Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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US DOJ Indicts 6 for $6M Business Email Compromise Scam

U.S. federal prosecutors unsealed indictments Wednesday against six Houston-area men for an alleged six-month spree of business email compromise thefts adding up to nearly $6 million.

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Wealthy New Jersey Township Hit with Cyberattack, Mayor Says

Katya Wowk, Montclair’s communications director, told Recorded Future News that the incident is not related to the MOVEit vulnerability that has led to attacks on dozens of organizations in recent weeks.

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Darkweb credit card marts in decline across Asia

The number of stolen Asian credit card numbers on dark web markets has fallen sharply, Group-IB told Singapore's ATxSG conference. Instead, criminals have escalated their attempts to steal corporate documents – with India being the prime target.

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Clop Ransomware Gang Likely Aware of MOVEit Transfer Vulnerability Since 2021

It's worth noting that Cl0p carried out similar mass exploitation attacks on other managed file transfer applications such as SolarWinds Serv-U Managed File Transfer, Accellion FTA, and GoAnywhere MFT since December 2020.

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Cyber Extortionists Seek Out Fresh Victims in LatAm and Asia

Cyber-extortion gangs shifted their focus away from North America and Europe and towards Latin America and Asia during 2022, possibly influenced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Orange Cyberdefense.

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“Picture in Picture” Technique Exploited in New Deceptive Phishing Attack

In a recent phishing campaign, hackers have employed sophisticated obfuscation tactics to deceive unsuspecting users into visiting malicious websites and disclosing sensitive information.

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PoC released for Windows Win32k bug exploited in attacks

The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-29336 and was originally discovered by cybersecurity firm Avast. It was assigned a CVSS v3.1 severity rating of 7.8 as it allows low-privileged users to gain Windows SYSTEM privileges.

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Update: North Korea's Lazarus Group linked to Atomic Wallet heist

Elliptic researchers said that by tracking some of the stolen crypto, they were able to collect information about how it was handled and laundered, with the audit trail pointing in the direction of Lazarus Group.

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Stealth Soldier: A New Custom Backdoor Targets North Africa with Espionage Attacks

A new custom backdoor dubbed Stealth Soldier has been deployed as part of a set of highly-targeted espionage attacks in North Africa. "Stealth Soldier malware is an undocumented backdoor that primarily operates surveillance functions such as file exfiltration, screen and microphone recording, keystroke logging and stealing browser information," cybersecurity company Check Point said in a

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Barracuda Urges Replacing — Not Patching — Its Email Security Gateways

It's not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission an entire line of affected hardware -- as opposed to just applying software updates. But experts say that is exactly what transpired this week with Barracuda Networks, as the company struggled to combat a sprawling malware threat which appears to have undermined its email security appliances in such a fundamental way that they can no longer be safely updated with software fixes.

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48% of security leaders say distributed workforce influences spending

The quick development of artificial intelligence and new technologies has led security leaders to consider how to implement them in cybersecurity.

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Aix-Marseille, France’s largest university, hit by cyberattack

The institution’s management described the attack as coming “from a foreign country” but said its security systems triggered an alert allowing them to take the network offline before “great damage” was caused.

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Josh DeFrain named Chief Information Security Officer at Rokt

Ecommerce technology company Rokt has appointed Josh DeFrain as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) effective immediately. 

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37% of IT professionals report experiencing a data loss event

Best practices for data protection were analyzed in a report finding that 25% of IT professionals follow industry best practices for backing up data.

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Security professional's tweet forces big change to Google email authentication

Less than a month after BIMI’s roll-out, scammers found a way around its controls and were able to successfully impersonate brands, sending emails to Google users that impersonated the logistics giant UPS.

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Asylum Ambuscade: crimeware or cyberespionage?

The group targets bank customers and cryptocurrency traders in various regions, including North America and Europe, as well as government entities in Europe and Central Asia.

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Interpol: Human Trafficking is Fueling Fraud Epidemic

Interpol is concerned about the threat, which first emerged in 2021, as it has spread from a focus on Chinese-speaking victims based in China, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore, to as far afield as South America, East Africa, and Western Europe.

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German Recruiter Pflegia Leaks 360,000 Files Containing Sensitive Job Seeker Information

The exposed AWS bucket held hundreds of thousands of files with sensitive information, including user-submitted resumes with details such as full names, dates of birth, and occupation history.

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API Vulnerabilities in Honda eCommerce Platform Exposed Customer, Dealer Data

A researcher has disclosed the details of serious vulnerabilities discovered in a Honda e-commerce platform used for equipment sales. Exploitation of the flaws could have allowed an attacker to gain access to customer and dealer information.

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Experts Unveil PoC Exploit for Recent Windows Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation

Details have emerged about a now-patched actively exploited security flaw in Microsoft Windows that could be abused by a threat actor to gain elevated privileges on affected systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-29336, is rated 7.8 for severity and concerns an elevation of privilege bug in the Win32k component. "An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain