Chinese state hackers, known as Salt Typhoon, have breached telecommunications companies in dozens of countries, President Biden's deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger said today. [...]
The FBI warns that scammers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to improve the quality and effectiveness of their online fraud schemes, ranging from romance and investment scams to job hiring schemes. [...]
A law enforcement operation led by the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA) has disrupted two Russian money laundering networks working with criminals worldwide, including ransomware gangs. [...]
Multinational telecommunications giant BT Group (formerly British Telecom) has confirmed that its BT Conferencing business division shut down some of its servers following a Black Basta ransomware breach. [...]
A new Android banking malware named 'DroidBot' attempts to steal credentials for over 77 cryptocurrency exchanges and banking apps in the UK, Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal. [...]
The legitimate Solana JavaScript SDK was temporarily compromised yesterday in a supply chain attack, with the library backdoored with malicious code to steal cryptocurrency private keys and drain wallets. [...]
The notorious Russian cyber-espionage group Turla is hacking other hackers, hijacking the Pakistani threat actor Storm-0156's infrastructure to launch their own covert attacks on already compromised networks. [...]
Japan's CERT is warning that hackers are exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in I-O Data router devices to modify device settings, execute commands, or even turn off the firewall. [...]
Updated NIST guidelines reject outdated password security practices in favor of more effective protections. Learn from Specops Software about 6 takeaways from NIST's new guidance that help create strong password policies. [...]
A Russian court has issued a life sentence to a man found guilty of being the kingpin of a dark web drug marketplace that supplied more than a metric ton of narcotics and psychotropic substances to customers around the world. On Monday, the court found that Stanislav Moiseyev oversaw …
Stoli Group's U.S. companies have filed for bankruptcy following an August ransomware attack and Russian authorities seizing the company's remaining distilleries in the country. [...]
Cloudflare's 'pages.dev' and 'workers.dev' domains, used for deploying web pages and facilitating serverless computing, are being increasingly abused by cybercriminals for phishing and other malicious activities. [...]
CISA released guidance today to help network defenders harden their systems against attacks coordinated by the Salt Typhoon Chinese threat group that breached multiple major global telecommunications providers earlier this year. [...]
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a critical-severity remote code execution flaw in Progress WhatsUp Gold has been published, making it critical to install the latest security updates as soon as possible. [...]
Veeam released security updates today to address two Service Provider Console (VSPC) vulnerabilities, including a critical remote code execution (RCE) discovered during internal testing. [...]
Germany has taken down the largest online cybercrime marketplace in the country, named "Crimenetwork," and arrested its administrator for facilitating the sale of drugs, stolen data, and illegal services. [...]
Today, the FTC banned data brokers Mobilewalla and Gravy Analytics from harvesting and selling Americans' location tracking data linked to sensitive locations, like churches, healthcare facilities, military installations, and schools. [...]
An international law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation Passionflower' has shut down MATRIX, an encrypted messaging platform used by cybercriminals to coordinate illegal activities while evading police. [...]
South Korean police have arrested a CEO and five employees for manufacturing over 240,000 satellite receivers pre-loaded or later updated to include DDoS attack functionality at a purchaser's request. [...]
Russian authorities have sentenced the leader of the criminal group behind the now-closed dark web platform Hydra Market to life in prison. [...]
The recently uncovered 'Bootkitty' UEFI bootkit, the first malware of its kind targeting Linux systems, exploits CVE-2023-40238, aka 'LogoFAIL,' to infect computers running on a vulnerable UEFI firmware. [...]
A novel phishing attack abuses Microsoft's Word file recovery feature by sending corrupted Word documents as email attachments, allowing them to bypass security software due to their damaged state but still be recoverable by the application. [...]
A new set of 15 SpyLoan apps with over 8 million installs was discovered on Google Play, targeting primarily users from South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. [...]
Researchers have discovered malicious code circulating in the wild that hijacks the earliest stage boot process of Linux devices by exploiting a year-old firmware vulnerability when it remains unpatched on affected models. The critical vulnerability is one of a constellation of exploitable flaws discovered last year and given the …
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named 'Rockstar 2FA' has emerged, facilitating large-scale adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attacks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials. [...]