?Jan 16, 2024?NewsroomCryptocurrency / Windows Security Threat actors have been observed leveraging a now-patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows to deploy an open-source information stealer called Phemedrone Stealer. “Phemedrone targets web browsers and data from…
Benj Edwards | Getty Images Imagine downloading an open source AI language model, and all seems good at first, but it later turns malicious. On Friday, Anthropic—the maker of ChatGPT competitor Claude—released a research paper…
Enlarge / The Swarovski Optik Visio binoculars, with an excerpt of a 2014 xkcd comic strip called “Tasks” in the corner. xckd / Swarovski Last week, Austria-based Swarovski Optik introduced the AX Visio 10×32 binoculars,…
?Jan 15, 2024?NewsroomVulnerability / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a now-patched security flaw in the Opera web browser for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS that could be exploited to execute any file on the…
The ransomware industry surged in 2023 as it saw an alarming 55.5% increase in victims worldwide, reaching a staggering 4,368 cases. Figure 1: Year over year victims per quarter The rollercoaster ride from explosive growth…
?Jan 15, 2024?NewsroomOperational Technology / Network Security Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Bosch BCC100 thermostats and Rexroth NXA015S-36V-B smart nutrunners that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected…
?Jan 15, 2024?NewsroomWebsite Security / Vulnerability Thousands of WordPress sites using a vulnerable version of the Popup Builder plugin have been compromised with a malware called Balada Injector. First documented by Doctor Web in January…
?Jan 15, 2024?NewsroomServer Security / Cyber Attack The environmental services industry witnessed an “unprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This marks a 61,839% increase in…
?Jan 14, 2024?NewsroomCyber Attack / Vulnerability The cyber attacks targeting the energy sector in Denmark last year may not have had the involvement of the Russia-linked Sandworm hacking group, new findings from Forescout show. The…
?Jan 13, 2024?NewsroomVulnerability / Network Security Juniper Networks has released updates to fix a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its SRX Series firewalls and EX Series switches. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-21591, is…