Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
18 September 2023
St. Luke's Health Systems in Boise, Idaho informed patients of a data breach involving Nuance Communications and MOVEit Transfer software.
18 September 2023
According to a report by Elliptic, the North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has stolen most of $240 million in crypto assets from multiple businesses, including Atomic Wallet ($100m), CoinsPaid ($37.3M), Alphapo ($60M), and Stake.com ($41M).
18 September 2023
Regarding how the hacking was successful, it is reported that the hacker compromised Buterin’s account and shared a post on his behalf, celebrating the arrival of Proto-Danksharding to the Ethereum platform.
18 September 2023
Earth Lusca, a China-linked threat actor, has developed a Linux variant of the backdoor malware SprySOCKS, which originated from the open-source Windows backdoor Trochilus, indicating their continued active operations and expansion.
18 September 2023
Thailand-based digital financial platform, CardX, experienced a data leak exposing personal information of customers, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails.
18 September 2023
Fortinet has released patches for a high-severity cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability impacting multiple FortiOS and FortiProxy versions.
It is tracked as CVE-2023-29183 and has a CVSS score of 7.3.
18 September 2023
A threat actor known as “USDoD” leaked highly sensitive data allegedly stolen from the credit reporting agency. The leaked database, over 3GB in size, contains sensitive PII of 58,505 people, all across the globe, including the Americas and Europe.
18 September 2023
Eric Johnson has been hired as Chief Information Officer at PagerDuty. Johnson will oversee critical IT infrastructure with two decades of experience.
18 September 2023
The Microsoft-owned healthcare technology firm Nuance revealed that the Clop extortion gang has stolen personal data on major North Carolina hospitals as part of the Progress MOVEit Transfer campaign.
18 September 2023
TikTok is flooded by a surge of fake cryptocurrency giveaways posted to the video-sharing platform, with almost all of the videos pretending to be themes based on Elon Musk, Tesla, or SpaceX.
18 September 2023
A novel cloud-native cryptojacking operation has set its eyes on uncommon Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings such as AWS Amplify, AWS Fargate, and Amazon SageMaker to illicitly mine cryptocurrency.
The malicious cyber activity has been codenamed AMBERSQUID by cloud and container security firm Sysdig.
"The AMBERSQUID operation was able to exploit cloud services without triggering the AWS
18 September 2023
When you roll out a security product, you assume it will fulfill its purpose. Unfortunately, however, this often turns out not to be the case. A new report, produced by Osterman Research and commissioned by Silverfort, reveals that MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) and PAM (Privileged Access Management) solutions are almost never deployed comprehensively enough to provide resilience to identity
18 September 2023
Google says that starting in 2024, all Chromebooks released after 2021 will automatically qualify for ten years of security updates, delivered automatically to the device every four weeks.
18 September 2023
A new analysis of the Android banking trojan known as Hook has revealed that it's based on its predecessor called ERMAC.
"The ERMAC source code was used as a base for Hook," NCC Group security researchers Joshua Kamp and Alberto Segura said in a technical analysis published last week.
"All commands (30 in total) that the malware operator can send to a device infected with ERMAC malware, also
18 September 2023
Trucking and fleet management solutions provider ORBCOMM has confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind recent service outages preventing trucking companies from managing their fleets.
18 September 2023
Russian hacker Dariy Pankov has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and now faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison, according to an announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
18 September 2023
This week, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, the country’s Judiciary Branch, and the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce announced that a cyberattack on technology provider IFX Networks Colombia had caused a range of problems.
18 September 2023
The states’ investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people’s location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called “location history.”
18 September 2023
One key focus of the 2023 Cyber Strategy is the commitment to boost the cyber capabilities of allies and partners, and to increase collective resilience against cyberattacks.
18 September 2023
The BlackCat ransomware gang, suspected to be a rebrand of DarkSide/BlackMatter, has been using stolen Microsoft accounts and a new variant of the Sphynx encryptor to target Azure cloud storage.