacks targeting VPN services
Cisco has shared a set of recommendations for customers to mitigate password-spraying attacks that have been targeting Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) services configured on Cisco Secure Firewall devices. [...]
Russian hackers target German political parties with WineLoader malware
Researchers are warning that a notorious hacking group linked to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is targeting political parties in Germany for the first time, shifting their focus away from the typical targeting of diplomatic missions. [...]
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