Victims were placed in serious danger following highly sensitive data dump The City of Columbus, Ohio, has confirmed half a million people's data was accessed and potentially stolen when Rhysida's ransomware raided its systems over the...
Also, ecommerce fraud ring disrupted, another Operation Power Off victory, Sino SOHO botnet spotted, and more Security in brief The US Department of Justice has charged six people with two separate schemes to defraud Uncle Sam out of...
A US district court sentenced a Nigerian man for an elaborate ‘man-in-the-middle’ phishing campaign, which resulted in $12m in losses from real-estate transactions
US government agencies said the video, widely shared on social media, is part of Russia’s broader strategy of undermining the integrity of the Presidential Election
German law enforcement authorities have announced the disruption of a criminal service called dstat[.]cc that made it possible for other threat actors to easily mount distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. "The platform made such...
Mondays are for checking months of logs, apparently, if MFA's not enabled In potentially bad news for those with long names and/or employers with verbose domain names, Okta spotted a security hole that could have allowed crims to pass...
This week was a total digital dumpster fire! Hackers were like, "Let's cause some chaos!" and went after everything from our browsers to those fancy cameras that zoom and spin. (You know, the ones they use in spy movies?
As the holiday season approaches, retail businesses are gearing up for their annual surge in online (and in-store) traffic. Unfortunately, this increase in activity also attracts cybercriminals looking to exploit vulnerabilities for...
Is that a walrus in your server logs, or aren't you pleased to see me? Opinion At the start of September, Transport for London was hit by a major cyber attack. TfL is the public body that moves many of London's human bodies to and from...
Google said it discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the SQLite open-source database engine using its large language model (LLM) assisted framework called Big Sleep (formerly Project Naptime). The tech giant described the development as...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of a well-known Android malware family dubbed FakeCall that employs voice phishing (aka vishing) techniques to trick users into parting with their personal information. "FakeCall is...
While Lebanese are united against Israel’s onslaught, some in southern towns where Hezbollah does not hold sway say they feel caught between Israel’s firepower and Hezbollah’s fighters.
Calls for improvements will soon turn into demands when new rules come into force The UK's finance regulator is urging all institutions under its remit to better prepare for IT meltdowns like that of CrowdStrike in July.…
Did you know that advanced threat actors can infiltrate the identity systems of major organizations and extract sensitive data within days? It’s a chilling reality, becoming more common and concerning by the day. These attackers exploit...
The Biden administration sent envoys including the C.I.A. director to the Middle East this week, but Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas all appeared far from a deal to end the fighting.
Robert Shonov worked for 25 years for consulate and was arrested on suspicion of passing secret information about war in Ukraine to US A Russian former employee of the US consulate in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok has been...
U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity agencies have published a new advisory attributing an Iranian cyber group to targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics and compromising a French commercial dynamic display provider to show messages denouncing...
US and Israeli government agencies have warned that the Iranian state-sponsored threat actor Cotton Sandstorm is deploying new tradecraft to expand its operations
Local authority websites downed in response to renewed support for Ukraine Multiple UK councils had their websites either knocked offline or were inaccessible to residents this week after pro-Russia cyber nuisances added them to a daily...
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a "massive" campaign that targets exposed Git configurations to siphon credentials, clone private repositories, and even extract cloud credentials from the source code. The activity, codenamed...
With so many SaaS applications, a range of configuration options, API capabilities, endless integrations, and app-to-app connections, the SaaS risk possibilities are endless. Critical organizational assets and data are at risk from...
Microsoft has revealed that a Chinese threat actor it tracks as Storm-0940 is leveraging a botnet called Quad7 to orchestrate highly evasive password spray attacks. The tech giant has given the botnet the name CovertNetwork-1658, stating...
Microsoft is further delaying the release of its controversial Recall feature for Windows Copilot+ PCs, stating it's taking the time to improve the experience. The development was first reported by The Verge. The artificial...
How 'Gary' defeated Bowser broke into the interactive alarm clock A hacker who uses the handle GaryOderNichts has found a way to break into Nintendo's recently launched Alarmo clock, and run code on the device.…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new phishing kit that has been put to use in campaigns targeting Australia, Japan, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. since at least September 2024. Netcraft said more than 2,000 phishing websites...
Emeraldwhale gang looked sharp – until it made a common S3 bucket mistake A criminal operation dubbed Emeraldwhale has been discovered after it dumped more than 15,000 credentials belonging to cloud service and email providers in an open...