In cooperation with Europol and Eurojust, law enforcement agencies from seven nations have arrested in Ukraine the core members of a ransomware group linked to attacks against organizations in 71 countries. [...] | Continue reading
Microsoft is deprecating Defender Application Guard for Office and the Windows Security Isolation APIs, and it recommends Defender for Endpoint attack surface reduction rules, Protected View, and Windows Defender Application Control as an alternative. [...] | Continue reading
A ransomware attack on the "Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore" MMORPG last Friday destroyed 17,000 player accounts, deleting their in-game items and progress in the game. [...] | Continue reading
American healthcare company Henry Schein has reported a second cyberattack this month by the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang, who also breached their network in October. [...] | Continue reading
Ukraine's intelligence service, operating under the Defense Ministry, claims they hacked Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, 'Rosaviatsia,' to expose a purported collapse of Russia's aviation sector. [...] | Continue reading
Ardent Health Services, a healthcare provider operating 30 hospitals across five U.S. states, disclosed today that its systems were hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday. [...] | Continue reading
Slovenian power company Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) has suffered a ransomware attack that compromised its systems and encrypted files, yet the company says the incident did not disrupt electric power production. [...] | Continue reading
Effective strategies for mitigating insider threats involve a combination of detective and preventive controls. Such controls are provided by the Wazuh SIEM and XDR platform. [...] | Continue reading
Google Drive users are reporting that recent files stored in the cloud have suddenly disappeared, with the cloud service reverting to a storage snapshot as it was around April-May 2023. [...] | Continue reading
A new version of the multi-platform malware known as 'SysJoker' has been spotted, featuring a complete code rewrite in the Rust programming language. [...] | Continue reading
General Electric is investigating claims that a threat actor breached the company's development environment in a cyberattack and leaked allegedly stolen data. [...] | Continue reading
The 'ClearFake' fake browser update campaign has expanded to macOS, targeting Apple computers with Atomic Stealer (AMOS) malware. [...] | Continue reading
Open source file sharing software ownCloud is warning of three critical-severity security vulnerabilities, including one that can expose administrator passwords and mail server credentials. [...] | Continue reading
A joint advisory by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) discloses a supply-chain attack executed by North Korean hackers involving the MagicLineThe National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Korea's National Intelligence Servic … | Continue reading
A cyberattack on CTS, a leading managed service provider (MSP) for law firms and other organizations in the UK legal sector, is behind a major outage impacting numerous law firms and home buyers in the country since Wednesday. [...] | Continue reading
The popular Zero2Automated malware analysis and reverse-engineering course has a Black Friday 2023 through Cyber Monday sale, where you can get 25% off sitewide, including gift certificates and courses. [...] | Continue reading
The Kansas Judicial Branch has published an update on a cybersecurity incident it suffered last month, confirming that hackers stole sensitive files containing confidential information from its systems. [...] | Continue reading
Security researchers bypassed Windows Hello fingerprint authentication on Dell Inspiron, Lenovo ThinkPad, and Microsoft Surface Pro X laptops in attacks exploiting security flaws found in the embedded fingerprint sensors. [...] | Continue reading
Healthcare SaaS provider Welltok is warning that a data breach exposed the personal data of nearly 8.5 million patients in the U.S. after a file transfer program used by the company was hacked in a data theft attack. [...] | Continue reading
Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group has breached Taiwanese multimedia software company CyberLink and trojanized one of its installers to push malware in a supply chain attack targeting potential victims worldwide. [...] | Continue reading
A new Mirai-based malware botnet named 'InfectedSlurs' has been exploiting two zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. [...] | Continue reading
Black Friday 2023 is here, and great deals are live in computer security, software, online courses, system admin services, antivirus, and VPN software. [...] | Continue reading
Blender has confirmed that recent site outages have been caused by ongoing DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks that started on Saturday. [...] | Continue reading
Microsoft is now rolling out the Copilot AI assistant to eligible non-managed systems enrolled in the Windows Insider program and running Windows 10 22H2 Home and Pro editions. [...] | Continue reading
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) confirms they suffered a cyberattack after 'SiegedSec' hacktivists leaked stolen human resources data online. [...] | Continue reading
The Lumma information-stealer malware (aka 'LummaC2') is promoting a new feature that allegedly allows cybercriminals to restore expired Google cookies, which can be used to hijack Google accounts. [...] | Continue reading
Microsoft has unveiled a new bug bounty program aimed at the Microsoft Defender security platform, with rewards between $500 and $20,000. [...] | Continue reading
AutoZone is warning tens of thousands of its customers that it suffered a data breach as part of the Clop MOVEit file transfer attacks. [...] | Continue reading
Today, CISA ordered U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against an actively exploited vulnerability that lets attackers gain root privileges on many major Linux distributions. [...] | Continue reading
Citrix reminded admins today that they must take additional measures after patching their NetScaler appliances against the CVE-2023-4966 'Citrix Bleed' vulnerability to secure vulnerable devices against attacks. [...] | Continue reading
A sophisticated phishing campaign pushing the DarkGate malware infections has recently added the PikaBot malware into the mix, making it the most advanced phishing campaign since the Qakbot operation was dismantled. [...] | Continue reading
The Criminal IP Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine has integrated its IP address and URL scans into VirusTotal. Learn more from Criminal IP about how this integration can help you. [...] | Continue reading
Malwarebytes' is running a Black Friday 2023 deal now through Cyber Monday, offering a 50% discount to the Malwarebytes Premium + Privacy VPN bundle until November 30th. [...] | Continue reading
The Tor Project has explained its recent decision to remove multiple network relays that represented a threat to the safety and security of all Tor network users. [...] | Continue reading
A recently discovered worm that researchers call LittleDrifter has been spreading over USB drives infecting systems in multiple countries as part of a campaign from the Gamaredon state-sponsored espionage group. [...] | Continue reading
Microsoft is rolling out fixes for known Microsoft 365 issues causing 'Something Went Wrong [1001]' sign-in errors and rendering desktop applications unusable for many customers. [...] | Continue reading
A new Phobos ransomware variant frames the popular VX-Underground malware-sharing collective, indicating the group is behind attacks using the encryptor. [...] | Continue reading
The former chief operating officer of a cybersecurity company has pleaded guilty to hacking two hospitals, part of the Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC), in June 2021 to boost his company's business. [...] | Continue reading
The Canadian government says two of its contractors have been hacked, exposing sensitive information belonging to an undisclosed number of government employees. [...] | Continue reading
The Kinsing malware operator is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-46604 critical vulnerability in the Apache ActiveMQ open-source message broker to compromise Linux systems. [...] | Continue reading
The Rhysida ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the British Library in October, which has caused a major ongoing IT outage. [...] | Continue reading
Learn more from Specops Software about the benefits of self-service password resets and ways to accomplish this with on-premises Active Directory. [...] | Continue reading
The Lumma information-stealing malware is now using an interesting tactic to evade detection by security software - the measuring of mouse movements using trigonometry to determine if the malware is running on a real machine or an antivirus sandbox. [...] | Continue reading
After Sandworm and APT28 (known as Fancy Bear), another state-sponsored Russian hacker group, APT29, is leveraging the CVE-2023-38831 vulnerability in WinRAR for cyberattacks. [...] | Continue reading
A team of academic researchers from universities in California and Massachusetts demonstrated that it's possible under certain conditions for passive network attackers to retrieve secret RSA keys from naturally occurring errors leading to failed SSH (secure shell) connection atte … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced a new policy that allows admins to control how optional updates are deployed on Windows 10 enterprise endpoints on their networks. [...] | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revealed new rules to shield consumers from criminals who hijack their phone numbers in SIM swapping attacks and port-out fraud. [...] | Continue reading
A proof-of-concept exploit was publicly released for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the CrushFTP enterprise suite, allowing unauthenticated attackers to access files on the server, execute code, and obtain plain-text passwords. [...] | Continue reading