CISA has added three flaws to its 'Known Exploited Vulnerabilities' (KEV) catalog, among which is a critical hardcoded credentials flaw in SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) that the vendor fixed in late August 2024. [...]
A critical vulnerability in Kubernetes could allow unauthorized SSH access to a virtual machine running an image created with the Kubernetes Image Builder project. [...]
The North Korean hacking group ScarCruft launched a large-scale attack in May that leveraged an Internet Explorer zero-day flaw to infect targets with the RokRAT malware and exfiltrate data. [...]
A tool for red-team operations called EDRSilencer has been observed in malicious incidents attempting to identify security tools and mute their alerts to management consoles. [...]
The Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance has published a working draft of a new specification that aims to enable the secure transfer of passkeys between different providers. [...]
Google Play, the official store for Android, distributed over a period of one year more than 200 malicious applications, which cumulatively counted nearly eight million downloads. [...]
North Korean hackers are using a new Linux variant of the FASTCash malware to infect the payment switch systems of financial institutions and perform unauthorized cash withdrawals. [...]
WordPress plugin Jetpack released a critical security update earlier today, addressing a vulnerability that allowed a logged-in user to access forms submitted by other visitors to the site. [...]
Forty new variants of the TrickMo Android banking trojan have been identified in the wild, linked to 16 droppers and 22 distinct command and control (C2) infrastructures, with new features designed to steal Android PINs. [...]
Japanese video game developer Game Freak has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack in August after source code and game designs for unpublished games were leaked online. [...]
The Iranian state-sponsored hacking group APT34, aka OilRig, has recently escalated its activities with new campaigns targeting government and critical infrastructure entities in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf region. [...]
OpenAI has disrupted over 20 malicious cyber operations abusing its AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, for debugging and developing malware, spreading misinformation, evading detection, and conducting spear-phishing attacks. [...]
CISA is warning that threat actors have been observed abusing unencrypted persistent F5 BIG-IP cookies to identify and target other internal devices on the targeted network. [...]
Casio now confirms it suffered a ransomware attack earlier this month, warning that the personal and confidential data of employees, job candidates, and some customers was also stolen. [...]
Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels will pay $52 million and create a comprehensive information security program as part of settlements for data breaches that impacted over 344 million customers. [...]
The Underground ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for an October 5 attack on Japanese tech giant Casio, which caused system disruptions and impacted some of the firm's services. [...]
GitLab has released security updates to address multiple flaws in Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), including a critical arbitrary branch pipeline execution flaw. [...]
Over 28,000 people from Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and other countries in the Eurasian region were impacted by a large-scale cryptocurrency-stealing malware campaign. [...]
Mozilla has issued an emergency security update for the Firefox browser to address a critical use-after-free vulnerability that is currently exploited in attacks. [...]
An automated scanner has been released to help security professionals scan environments for devices vulnerable to the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) RCE flaw tracked as CVE-2024-47176. [...]
An emerging phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called Mamba 2FA has been observed targeting Microsoft 365 accounts in AiTM attacks using well-crafted login pages. [...]
An APT hacking group known as GoldenJackal has successfully breached air-gapped government systems in Europe using two custom toolsets to steal sensitive data, like emails, encryption keys, images, archives, and documents. [...]
Japanese tech giant Casio has suffered a cyberattack after an unauthorized actor accessed its networks on October 5, causing system disruption that impacted some of its services. [...]
Comcast Cable Communications and Truist Bank have disclosed they were impacted by a data breach at FBCS, and are now informing their respective customers that their data has been compromised. [...]
A 21-year-old man from Indiana named Evan Frederick Light pleaded guilty to stealing $37,704,560 worth of cryptocurrency from 571 victims in a 2022 cyberattack. [...]