Tag: CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents

Anonymous Rises Again Amid Russia Ukraine War

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Anonymous, the international hacktivists collective has surfaced again, this time, the group claims to have hacked RoskoAmnadzor (known as Federal Service for Supervision of…

Ukraine’s “IT Army” Struck with Info-stealing Malware

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Pro-Ukrainian actors should be cautious of downloading DDoS tools to attack Russia, according to security experts, because they could be booby-trapped with data-stealing malware. …

Multiple Security Bugs Identified in Software Package Managers

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Cybersecurity researchers at SonarSource have unearthed multiple security bugs in popular package managers including Pip, Yarn, Composer, and others. The vulnerabilities can be exploited…

Misconfigured Keys are Tackled in ServiceNow’s Guidelines

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   ServiceNow, a $4.5 billion software company assisting businesses with its digital workflows, has released recommendations for its clients regarding Access Control List (ACL) misconfiguration. …

Vodafone Investigates Source Code Theft Claims

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Vodafone launched an inquiry after a group of hackers claimed that they stole a hundred GBs of source codes from the telecom company. The cybercrime…

Threat Actors Modified Open-Source Tool to Target organizations

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed an interesting ransomware campaign in which the malicious actors employed custom tools commonly used by APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) groups.…

Telegram Abused By Raccoon Stealer

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   As per a post released by Avast Threat Labs this week, Raccoon Stealer, which was first identified in April 2019, has added the capacity…

New RURansom Wiper Targets Russia

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   The new RURansom malware, according to Trend Micro researchers, is not what it appears to be. Initially assumed to be a new strain of…

Businesse’s Pascom Cloud Phone System Contains Severe RCE Flaws

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Pascom’s Cloud Phone System has been completely compromised since a combination of three unique vulnerabilities was discovered by security researchers. Daniel Eshetu of Ethiopian…

Single Packets Launching DDoS Attacks in the Wild

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Cybersecurity experts from Akamai, Cloudflare, Mitel, Netscour, Lumen Black Lotus Labs, The ShadowServer foundation, Telus, and Team Cymru have revealed a DDoS (denial of…

UPI Turns Webless

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   While UPI has grown in popularity since its inception in 2016, it has yet to reach rural areas where smartphone ownership is low and…

Fresh Flaws in Facebook Canvas Second Time

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   A team of cyber threat researchers at Facebook discovered the second tranche of bugs in Facebook Canvas that increase the risks of account takeover. …

Microsoft Fixes Critical Azure Bug That Exposed Customer Data

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Microsoft has discovered a new vulnerability in the Azure Automation service, addressed as ‘AutoWarp’, that could have allowed malicious actors to take full control of…

Google WAF Circumvented Via Oversized POST Requests

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   It is possible to circumvent Google’s cloud-based defences due to security flaws in the default protection offered by the company’s web application firewall (WAF). …

Hackers Expose 190GB of Alleged Samsung Data

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Hackers that exposed secret information from Nvidia have now turned their attention to Samsung. The hacker group known as Lapsus$ is suspected of taking…

Cyberattack Logan Health and Server Intrusion

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   After a sophisticated intrusion on its IT systems resulted in the compromise of a file server containing protected health information, Logan Health Medical Center…

Ukrainian Government Websites Shut Down due to Cyberattack

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Ukrainian state authorities’ websites have stopped working. At the moment, the website of the Ukrainian president, as well as resources on the gov.ua domain…

Is Malware Analysis Challenging?

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   To minimize the likelihood and possible effect of cyberattacks, security teams require greater detection and analytic capabilities. Despite this, companies are limited in their…

Log4Shell Utilized for Crypto Mining and Botnet Creation

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   The serious problem in Apache’s widely used Log4j project, known as Log4Shell, hasn’t caused the calamity predicted, but it is still being exploited, primarily…

Android Malware in Google Play Stealing Victim’s Data

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Cyber threat intelligence warned the users that an Android banking malware ‘TeaBot’ stealing users’ private data and SMS messages has been downloaded thousands of…

Hackers Becoming More Advanced at Escaping AI/ML Technologies

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Deep Instinct Threat Research team deeply enquired attack volumes and types and then extracted their results to forecast the future of cybersecurity scenarios, deciding…

E-Bike Phishing Sites Abuse Google Ads to Push Scams

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   A large-scale phishing campaign making headlines involving over 200 scam sites that are deceiving users into providing their sensitive data to the fake investments…

Cyber Attacks Targeted on Websites Using WordPress

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Thirty Ukrainian Universities were hacked as a result of the targeted cyberattack supporting Russia’s attack on Ukraine. In the latest report, experts from Wordfence said…

Ukrainian Researcher Released  Software for Conti Ransomware

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Conti, the notorious ransomware gang, is now the subject of cyberattacks following its proclamation early last week, it wholeheartedly supports Russia’s continuing invasion of…

Cyberattack on NATP Can Trigger Collective Defense Issue

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Cyberattack on a NATO member State can incite Article 5, the collective defense clause, said a NATO official on Monday, amid threats that disturbance…

Viasat Claims Delay on a “Cyber Event”

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Viasat Inc., an American communications provider, claims its satellite internet services in Ukraine and Europe are being disrupted by a “cyber incident.”  Based in…

Moscow Exchange Downed by Cyber-Attack

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   On Monday morning, the website for the Moscow Stock Exchange went down, becoming inaccessible.  The Ukraine crowdsourced community of hackers operated by the Kyiv…

Nvidia Confirms Company Data Was Stolen in a Breach

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Last week Chipmaker company Nvidia witnessed a cyberattack that breached its network. The company has confirmed that the intruders got access to proprietary information…

Carpet Bombing DDoS Attacks Increased in 2021

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   In a carpet bombing, a DDoS attack targets different IPs of any company in a short span of time, these account for 44% of…

DDoS Assaults on Ukrainian Banking Elite has Resumed Yet Again

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents Cyberattacks took down Ukrainian official and bank websites, prompting the government to declare a statewide state of emergency amid growing fears that Russian President Vladimir…

EU Countries Provide Cyber-defense Support to Ukraine

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   European Union countries have reportedly agreed to assist Ukraine in combating possible Russian cyber-attacks. The assistance appears to be coming from the EU’s Cyber…

Spyware Infests the Microsoft Store with Classic Game Pirates

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Electron Bot, a malware which infiltrated Microsoft’s Official Store via clones of popular games like Subway Surfer and Temple Run, infected approximately 5,000 machines…

Iran’s MuddyWater Hacker Group is Exploiting New Malware

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   According to a notice issued by US security and law enforcement authorities, Iran-linked cyber activities are targeting a variety of government and private organizations…

Ukraine: DDoS Attacks on State Websites Continue

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Since February 23, some Ukrainian government websites have been subjected to DDoS attacks: web resources of the Ministry of Defense, the Verkhovna Rada of…

US Defense Contractors Struck by SockDetour Windows backdoor

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   SockDetour, a new custom malware discovered on US defence contractor computers, has been utilised as a backup backdoor to sustain access to hijacked networks. …

Users at Citibank Attacked by a Massive Phishing Scam

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Scammers impersonating Citibank are now targeting customers in an online phishing campaign. Thousands of bogus email messages were sent to bank customers, according to…

TrickBot Group Likely Moving Operations to Switch to New Malware

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   TrickBot, the notorious Windows crimeware-as-a-service (CaaS) solution used by several threat actors to distribute next-stage payloads like ransomware, looks to be in the midst…

Payment Card Skimming Resurfaces with an Internet Twist

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Card skimming has existed prior to the mainstream internet and is experiencing a revival as financial fraudsters recognise new potential to combine physical world…

Mac Coinminer Employs a Novel Approach to Mask Its Traffic

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   A Mac coinminer has been discovered exploiting customizable open-source software to enhance its malicious activity. This sample incorporates a variety of altered open-source elements…

OpenSea Phishing Scam Swindled Millions in NFTs

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   On Saturday, a phishing attack targeted 17 users of OpenSea, one of the major NFT markets, according to the company. The hack apparently resulted…

Brave Disabled a Chrome Extension Linked to Facebook Users

This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents   Last week, security analyst Zach Edwards stated how Brave had restricted the L.O.C. Chrome extension citing concerns it leaked the user’s Facebook information to…