Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, Exploits & Government Alerts
?Feb 05, 2024?NewsroomCryptocurrency / Financial Fraud A 42-year-old Belarusian and Cypriot national with alleged connections to the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e is facing charges related to money laundering and operating an unlicensed money services business.…
?Feb 05, 2024?NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cyber Extortion The threat actor known as Patchwork likely used romance scam lures to trap victims in Pakistan and India, and infect their Android devices with a remote access trojan…
?Feb 05, 2024?The Hacker NewsData Protection / Threat Intelligence A significant challenge within cyber security at present is that there are a lot of risk management platforms available in the market, but only some deal…
Companies are engaged in a seemingly endless cat-and-mouse game when it comes to cybersecurity and cyber threats. As organizations put up one defensive block after another, malicious actors kick their game up a notch to…
?Feb 05, 2024?NewsroomSpyware / Surveillance The iPhones belonging to nearly three dozen journalists, activists, human rights lawyers, and civil society members in Jordan have been targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to joint findings…
?Feb 05, 2024?NewsroomMalware / Financial Security The threat actors behind the Mispadu banking Trojan have become the latest to exploit a now-patched Windows SmartScreen security bypass flaw to compromise users in Mexico. The attacks entail…
?Feb 03, 2024?NewsroomIntelligence Agency / Cyber Security The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against six officials associated with the Iranian intelligence agency for attacking critical infrastructure entities in the…
?Feb 03, 2024?NewsroomVulnerability / Social Media The decentralized social network Mastodon has disclosed a critical security flaw that enables malicious actors to impersonate and take over any account. “Due to insufficient origin validation in all…
?Feb 03, 2024?NewsroomCyber Attack / Software Security Remote desktop software maker AnyDesk disclosed on Friday that it suffered a cyber attack that led to a compromise of its production systems. The German company said the…
Russian state-sponsored actors have staged NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hash relay attacks through various methods from April 2022 to November 2023, targeting high-value targets worldwide. The attacks, attributed to an “aggressive” hacking crew called…