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29 November 2023
Experts in security believe the Play ransomware group has ties to Russia. PlayCrypt is another name for the group. It was created by a team known as Balloonfly, which Symantec monitors.
29 November 2023
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that it's responding to a cyber attack that involved the active exploitation of Unitronics programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to target the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa in western Pennsylvania.
The attack has been attributed to an Iranian-backed hacktivist collective known as Cyber Av3ngers.
"Cyber threat
29 November 2023
After hackers compromised ICS at a US water utility, CISA issued a warning over the exploitation of the targeted Unitronics PLC.
The post CISA Warns of Unitronics PLC Exploitation Following Water Utility Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
29 November 2023
The company also told the publication that while it does not have any evidence of the stolen information being actively misused, it has taken the step of notifying all customers of potential phishing and social engineering risks.
29 November 2023
The latest Chrome security update addresses the seventh exploited zero-day vulnerability documented in the browser in 2023.
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29 November 2023
Cybersecurity predictions for 2024 to help security professionals in prioritizing efforts to navigate the ever-changing threat landscape.
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29 November 2023
DJVU, in itself a variant of the STOP ransomware, typically arrives on the scene masquerading as legitimate services or applications. It's also delivered as a payload of SmokeLoader.
29 November 2023
Considering the widespread use of the well-established wireless communication standard and the versions impacted by the exploits, BLUFFS could work against billions of devices, including laptops, smartphones, and other mobile devices.
29 November 2023
DP World Australia's investigation has confirmed that the incident was confined to the Australian operations and did not impact any other markets where DP World operates.
29 November 2023
The easiest way to keep your Google account active (and thus prevent it from being deleted) is to sign in at least once every two years.
The post Google Will Start Deleting ‘Inactive’ Accounts in December. Here’s What You Need to Know appeared first on SecurityWeek.
29 November 2023
Users are recommended to upgrade to Chrome version 119.0.6045.199/.200 for Windows and 119.0.6045.199 for macOS and Linux to mitigate potential threats. Users of Chromium-based browsers are also advised to apply the fixes.
29 November 2023
An Android malware campaign targeting Iranian banks has expanded its capabilities and incorporated additional evasion tactics to fly under the radar.
That's according to a new report from Zimperium, which discovered more than 200 malicious apps associated with the malicious operation, with the threat actor also observed carrying out phishing attacks against the targeted financial institutions.
29 November 2023
It steals browsers' databases and attempts all Chromium-based browsers that share the same structure of databases and also will explore Mozilla-based web engines and “Thunderbird” mail client which is based on Mozilla.
29 November 2023
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29 November 2023
Identity services provider Okta has disclosed that it detected "additional threat actor activity" in connection with the October 2023 breach of its support case management system.
"The threat actor downloaded the names and email addresses of all Okta customer support system users," the company said in a statement shared with The Hacker News.
"All Okta Workforce Identity Cloud (WIC) and Customer
29 November 2023
A variant of a ransomware strain known as DJVU has been observed to be distributed in the form of cracked software.
"While this attack pattern is not new, incidents involving a DJVU variant that appends the .xaro extension to affected files and demanding ransom for a decryptor have been observed infecting systems alongside a host of various commodity loaders and infostealers," Cybereason
29 November 2023
The recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Apache ActiveMQ is being actively exploited by threat actors to distribute a new Go-based botnet called GoTitan as well as a .NET program known as PrCtrl Rat that's capable of remotely commandeering the infected hosts.
The attacks involve the exploitation of a remote code execution bug (CVE-2023-46604, CVSS score: 10.0) that has been
28 November 2023
Google has rolled out security updates to fix seven security issues in its Chrome browser, including a zero-day that has come under active exploitation in the wild.
Tracked as CVE-2023-6345, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as an integer overflow bug in Skia, an open source 2D graphics library.
Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) have been
28 November 2023
According to a recent DataDome report, 68% of U.S. websites are unprotected against bot attacks and traditional CAPTCHAs are no longer effective.
28 November 2023
CVE-2023-48023 is rooted in the fact that, in its default configuration, Ray does not enforce authentication, and does not appear to support any type of authorization model.