A New York federal jury found a hacker guilty of all charges that he masterminded and carried out a scheme to fraudulently obtain $110 million from cryptocurrency exchange Mango Markets and investors. This article has been indexed from Cyware News…
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CrushFTP Warns Users to Patch Exploited Zero-Day “Immediately”
As the company also explains in a public security advisory published on Friday, this zero-day bug enables unauthenticated attackers to escape the user’s virtual file system (VFS) and download system files. This article has been indexed from Cyware News –…
Evil XDR: Researcher Turns Palo Alto Software Into Perfect Malware
In a briefing at Black Hat Asia, Shmuel Cohen, security researcher at SafeBreach, described how he not only reverse-engineered and cracked into the company’s signature Cortex product but also weaponized it to deploy a reverse shell and ransomware. This article…
Fake Cheat Lures Gamers Into Spreading Infostealer Malware
A new info-stealing malware linked to Redline poses as a game cheat called ‘Cheat Lab,’ promising downloaders a free copy if they convince their friends to install it too. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber…
NSA Shares Best Practices for Secure AI Systems
The guidance offers a wide range of best practices, including that organizations adopt a zero trust mindset, actively monitor the AI model’s behavior, and require the primary developer of the AI system to provide a threat model for their system.…
Dark Web Sales Driving Major Rise in Credential Attacks
A rise in infostealer malware attacks over the past three years has enabled cybercriminal groups to turn credential stealing into a major money-making business, paving the way for new entrants in the field and sophisticated hacking techniques. This article has…
Google Ad Impersonates Whales Market to Push Wallet Drainer Malware
A legitimate-looking Google Search advertisement for the crypto trading platform ‘Whales Market’ redirects visitors to a wallet-draining phishing site that steals all of your assets. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News Read the original…
Hacking the Floodgates: US Dams Face Growing Cyber Threats
Could a hacker seize control of America’s dams, unleashing floods and chaos across vulnerable communities? Cybersecurity analysts and leading lawmakers warn it’s possible. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News Read the original article: Hacking…
Ransomware Victims Who Pay a Ransom Drops to Record Low
That downward trend comes thanks to “enterprises large and small” being “increasingly able to withstand an encryption attack, and restore their operations without the need for a threat actor decryption key,” Coveware said. This article has been indexed from Cyware…
Cybercriminals Pose as LastPass Staff to Hack Password Vaults
The attacker combines multiple social engineering techniques that involve contacting the potential victim (voice phishing) and pretending to be a LastPass employee trying to help with securing the account following unauthorized access. This article has been indexed from Cyware News…
92% of Enterprises Unprepared for AI Security Challenges
Most industries continue to run almost two or more months behind in patching software vulnerabilities, endpoints remain vulnerable to threats, and most enterprise PCs must be replaced to support AI-based technologies, according to a new report. This article has been…
Damn Vulnerable RESTaurant: Open-Source API Service Designed for Learning
Damn Vulnerable RESTaurant is an open-source project that allows developers to learn to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in their code through an interactive game. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News Read the original…
Novel Android Malware Targets Korean Banking Users
A new banking Trojan is targeting Korean users using obfuscation techniques that target the Android manifest, exploit vulnerabilities and take advantage of weaknesses in how Android apps interpret this file. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest…
‘Crude’ Ransomware Tools Proliferating on the Dark Web for Cheap, Researchers Find
Researchers at the intelligence unit at the cybersecurity firm Sophos found 19 ransomware varieties being offered for sale or advertised as under development on four forums from June 2023 to February 2024. This article has been indexed from Cyware News…
FIN7 Targets American Automaker’s IT Staff in Phishing Attacks
The financially motivated threat actor FIN7 targeted a large U.S. car maker with spear-phishing emails for employees in the IT department to infect systems with the Anunak backdoor. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News…
Malvertising Campaign Targeting IT Teams with MadMxShell Backdoor
The backdoor uses techniques such as multiple stages of DLL sideloading and DNS tunneling for command-and-control (C2) communication as a means to evade endpoint and network security solutions, respectively. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber…
Russian Sandworm Hackers Pose as Hacktivists in Water Utility Breaches
In a report today, Mandiant says that Sandworm relied on three main hacktivist-branded Telegram channels named XakNet Team, CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn, and Solntsepek, all operating in parallel and independently of one another. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest…
Moldovan Charged for Operating Botnet Used to Push Ransomware
The U.S. Justice Department charged Moldovan national Alexander Lefterov, the owner and operator of a large-scale botnet that infected thousands of computers across the United States. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News Read the…
Armis Buys Cyber Remediation Startup Silk Security for $150M
Armis has purchased a security prioritization and remediation vendor led by a Goldman Sachs veteran to more effectively address vulnerabilities and misconfigurations with AI and automation. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News Read the…
Possible Chinese Hackers Use OpenMetadata for Cryptomining
Hackers who appear to be Chinese are exploiting vulnerabilities in the OpenMetadata platform running as workloads on Kubernetes clusters to download cryptomining software, warns Microsoft. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News Read the original…