Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
12 June 2023
Scam Sniffer used blockchain analysis to detect the Pink Drainer hacking group, which it said has now stolen over $3 million from more than 2000 victims, some of which are said to be high-profile individuals such as OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.
12 June 2023
In their haste to make money, some new players are picking over the discarded remnants of previous ransomware groups, cobbling together ransomware rather than going through the trouble of coding bespoke crypto-locking software.
12 June 2023
According to The Athletic, three class action lawsuits related to the breach were combined into one case. The plaintiffs filed settlement papers in California federal court, the site reported, which they described as an “unopposed motion.”
12 June 2023
Researchers found that the Strava heatmap feature opens up the possibility for tracking and de-anonymizing users using publicly available heatmap data combined with specific user metadata.
12 June 2023
The term "attack surface management" (ASM) went from unknown to ubiquitous in the cybersecurity space over the past few years. Gartner and Forrester have both highlighted the importance of ASM recently, multiple solution providers have emerged in the space, and investment and acquisition activity have seen an uptick.
Many concepts come and go in cybersecurity, but attack surface management
12 June 2023
A fully undetectable (FUD) malware obfuscation engine named BatCloak is being used to deploy various malware strains since September 2022, while persistently evading antivirus detection.
The samples grant "threat actors the ability to load numerous malware families and exploits with ease through highly obfuscated batch files," Trend Micro researchers said.
About 79.6% of the total 784 artifacts
12 June 2023
In addition to the rise in botnet-driven DDoS attacks, Nokia's Threat Intelligence Report highlighted a doubling in the number of trojans targeting personal banking information on mobile devices, now accounting for 9% of all infections.
12 June 2023
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-27997, is "reachable pre-authentication, on every SSL VPN appliance," Lexfo Security researcher Charles Fol, who discovered and reported the flaw, said in a tweet over the weekend.
12 June 2023
Security vulnerabilities discovered in Honda's e-commerce platform could have been exploited to gain unrestricted access to sensitive dealer information.
"Broken/missing access controls made it possible to access all data on the platform, even when logged in as a test account," security researcher Eaton Zveare said in a report published last week.
The platform is designed for the sale of power
12 June 2023
The DOJ unsealed charges filed in 2019 against 43-year-old Alexey Bilyuchenko and 29-year-old Aleksandr Verner, accusing the two of stealing 647,000 BTC from Mt. Gox and using it to underpin illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017.
12 June 2023
The group, known as Anonymous Sudan, has claimed credit for the alleged DDoS attacks and made additional threats against the company. Microsoft officials acknowledged the public claims and are working to fully restore services.
12 June 2023
By utilizing what the researchers term “AI package hallucinations,” threat actors can create and distribute malicious code packages that developers may inadvertently download and integrate into their legitimate applications and code repositories.
12 June 2023
A previously undetected cryptocurrency scam has leveraged a constellation of over 1,000 fraudulent websites to ensnare users into a bogus rewards scheme since at least January 2021.
"This massive campaign has likely resulted in thousands of people being scammed worldwide," Trend Micro researchers said in a report published last week, linking it to a Russian-speaking threat actor named "Impulse
12 June 2023
Fortinet has released patches to address a critical security flaw in its FortiGate firewalls that could be abused by a threat actor to achieve remote code execution.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-27997, is "reachable pre-authentication, on every SSL VPN appliance," Lexfo Security researcher Charles Fol, who discovered and reported the flaw, said in a tweet over the weekend.
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12 June 2023
After a major lull in CVEs addressed last month, expect Microsoft to be back on track with their annual averages for both their operating systems and Office application updates next week.
12 June 2023
Apple is introducing major updates to Safari Private Browsing, offering users better protections against third-party trackers as they browse the web.
"Advanced tracking and fingerprinting protections go even further to help prevent websites from using the latest techniques to track or identify a user's device," the iPhone maker said.
"Private Browsing now locks when not in use, allowing a user
10 June 2023
Vietnamese public companies have been targeted as part of an ongoing campaign that deploys a novel backdoor called SPECTRALVIPER.
"SPECTRALVIPER is a heavily obfuscated, previously undisclosed, x64 backdoor that brings PE loading and injection, file upload and download, file and directory manipulation, and token impersonation capabilities," Elastic Security Labs said in a Friday report.
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10 June 2023
Progress Software, the company behind the MOVEit Transfer application, has released patches to address brand new SQL injection vulnerabilities affecting the file transfer solution that could enable the theft of sensitive information.
"Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities have been identified in the MOVEit Transfer web application that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain
10 June 2023
Security researchers are warning about a bug in the Microsoft Visual Studio installer that gives cyberattackers a way to create and distribute malicious extensions to application developers, under the guise of being a legitimate software publisher.
10 June 2023
Progress Software warned customers today of newly found critical SQL injection vulnerabilities in its MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer (MFT) solution that can let attackers steal information from customers' databases.