The FCC has fined four major U.S. wireless carriers – AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon – a total of nearly $200 million for unlawfully selling access to their customers’ real-time location data without consent. This article has been indexed from…
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Google Rejected 2.28 Million Risky Android Apps From Play Store in 2023
Additionally, the tech giant reports that it identified and blocked 333,000 Google Play accounts that uploaded malware, fraudulent apps, or engaged in repeated grave policy violations. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News Read the…
Security Flaws in IRS Systems Pose Risk to Financial Statements, GAO Says
In its report, the GAO highlighted “new and continuing” shortcomings with information systems and the safeguarding of assets, issues that increase the likelihood of unauthorized access to sensitive IRS data. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest…
The Darkgate Menace: Leveraging Autohotkey & Attempt to Evade SmartScreen
Researchers found a novel infection chain associated with the DarkGate malware, which is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) developed using Borland Delphi and marketed as a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) offering on a Russian-language cybercrime forum. This article has been indexed from…
DDoS Attacks Continue, Post-Election, Against Russian Independent Media Site Meduza
In April, Meduza faced two large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, prompting it to reach out to Qurium to investigate their origin and composition, the researchers said. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News Read the…
More Than 800 Vulnerabilities Resolved Through CISA Ransomware Notification Pilot
The Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot was unveiled in January 2023 as a program designed to “identify organizations with internet-accessible vulnerabilities commonly associated with known ransomware actors.” This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News Read the…
British Intelligence Moves to Protect Research Universities From Espionage
The head of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency warned the country’s leading research universities on Thursday that foreign states are targeting their institutions and imperiling national security. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News Read the…
Report: 73% of SME Security Professionals Missed or Ignored Critical Alerts
IT staff at SMEs is overwhelmed by the complexity and demands of managing multiple tools in their security stack, leading them to miss critical severity events and weaken their company’s security posture, according to Coro. This article has been indexed…
DHS Announces AI Safety Board with OpenAI Founder, CEOs of Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM
Members will include representatives of tech companies, critical infrastructure entities, academia, and government agencies, as well as “leaders in the civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy communities,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. This article has been indexed from Cyware News…
Know-Your-Customer Executive Order Facing Stiff Opposition From Cloud Industry
A controversial executive order that would require U.S. cloud companies to closely monitor the identities of their customers will move one step closer to the finish line next week amid opposition from the industry. This article has been indexed from…
Most People Still Rely on Memory or Pen and Paper for Password Management
A Bitwarden survey showed that 25% of respondents globally reuse passwords across 11-20+ accounts, and 36% admit to using personal information in their credentials publicly accessible on social media (60%) platforms and online forums (30%). This article has been indexed…
Okta Warns of Unprecedented Scale in Credential Stuffing Attacks on Online Services
The attacks recently observed by Okta route requests through anonymizing services like TOR and residential proxies such as NSOCKS, Luminati, and DataImpulse. The experts noticed that millions of requests have been routed through these services. This article has been indexed…
Palo Alto Updates Remediation for Max-Critical Firewall Bug
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-3400, has a CVSS score of 10 out of 10, and can allow an unauthenticated threat actor to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the firewall device, according to the update. This article has been…
Japanese police create fake support scam payment cards to warn victims
The cards are labeled “Virus Trojan Horse Removal Payment Card” and “Unpaid Bill Late Fee Payment Card,” and were created by the Echizen Police in the Fukui prefecture in Japan as an alert mechanism. This article has been indexed from…
Analysis of Native Process CLR Hosting Used by AgentTesla
The initial infection vector is a Word document that downloads and executes a 64-bit Rust-compiled binary. This binary then downloads an encoded shellcode containing the AgentTesla payload. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News Read…
US Post Office Phishing Sites Get as Much Traffic as the Real One
Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic to the fake domains is typically similar to what the legitimate site records and it is even higher during holidays. This article has been…
Thousands of Qlik Sense Servers Open to Cactus Ransomware
Nearly five months after security researchers warned of the Cactus ransomware group leveraging a set of three vulnerabilities in Qlik Sense data analytics and BI platform, many organizations remain dangerously vulnerable to the threat. This article has been indexed from…
FBI: Fraudsters Using Fake Online Dating Verification Apps to Scam Lovers
The FBI published a warning on Friday about the scam, noting that it was akin to an offshoot of romance scams and pig butchering schemes that have proliferated in recent years. This article has been indexed from Cyware News –…
Zero-Day from 2017 Used Along With Cobalt Strike Loader in Unholy Alliance
The operation involves a malicious PPSX file that drops a custom loader for the Cobalt Strike Beacon malware. The loader employs various techniques to slow down analysis and bypass security solutions. This article has been indexed from Cyware News –…
New Brokewell Malware Takes Over Android Devices, Steals Data
The malware is delivered through a fake Google Chrome update that is shown while using the web browser. Brokewell is under active development and features a mix of extensive device takeover and remote control capabilities. This article has been indexed…