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2 Men From Europe Charged With ‘Swatting’ Plot Targeting Former US President and Members of Congress
A former US president and several members of Congress were targets of a plot carried out by two European men to intimidate and threaten dozens of people by calling in bogus reports of police emergencies at their homes. The post…
Hackers Exploited Digital Advertising Tools to Launch Malicious Campaigns
Cybersecurity researchers from Mandiant and Google Cloud have uncovered a sophisticated scheme where hackers exploit digital advertising tools to conduct malicious campaigns. These tools, originally designed to enhance marketing efforts, have been repurposed by threat actors to evade detection and…
DMARC Deployment Phases: What to Expect and How to Prepare
Reading Time: 6 min Master DMARC deployment in 5 steps. Learn to configure SPF/DKIM, analyze reports, and gradually enforce policies. The post DMARC Deployment Phases: What to Expect and How to Prepare appeared first on Security Boulevard. This article has…
Accenture expands partnership with Google Cloud to boost AI adoption and cybersecurity
Accenture and Google Cloud announced that their strategic alliance is advancing solutions for enterprise clients and seeing strong momentum across industries in two critical and related areas: GenAI and cybersecurity. As part of the announcement today, the two companies are…
Hackers Repeatedly Using Same iOS & Chrome Exploits to Attack Government Websites
Hackers have been exploiting vulnerabilities in iOS and Google Chrome to target government websites, particularly in Mongolia. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) observed these attacks, which have been linked to the Russian government-backed actor APT29. The hackers have repeatedly used…
US Election-Themed Phishing Scams Rely on Fake Donation Sites
The domain actsblue[.]com is posing as the legitimate actblue[.]com, a platform for Democratic Party donations. The malicious site is registered anonymously with Namecheap, making it difficult to trace back to the threat actors. This article has been indexed from Cyware…
Buffer Overflow Flaw in TP-Link Routers Opens Door to RCE
A critical vulnerability, CVE-2024-42815, with a CVSS score of 9.8, has been discovered in TP-Link RE365 V1_180213 series routers, allowing for remote exploitation and potential takeover. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest Cyber News Read the…
Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability Exploited in Crypto Mining Campaigns
Threat actors are actively exploiting a now-patched, critical security flaw impacting the Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server to conduct illicit cryptocurrency mining on susceptible instances. “The attacks involve threat actors that employ methods such as the deployment of…
New Cyberattack Targets Chinese-Speaking Businesses with Cobalt Strike Payloads
Chinese-speaking users are the target of a “highly organized and sophisticated attack” campaign that is likely leveraging phishing emails to infect Windows systems with Cobalt Strike payloads. “The attackers managed to move laterally, establish persistence and remain undetected within the…
SANS Institute Unveils Critical Infrastructure Strategy Guide for 2024: A Call to Action for Securing ICS/OT Environments
A comprehensive guide authored by Dean Parsons emphasizes the growing need for specialized ICS security measures in the face of rising cyber threats. With a staggering 50% increase in ransomware attacks targeting industrial control systems (ICS) in 2023, the SANS…
North Korean Hackers Target Developers with Malicious npm Packages
Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed publishing a set of malicious packages to the npm registry, indicating “coordinated and relentless” efforts to target developers with malware and steal cryptocurrency assets. The latest wave, which was observed…
Deepfake Scams, Fake Global Protect Malware, and Russian Threats:Cybersecurity Today: for Friday, August 30th, 2024
In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, host Jim Love dives into the alarming rise of deepfake scams, highlighting how threat actors are using AI-generated videos to lure victims into fraudulent schemes. A notable campaign involves deepfake videos of Elon Musk…
Palo Alto Networks found to spread Malware
Palo Alto Networks is currently being misused as a cover for malware distribution. Although the California-based cybersecurity company is not involved in these activities, hackers are exploiting the company’s name to propagate malware disguised as the ‘Palo Alto Networks Global…
How Ransomware Is Evolving into a Geopolitical Weapon
In recent years, ransomware attacks have evolved from mere cyber-criminal activities into sophisticated tools of geopolitical maneuvering. As the digital landscape continues to expand, ransomware has emerged not just as a method of financial extortion but as a potent geopolitical…
Russia-linked APT29 reused iOS and Chrome exploits previously developed by NSO Group and Intellexa
Russia-linked APT29 group was spotted reusing iOS and Chrome exploits previously developed by surveillance firms NSO Group and Intellexa. Google TAG (Threat Analysis Group) researchers observed the Russia-linked group APT29 (aka SVR group, BlueBravo, Cozy Bear, Nobelium, Midnight Blizzard, and The Dukes). using exploits previously used…
Lookiero – 4,981,760 breached accounts
In August 2024, a data breach from the online styling service Lookiero was posted to a popular hacking forum. Dating back to March 2024, the data included 5M unique email addresses, with many of the records also including name, phone…
A macro look at the most pressing cybersecurity risks
Forescout’s 2024H1 Threat Review is a new report that reviews the current state of vulnerabilities, threat actors, and ransomware attacks in the first half of 2024 and compares them to H1 2023. “Attackers are looking for any weak point to…
Iran hunts down double agents with fake recruiting sites, Mandiant reckons
Farsi-language posts target possibly-pro-Israel individuals Government-backed Iranian actors allegedly set up dozens of fake recruiting websites and social media accounts to hunt down double agents and dissidents suspected of collaborating with the nation’s enemies, including Israel.… This article has been…
Sinon: Open-source automatic generative burn-in for Windows deception hosts
Sinon is an open-source, modular tool for the automatic burn-in of Windows-based deception hosts. It aims to reduce the difficulty of orchestrating deception hosts at scale while enabling diversity and randomness through generative capabilities. Sinon is designed to automate the…