Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles


Mom’s Meals Service Discloses Data Breach Impacting 1.2 Million People

28 August 2023
PurFoods, which conducts business in the U.S. as 'Mom's Meals,' is warning of a data breach after the personal information of 1.2 million customers and employees was stolen in a ransomware attack.

Developers Beware: Malicious Rust Libraries Caught Transmitting OS Info to Telegram Channel

28 August 2023
In yet another sign that developers continue to be targets of software supply chain attacks, a number of malicious packages have been discovered on the Rust programming language's crate registry. The libraries, uploaded between August 14 and 16, 2023, were published by a user named "amaperf," Phylum said in a report published last week. The names of the packages, now taken down, are as follows:

Vendors Training AI With Customer Data Is an Enterprise Risk

28 August 2023
Zoom received some flak recently for planning to use customer data to train its machine learning models. The reality, however, is that the video conferencing company is not the first, nor will it be the last, to have similar plans.

PoC for Unauthenticated RCE on Juniper Networks Firewalls Released

28 August 2023
Researchers have released additional details about the recently patched four vulnerabilities affecting Juniper Networks’ SRX firewalls and EX switches that could allow remote code execution (RCE), as well as a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit.

UK Privacy Regulator Warns of Surging Number of “Text Pest” Cases

28 August 2023
The UK’s data protection watchdog is urging victims of so-called “text pests” to come forward after revealing that nearly a third (29%) of 18–34-year-olds have had their personal information misused.

University of Tulsa opens cyber research institute

28 August 2023
The growing significance of cybercrime and the deficit of cybersecurity workforce fuel the launch of the Oklahoma Cyber Innovation Institute.

Leaseweb Reports Cloud Disruptions Due to Cyberattack

28 August 2023
“The issue had an impact on a specific portion of our cloud-based infrastructure leading to downtime for a small number of cloud customers,” Leaseweb told customers in an email notification.

Tor Tweaks Onion Routing Software to Fend Off DDoS Attacks

28 August 2023
The updated software now supports a proof-of-work challenge called EquiX. Designed by Tevador, who developed Monero's proof-of-work algorithm, it is "a CPU-friendly client puzzle with fast verification and small solution size (16 bytes).

Hacking Group Kittensec Claims to ‘Pwn Anything We See’ to Expose Corruption

28 August 2023
On July 28, KittenSec claimed in a Telegram post to have hacked multiple Romanian government systems and posted a file containing roughly 36 gigabytes of data, including emails, documents, contracts, and healthcare-related data.

CISA Touts ‘Tremendous Growth’ in Vulnerability Disclosure Platform

28 August 2023
The Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP) Platform has seen “tremendous growth” in onboarding 40 agency programs since its launch in July 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Friday in a news release.

Brazilian Phone Spyware was Hacked and Victims’ Devices ‘Deleted’ From Server

28 August 2023
A Portuguese-language spyware called WebDetetive has been used to compromise more than 76,000 Android phones in recent years across South America, largely in Brazil. It is also the latest phone spyware company in recent months to have been hacked.

Software Industry Urged to Assume Risk on Open Source Security

28 August 2023
The manifesto is aimed at organizations that use open-source components as dependencies in their own software, according to Brian Fox, co-founder and CTO of Sonatype and one of the authors of the manifesto.

London's Metropolitan Police Service Probes Cyber Intrusion at One of its Suppliers

28 August 2023
The National Crime Agency has been called in to investigate over fears that the data could be exploited by organized crime or terrorists to fabricate warrant cards, or to target officers in the force.

Cyberattacks Targeting E-commerce Applications

28 August 2023
Cyber attacks on e-commerce applications are a common trend in 2023 as e-commerce businesses become more omnichannel, they build and deploy increasingly more API interfaces, with threat actors constantly exploring more ways to exploit vulnerabilities. This is why regular testing and ongoing monitoring are necessary to fully protect web applications, identifying weaknesses so they can be

Researchers Discover Reply URL Takeover Flaw in Azure

28 August 2023
Security researchers are urging Azure Active Directory (AD) users to monitor for abandoned reply URLs after revealing a critical vulnerability in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Polish Authorities Investigate Hacking Attack on Local Railways

28 August 2023
The attack took place on Saturday. Threat actors transmitted a signal triggering an emergency status that stopped the trains near the city of Szczecin. According to the media, the attack stopped at least 20 trains and paralyzed the traffic for hours.

Leaked LockBit 3.0 Ransomware Builder Used by Multiple Actors

28 August 2023
Lockbit v3, aka Lockbit Black, was detected in June 2022, but in September 2022 a builder for this variant was leaked online. The availability of the builder allowed anyone to create their own customized version of the ransomware.

KmsdBot Malware Gets an Upgrade: Now Targets IoT Devices with Enhanced Capabilities

28 August 2023
"The binary now includes support for Telnet scanning and support for more CPU architectures," Akamai security researcher Larry W. Cashdollar said in an analysis published this month.

KmsdBot Malware Gets an Upgrade: Now Targets IoT Devices with Enhanced Capabilities

28 August 2023
An updated version of a botnet malware called KmsdBot is now targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices, simultaneously branching out its capabilities and the attack surface. "The binary now includes support for Telnet scanning and support for more CPU architectures," Akamai security researcher Larry W. Cashdollar said in an analysis published this month. The latest iteration,

Lazarus Exploits ManageEngine to Deploy QuiteRAT

27 August 2023
The Lazarus group was associated with a new campaign against healthcare entities in Europe and the U.S. In this campaign, the attackers exploited a ManageEngine ServiceDesk vulnerability (CVE-2022-47966) to distribute the QuiteRAT malware. The malware has many capabilities similar to MagicRAT, another malware from the Lazarus group.