Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Blockchain An ongoing campaign is targeting npm developers with hundreds of typosquat versions of their legitimate counterparts in an attempt to trick them into running cross-platform malware. The attack is…
Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Cybercrime Canadian law enforcement authorities have arrested an individual who is suspected to have conducted a series of hacks stemming from the breach of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake…
Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Vulnerability Google has warned that a security flaw impacting its Android operating system has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-43093, has been described…
Nov 04, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cyber Threat Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed six security flaws in the Ollama artificial intelligence (AI) framework that could be exploited by a malicious actor to perform various actions, including denial-of-service,…
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Nov 04, 2024Mohit KumarDDoS Attack / Cybercrime 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)…
Nov 04, 2024The Hacker NewsWeekly Recap / Cybersecurity 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…
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 their gain. Imperva,…
Nov 04, 2024Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability 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…
Nov 04, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Financial Fraud 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…
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 Israel’s participation…