Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
13 February 2023
The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report on the potential risks with financial service firms adopting cloud services technology.
13 February 2023
Medical records of Garrison Women’s Health patients were recently "subject to unauthorized third-party activity," according to information released Friday evening by Wentworth-Douglass Hospital.
13 February 2023
The most severe issue belongs to ONLYOFFICE’s Workspace enterprise app platform. Tracked as CVE-2022-47412, the stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability is believed to impact versions from 0 through 12.1.0.1760.
13 February 2023
BetterCyber says that the leak site claims the ransomware group has "private and personal confidential data, a lot of technical documentation, agreements, employee and client documents."
13 February 2023
An unknown threat actor created malicious game modes for the Dota 2 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game that could have been exploited to establish backdoor access to players' systems.
The modes exploited a high-severity flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine tracked as CVE-2021-38003 (CVSS score: 8.8), which was exploited as a zero-day and addressed by Google in October 2021.
"Since V8
13 February 2023
Higher-education institutions that handle federal financial aid data have until early June to comply with federal rules for protecting privacy and personal information, the Education Department noted this week.
13 February 2023
The Singapore-headquartered firm said that it detected and blocked malicious phishing emails originating from the group targeting its employees. It's also the second attack aimed at Group-IB, the first of which took place in March 2021.
13 February 2023
Pepsi Bottling Ventures LLC suffered a data breach caused by a network intrusion that resulted in the installation of information-stealing malware and the extraction of data from its IT systems.
13 February 2023
With Chinese tech giants triggering national security concerns -- amid Beijing-backed bad actors capable of orchestrating massive cyberattacks worldwide -- the outcome of the constant tussle could shape the world's tech landscape for years to come.
13 February 2023
Due to a misconfiguration, anyone familiar with the database’s IP address could access the database, which contained entries of over 153,000 users at the time it was secured.
13 February 2023
Football reminds us of the important elements that drive effective people-centric cybersecurity. With a growing threat landscape, organizations must stay proactive: they must continuously upskill teams and individuals across the entire organization.
13 February 2023
A surge of phishing emails impersonating DHL and MetaMask started hitting inboxes of Namecheap customers last week, attempting to trick recipients into sharing personal information or sharing their crypto wallet’s secret recovery phrase.
13 February 2023
Russian media reported that Alexander Khinshtein, the head of the Duma committee on information policy, announced that the Russian government is evaluating to avoid punishing hackers acting in the interests of Moscow.
13 February 2023
A ransom note from the new 'DarkBit' ransomware group was left on the university's systems, where the attackers demanded 80 Bitcoin or roughly US$ 1,745,200 to release the decryptor to the university.
13 February 2023
OilRig APT evolved its methods to bypass security protections by adding a new backdoor to its arsenal to support its long-running espionage campaign against government organizations in the Middle East.
13 February 2023
Not only do many of the security holes discovered in 2022 impact Siemens products, the German industrial giant is also responsible for self-reporting the highest number of vulnerabilities, far more than other vendors, according to a SynSaber report.
13 February 2023
Four different rogue packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) have been found to carry out a number of malicious actions, including dropping malware, deleting the netstat utility, and manipulating the SSH authorized_keys file.
13 February 2023
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected a group of cryptographic algorithms called Ascon as the lightweight cryptography standard to protect data flowing through IoT devices.
13 February 2023
Romance scams cost victims at least $1.3 billion in 2022, according to the US Federal Trade Commission's latest numbers. Almost 70,000 people reported these crimes last year, and the median reported loss was $4,400.
13 February 2023
Tracked as NewsPenguin, the adversary has been observed sending phishing emails that use the upcoming Pakistan International Maritime Expo & Conference (PIMEC-2023) as bait and which carry weaponized documents to deliver an advanced espionage tool.