Recently emerged HardBit ransomware gang adjusts their demands so the insurance company would cover the ransom cost. The HardBit ransomware group first appeared on the threat landscape in October 2022, but unlike other ransomware operations, it doesn’t use a double…
New report reveals Britons are ‘phishing’ bait for online criminals
Millions of Britons (1) have now fallen victim to an online scam, losing life savings, their identity, passwords, photos or vital personal data. Yet, despite contributing to the billions of pounds (2) lost annually to cybercrime in the UK, Britons…
What Makes Helsinki the Mobile Gaming Capital?
While some of the world’s most ambitious and successful game makers reside on the streets of this relatively quiet northern European capital, they are often covered with snow. This gives them a comfortable environment to thrive. Finland was the…
Introducing Stealc, a New Infostealer
Stealc, a new data stealer that has emerged on the dark web, is gaining popularity largely to heavy marketing of its theft capability and resemblances to related viruses like Vidar, Raccoon, Mars, and Redline. Researchers at SEKOIA.IO in January 2023 came…
Norwegian Authority Recovers Crypto Stolen in the North Korea Based Axie Heist
Civil authorities in Norway have announced this Thursday that they have recovered $5.9 million worth cryptocurrency. This enormous amount of crypto was apparently stolen in the Axie Infinity hack, largely believed to have been caused by the Lazarus Group, which…
HardBit ransomware demands ransom based on insurance cover
All these days we have read about ransomware spreading groups stealing data and then threatening to release it online, if the victim fails to pay heed to their demands. But now a new file encrypting malware variant has emerged onto…
HardBit ramsonware strikes back
HardBit ramsonware strikes back You’ve probably received an email claiming it came from the UN or a Ministry of some country at least once. In this email, the Secretary General of the […] Thank you for being a Ghacks reader.…
Down the Cloudflare / Stripe / OWASP Rabbit Hole: A Tale of 6 Rabbits Deep 🐰 🐰 🐰 🐰 🐰 🐰
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PoC exploit, IoCs for Fortinet FortiNAC RCE released (CVE-2022-39952)
Horizon3’s Attack Team has released a PoC exploit for CVE-2022-39952, a critical vulnerability affecting FortiNAC, Fortinet’s network access control solution. “Similar to the weaponization of previous archive vulnerability issues that allow arbitrary file write, we use this vulnerability to write…
Companies Affected by Ransomware [2022-2023]
The increasing frequency and size of ransomware attacks are becoming a huge concern for thousands of organizations globally. All over the world, threat actors take advantage of security vulnerabilities and encrypt data belonging to all sorts of organizations: from private…
Insider Threats Don’t Mean Insiders Are Threatening
By implementing tools that enable internal users to do their jobs efficiently and securely, companies reduce insider threat risk by building insider trust. This article has been indexed from Dark Reading Read the original article: Insider Threats Don’t Mean Insiders…
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Chinese Gadget: A Potent Tool to Spy on UK Citizens
Our smartphones, the websites we visit, and CCTV cameras are harvesting invaluable data about our lives by tracking every move we make hundreds of thousands of times per day. A large portion of this data is stored in China.…
Self-Publishing Authors Flock To ChatGPT
ChatGPT already used to author hundreds of self-published ebooks, as questions remain over ethical, legal issues – not to mention quality This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Self-Publishing Authors Flock To ChatGPT
What’s DevOps, SRE, Shift Left, and Shift Right?
I had the opportunity to catch up with Andi Grabner, DevOps Activist at Dynatrace, during day two of Dynatrace Perform. I’ve known Andi for seven years, and he’s one of the people that has helped me understand DevOps since I…
Direct Kernel Object Manipulation (DKOM) Attacks on ETW Providers
Overview In this post, IBM Security X-Force Red offensive hackers analyze how attackers, with elevated privileges, can use their access to stage Windows Kernel post-exploitation capabilities. Over the last few years, public accounts have increasingly shown that less sophisticated attackers…
Will Charging Station Cyberattacks Impact the EV Boom?
During a recent get-together, my friend arrived late. She apologized, quickly explaining that she’d had trouble finding a charging station for her electric vehicle (EV). While she knew where the stations in her hometown were, she couldn’t easily find them…
AI Helps Crack NIST-Recommended Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithm
The CRYSTALS-Kyber public-key encryption and key encapsulation mechanism recommended by NIST for post-quantum cryptography has been broken using AI combined with side channel attacks. The post AI Helps Crack NIST-Recommended Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithm appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has…
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MyloBot Botnet Spreading Rapidly Worldwide: Infecting Over 50,000 Devices Daily
A sophisticated botnet known as MyloBot has compromised thousands of systems, with most of them located in India, the U.S., Indonesia, and Iran. That’s according to new findings from BitSight, which said it’s “currently seeing more than 50,000 unique infected systems every…
Over confidence is putting children at risk online says Kaspersky research
Research into the online safety of children has found that 65% of young people are unable to identify a phishing attack and cannot tell the difference between a scam and a legitimate email. Additionally, 48% of children (11-15) who say…
What can we learn from the latest Coinbase cyberattack?
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has fended off a cyberattack that might have been mounted by the same attackers that targeted Twillio, Cloudflare and many other companies last year. Leveraging smishing and vishing, the attackers tried to trick Coinbase employees into sharing…
The Center for Cyber Safety and Education Evolves Its Mission Statement
The Center for Cyber Safety and Education, the charitable foundation of (ISC)² founded in 2011, aims to grow the cybersecurity profession and its positive impact on the world by raising awareness, building a diverse pipeline of cybersecurity professionals and activating…
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Samsung Galaxy smartphones are getting this new security feature
Zero-click attacks don’t need you to interact with them to hack your phone. Samsung Message Guard aims to stop them from getting through. This article has been indexed from Latest stories for ZDNET in Security Read the original article: Samsung…
ESET SMB Digital Security Sentiment Report: The damaging effects of a breach
SMBs need to not only reduce their odds of being hit by an attack, but also implement processes that they can follow if their defenses are breached The post ESET SMB Digital Security Sentiment Report: The damaging effects of a…
A New Kind of Bug Spells Trouble for iOS and macOS Security
Security researchers found a class of flaws that, if exploited, would allow an attacker to access people’s messages, photos, and call history. This article has been indexed from Security Latest Read the original article: A New Kind of Bug Spells…