Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have discovered more than 280 malicious apps for Android that use optical character recognition to steal cryptocurrency wallet credentials from infected devices. The apps masquerade as official ones from banks, government services, TV streaming services, and utilities. In fact, they scour infected phones for …
Transport for London, the city's public transportation agency, revealed today that its staff has limited access to systems and email due to measures implemented in response to a Sunday cyberattack. [...]
American car rental giant Avis disclosed a data breach after attackers breached one of its business applications last month and stole customer personal information. [...]
After Office 2024 launches in October, Microsoft will disable ActiveX controls by default in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio client apps. [...]
A new Android malware named SpyAgent uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from screenshots stored on the mobile device. [...]
SonicWall is warning that a recently fixed access control flaw tracked as CVE-2024-40766 in SonicOS is now "potentially" exploited in attacks, urging admins to apply patches as soon as possible. [...]
Apache has fixed a critical security vulnerability in its open-source OFBiz (Open For Business) software, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable Linux and Windows servers. [...]
Microsoft announced today that it has partnered with StopNCII to proactively remove harmful intimate images and videos from Bing using digital hashes people create from their sensitive media. [...]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors on Thursday unsealed an indictment charging six Russian nationals with conspiracy to hack into the computer networks of the Ukrainian government and its allies and steal or destroy sensitive data on behalf of the Kremlin. The indictment, filed in US District Court for …
The United States and its allies have linked a group of Russian hackers (tracked as Cadet Blizzard and Ember Bear) behind global critical infrastructure attacks to Unit 29155 of Russia's Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (also known as GRU). [...]
Yet, another critical severity vulnerability has been discovered in LiteSpeed Cache, a caching plugin for speeding up user browsing in over 6 million WordPress sites. [...]
North Carolina musician Michael Smith was indicted for collecting over $10 million in royalty payments from Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music using AI-generated songs streamed by thousands of bots in a massive streaming fraud scheme. [...]
Veeam has released security updates for several of its products as part of a single September 2024 security bulletin that addresses 18 high and critical severity flaws in Veeam Backup & Replication, Service Provider Console, and One. [...]
Hackers are targeting other hackers with a fake OnlyFans tool that claims to help steal accounts but instead infects threat actors with the Lumma stealer information-stealing malware. [...]
Planned Parenthood has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack affecting its IT systems, forcing it to take parts of its infrastructure offline to contain the damage. [...]
American semiconductor supplier Microchip Technology Incorporated has confirmed that employee information was stolen from systems compromised in an August cyberattack, which was later claimed by the Play ransomware gang. [...]
The MacroPack framework, initially designed for Red Team exercises, is being abused by threat actors to deploy malicious payloads, including Havoc, Brute Ratel, and PhatomCore. [...]
The FBI seized 32 web domains used by the Doppelgänger Russian-linked influence operation network in a disinformation campaign targeting the American public ahead of this year's presidential election. [...]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that four additional AWS Regions—Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Israel (Tel Aviv)—have been granted the Health Data Hosting (Hébergeur de Données de Santé, HDS) certification, increasing the scope to 24 global AWS Regions …
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Networking hardware-maker Zyxel is warning of nearly a dozen vulnerabilities in a wide array of its products. If left unpatched, some of them could enable the complete takeover of the devices, which can be targeted as an initial point of entry into large networks. The …
Cisco has fixed a command injection vulnerability in the Identity Services Engine (ISE) with public exploit code that lets attackers escalate privileges to root on vulnerable systems. [...]
A new "EUCLEAK" flaw found in FIDO devices using the Infineon SLE78 security microcontroller, like Yubico's YubiKey 5 Series, allows attackers to extract Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) secret keys and clone the FIDO device. [...]
Cisco has removed a backdoor account in the Cisco Smart Licensing Utility (CSLU) that can be used to log into unpatched systems with administrative privileges. [...]
Cisco's site for selling company-themed merchandise is currently offline and under maintenance due to hackers compromising it with JavaScript code that steals sensitive customer details provided at checkout. [...]
Google has released the September 2024 Android security updates to fix 34 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-32896, an actively exploited elevation of privilege flaw that was previously fixed on Pixel devices. [...]