Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
16 February 2023
Russian national Vladislav Klyushin was found guilty of participating in a global scheme that involved hacking into U.S. computer networks to steal confidential earnings reports, which helped the criminals net $90,000,000 in illegal profits.
16 February 2023
More than 500 hosts have been newly compromised en masse by the ESXiArgs ransomware strain, most of which are located in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K., and Ukraine.
16 February 2023
High-risk users represent approximately 10% of the worker population and are found in every department and function of the organization, according to Elevate Security research.
16 February 2023
By exploiting these flaws, hackers can access anything from sensors responsible for gauging temperature, pressure, liquid, air, and gas levels, as well as analyzers used to determine chemical compositions.
16 February 2023
Cloud monitoring, log management, and SIEM solutions provider Sumo Logic is set to become a private company after it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by affiliates of private equity firm Francisco Partners for $1.7 billion.
16 February 2023
The only Catholic historically Black college or university (HBCU) reported a data breach this week involving Social Security numbers and other personal information from more than 44,000 students and vendors.
16 February 2023
Chinese-speaking individuals in Southeast and East Asia are the targets of a new rogue Google Ads campaign that delivers remote access trojans such as FatalRAT to compromised machines.
The attacks involve purchasing ad slots to appear in Google search results that direct users searching for popular applications to rogue websites hosting trojanized installers, ESET said in a report published
16 February 2023
Security researchers have disclosed two new vulnerabilities affecting Schneider Electric Modicon programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that could allow for authentication bypass and remote code execution.
The flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-45788 (CVSS score: 7.5) and CVE-2022-45789 (CVSS score: 8.1), are part of a broader collection of security defects tracked by Forescout as OT:ICEFALL.
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16 February 2023
Deepwatch has unveiled a total of $180 million in equity investments and strategic financing from Springcoast Capital Partners, Splunk Ventures, and Vista Credit Partners, a subsidiary of Vista Equity Partners.
16 February 2023
SAS said it was hit by a cyberattack Tuesday evening and urged customers to refrain from using its app but later said it had fixed the problem. News reports said the hack paralyzed the carrier's website and leaked customer information from its app.
16 February 2023
There are an estimated 3.09 billion active video gamers worldwide. Unsurprisingly, the rising popularity of video gaming has proved an irresistible draw for cyber-criminals looking to target players’ login credentials and personal information.
16 February 2023
Chinese 8220 Gang has been found enhancing its attack techniques, such as involving using malicious Docker images and exploiting Struts2, Redis, and Weblogic servers, to launch cryptomining attacks. Some of these attacks leveraged vulnerable Oracle Weblogic servers, and the other campaign attacked a vulnerable Apache web server. Companies can leverage threat intelligence platforms to track IOCs and understand the attack patterns of such attacks.
16 February 2023
?A hacker is using fake code-signing certificates impersonating cybersecurity firm Emsisoft to target customers using its security products, hoping to bypass their defenses.
16 February 2023
Until its takedown in April 2022, Hydra owned 93% of all illicit underground economic activities. Year-over-year, dark web marketplace revenues at the end of 2021 were about $3.1 billion, but by the end of 2022, they totaled only about $1.5 billion.
16 February 2023
Dubbed V3G4 by researchers, it is a type of malware that specifically targets Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Like the original Mirai botnet, V3G4 infects IoT devices by exploiting default data login credentials such as usernames and passwords.
16 February 2023
North Korean APT37 was spotted using a highly evasive M2RAT malware and steganography to target individuals for intelligence collection. It exploits an old EPS bug, tracked as CVE-2017-8291, in the Hangul word processor (commonly used in South Korea). The malware uses a shared memory region for executing commands and exfiltrating data from infected machines.
16 February 2023
The most recent in a series of US Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports on the state of cybersecurity across the federal government makes specific recommendations about the collection, use, and sharing of PII.
16 February 2023
Security teams typically have great visibility over most areas, for example, the corporate network, endpoints, servers, and cloud infrastructure. They use this visibility to enforce the necessary security and compliance requirements. However, this is not the case when it comes to sensitive data sitting in production or analytic databases, data warehouses or data lakes.
Security teams have to
16 February 2023
As the name suggests, ProxyShellMiner exploits the ProxyShell vulnerabilities CVE-2021-34473 and CVE-2021-34523 in Windows Exchange servers for initial access and compromise of an organization to deliver crypto miners.
16 February 2023
Telecommunication service providers in the Middle East are being targeted by a previously undocumented threat actor as part of a suspected espionage-related campaign.
Cybersecurity firms SentinelOne and QGroup are tracking the activity cluster under the former's work-in-progress moniker WIP26.
"WIP26 relies heavily on public cloud infrastructure in an attempt to evade detection by making