Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
20 February 2023
The FBI is reportedly investigating malicious cyber activity on the agency’s network. The federal law enforcement agency says it already contained the "isolated incident" and is working to uncover its scope and overall impact.
20 February 2023
As per newly published research, when faced with sophisticated cyberattacks in a rigorous simulation setting, deep reinforcement learning was effective at stopping adversaries from reaching their goals up to 95 percent of the time.
20 February 2023
Multibillion-dollar corporation Applied Materials, which provides technology for the semiconductor industry, said during an earnings call this week that a ransomware attack on one of its suppliers would cost it $250 million in the next quarter.
20 February 2023
A majority of the zero-click exploits are engineered to take advantage of vulnerabilities in applications such as messaging, SMS, or email apps that receive and process untrusted data.
20 February 2023
Check Point observed a new malicious campaign targeting corporate entities in Armenia with a new OxtaRAT backdoor variant, with an aim to conduct surveillance. The attack involved a geo-political bait wherein hackers would share an image file (.SCR) masquerading as a PDF file. It is a polyglot file that combines the image and compiled AutoIT script (the OxtaRAT).
20 February 2023
Platypus confirmed a loss of “8.5 million” from its main pool and said that deposits were covered at 85%. Other pools were unaffected. The company has contacted the hacker to negotiate a bounty for the return of the funds.
20 February 2023
Norwegian police agency Økokrim has announced the seizure of 60 million NOK (about $5.84 million) worth of cryptocurrency stolen by the Lazarus Group in March 2022 following the Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge hack.
"This case shows that we also have a great capacity to follow the money on the blockchain, even if the criminals use advanced methods," the agency said in a statement.
The development
20 February 2023
The number of data breaches affecting healthcare providers declined in the second half of 2022, consistent with a downward trend over the past two years, according to Critical Insight.
20 February 2023
Unknown malware presents a significant cybersecurity threat and can cause serious damage to organizations and individuals alike. When left undetected, malicious code can gain access to confidential information, corrupt data, and allow attackers to gain control of systems. Find out how to avoid these circumstances and detect unknown malicious behavior efficiently.
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20 February 2023
Russia's cyber attacks against Ukraine surged by 250% in 2022 when compared to two years ago, Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant disclosed in a new joint report.
The targeting, which coincided and has since persisted following the country's military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, focused heavily on the Ukrainian government and military entities, alongside critical
20 February 2023
In a blog post released this week, Twitter said that non-Twitter Blue users using SMS 2FA authentication have until March 20th, 2023, to switch to another 2FA method, or it will be disabled.
20 February 2023
In an annual disclosure to investors, internet domain registrar GoDaddy said it is the victim of a three-year-long hacking campaign that installed malware on internal systems and obtained source code.
20 February 2023
The cyber espionage threat actor tracked as Earth Kitsune has been observed deploying a new backdoor called WhiskerSpy as part of a social engineering campaign.
Earth Kitsune, active since at least 2019, is known to primarily target individuals interested in North Korea with self-developed malware such as dneSpy and agfSpy. Previously documented intrusions have entailed the use of watering holes
20 February 2023
When a targeted visitor tries to watch videos on the website, a malicious script injected by the attacker displays a message prompt notifying the victims with a video codec error to entice them to download and install a trojanized codec installer.
20 February 2023
An estimated 14,000 employees at a Liverpool NHS hospital trust have been informed that their data was leaked via email due to human error, according to recent media reports.
20 February 2023
A new report, titled "Fog of War: How the Ukraine conflict transformed the cyber threat landscape," offers insights involving the Russian invasion from two of Google's groups -- TAG as well as Trust and Safety -- and subsidiary Mandiant.
20 February 2023
In one case against a single company, the fraudsters managed to pilfer €38,000,000 ($40.3M) within a couple of days, quickly moving the money across Europe, China, and eventually cashing out in Israel.
20 February 2023
Among the airports affected were Düsseldorf, Nüremberg, Erfurt-Weimar, and Dortmund. The websites were unreachable or flagged up failure messages. The websites of the biggest airports, in Frankfurt, Munich, and Berlin, were operating normally.
20 February 2023
The latest campaign is said to have commenced in November 2022 and marks the first time the threat actors behind the activity have expanded their focus beyond Azerbaijan.
20 February 2023
Samsung has announced a new feature called Message Guard that comes with safeguards to protect users from malware and spyware via what's referred to as zero-click attacks.
The South Korean chaebol said the solution "preemptively" secures users' devices by "limiting exposure to invisible threats disguised as image attachments."
The security feature, available on Samsung Messages and Google