The U.S. government has secured the extradition of an alleged Russian hacker who allegedly served as a key administrator of the prolific Phobos ransomware operation. Prosecutors said Monday that Evgenii Ptitsyn, 42, was recently extradited…
The malware known as Ngioweb has been used to fuel a notorious residential proxy service called NSOCKS, as well as by other services such as VN5Socks and Shopsocks5, new findings from Lumen Technologies reveal. “At…
Nov 19, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Piracy Malicious actors are exploiting misconfigured JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks to conduct stream ripping and enable sports piracy using live streaming capture tools. The attacks involve the hijack of…
Microsoft on Tuesday revealed new custom chips aimed at powering workloads on its Azure cloud and bolstering security, particularly a new hardware accelerator that can manage data processing, networking, and storage-related tasks. The Azure Boost…
In the aftermath of the devastating CrowdStrike outage this July, Microsoft vowed to do better even though it insisted that the event was an aberration. Evidently unwilling to take chances (or risk further hits to…
View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Equipment: MELSEC iQ-F Series Vulnerability: Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of…
WASHINGTON – Today the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a new Venue Guide for Security Considerations to help venue operators enhance safety, protect assets, and create secure environments through effective security measures and…
Nov 19, 2024The Hacker NewsInsider Threat / Credential Security Privileged accounts are well-known gateways for potential security threats. However, many organizations focus solely on managing privileged access—rather than securing the accounts and users entrusted with…
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Linux variant of a relatively new ransomware strain called Helldown, suggesting that the threat actors are broadening their attack focus. “Helldown deploys Windows ransomware derived from the LockBit…
U.S. telecoms giant T-Mobile has confirmed that it was also among the companies that were targeted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to valuable information. The adversaries, tracked as Salt Typhoon, breached the company…