Wired attributes the recently disclosed AT&T data breach to a hacker living in Turkey and reported the company paid a $370,000 ransom. An American hacker who lives in Turkey claimed responsibility for the recently disclosed AT&T data breach. The man…
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HardBit ransomware version 4.0 supports new obfuscation techniques
Cybersecurity researchers detailed a new version of the HardBit ransomware that supports new obfuscation techniques to avoid detection. The new version (version 4.0) of the HardBit ransomware comes with the Binary Obfuscation Enhancement with passphrase protection. The ransomware requires the…
Dark Gate malware campaign uses Samba file shares
A Dark Gate malware campaign from March-April 2024 demonstrates how attackers exploit legitimate tools and services to distribute malware. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers shared details about a DarkGate malware campaign from March-April 2024. Threat actors used Microsoft Excel…
Security Affairs Malware Newsletter – Round 2
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. New Android Spyware Steals Data from Gamers and TikTok Users A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Practical Black-box Adversarial Attacks for Evading…
Security Affairs newsletter Round 480 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov…
Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was sentenced to prison for his role in Zeus and IcedID operations
Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was sentenced to prison for his role in Zeus and IcedID malware operations. The U.S. DoJ sentenced the Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (37) to prison and ordered him to pay millions of dollars in…
Rite Aid disclosed data breach following RansomHub ransomware attack
The American drugstore chain Rite Aid Corporation disclosed a data breach following the cyber attack that hit the company in June. The American drugstore chain giant Rite Aid suffered a data breach following a cyberattack in June conducted by the…
New AT&T data breach exposed call logs of almost all customers
AT&T disclosed a new data breach that exposed phone call and text message records for approximately 110 million people. AT&T suffered a massive data breach, attackers stole the call logs for approximately 110 million customers, which are almost all of…
Critical flaw in Exim MTA could allow to deliver malware to users’ inboxes
A critical vulnerability in Exim mail server allows attackers to deliver malicious executable attachments to mailboxes. Attackers can exploit a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-39929 (CVSS score of 9.1), in the Exim mail transfer agent to deliver malicious attachments…
Palo Alto Networks fixed a critical bug in the Expedition tool
Palo Alto Networks addressed five vulnerabilities impacting its products, including a critical authentication bypass issue. Palo Alto Networks released security updates to address five security flaws impacting its products, the most severe issue, tracked as CVE-2024-5910 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a missing authentication…
October ransomware attack on Dallas County impacted over 200,000 people
The ransomware attack that hit Dallas County in October 2023 has impacted more than 200,000 individuals exposing their personal information. In October 2023 the Play ransomware group hit Dallas County, Texas, and added the city to its Tor leak site…
Smishing Triad Is Targeting India To Steal Personal and Payment Data at Scale
Resecurity has identified a new campaign by the Smishing Triad that is targeting India to steal personal and payment data at scale Resecurity (USA) identified a new campaign targeting India Post (Department of Posts, India) by the Smishing Triad, which…
CrystalRay operations have scaled 10x to over 1,500 victims
A threat actor known as CrystalRay targeted 1,500 victims since February using tools like SSH-Snake and various open-source utilities. The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) first spotted the threat actor CrystalRay on February 2024 and observed it using the SSH-Snake open-source software penetration testing…
Multiple threat actors exploit PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver malware
Multiple threat actors exploit a recently disclosed security PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver multiple malware families. The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) warns that multiple threat actors are exploiting the PHP vulnerability CVE-2024-4577 to deliver multiple malware families, including…
AI-Powered Russia’s bot farm operates on X, US and its allies warn
The US and its allies disrupted an AI-powered Russia-linked bot farm on the social media platform X relying on the Meliorator AI software. The U.S. FBI and Cyber National Mission Force, along with Dutch and Canadian intelligence and security agencies,…
VMware fixed critical SQL-Injection in Aria Automation product
VMware addressed a critical SQL-Injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-22280, impacting Aria Automation. Virtualization giant VMware addressed a high-severity SQL-injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-22280 (CVSSv3 base score of 8.5), in its Aria Automation solution. VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation) is a modern…
Citrix fixed critical and high-severity bugs in NetScaler product
IT giant Citrix addressed multiple vulnerabilities, including critical and high-severity issues in its NetScaler product. Citrix released security updates to address critical and high-severity issues in its NetScaler product. The most severe issue is an improper authorization flaw, tracked as…
Multiple cybersecurity agencies warn of China-linked APT40 ‘s capabilities
Multiple cybersecurity agencies released a joint advisory warning about a China-linked group APT40 ‘s capability to rapidly exploit disclosed security flaws. Cybersecurity agencies from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, the U.K., and the U.S. released a joint…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2024 fixed 2 actively exploited zero-days
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2024 addressed 139 flaws, including two actively exploited zero-days. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2024 addressed 139 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office Components; .NET and Visual Studio;…
A new flaw in OpenSSH can lead to remote code execution
A vulnerability affects some versions of the OpenSSH secure networking suite, it can potentially lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability CVE-2024-6409 (CVSS score: 7.0) impacts select versions of the OpenSSH secure networking suite, it can be exploited to achieve…