How DDoS attacks are taking down even the largest tech companies
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks certainly come to mind when considering cyberattacks that can cause widespread outages and service...
Month: November 2023
New Samsung data breach impacts UK store customers
Samsung Electronics is notifying some of its customers of a data breach that exposed their personal information to an unauthorized...
Toyota confirms breach after Medusa ransomware threatens to leak data
Toyota Financial Services (TFS) has confirmed that it detected unauthorized access on some of its systems in Europe and Africa...
FBI shares tactics of notorious Scattered Spider hacker collective
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an advisory about the evasive threat actor...
MySQL servers targeted by ‘Ddostf’ DDoS-as-a-Service botnet
MySQL servers are being targeted by the 'Ddostf' malware botnet to enslave them for a DDoS-as-a-Service platform whose firepower is...
Long Beach, California turns off IT systems after cyberattack
The Californian City of Long Beach is warning that they suffered a cyberattack on Tuesday that has led them to...
Fortinet warns of critical command injection bug in FortiSIEM
Fortinet is alerting customers of a critical OS command injection vulnerability in FortiSIEM report server that could be exploited by...
IBM WebSphere Products Multiple Vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in IBM WebSphere Products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to trigger denial of...
BlackCat Ransomware Group Reports Victim to SEC
A prolific ransomware group appears to have reported one of its victims to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),...
Half of Ransomware Groups Operating in 2023 Are New
Almost half (29) of the 60 ransomware groups tracked by WithSecure in 2023 began operations this year, the security vendor...
European Police Take Down $9m Vishing Gang
Police in Ukraine and Czechia claim to have disrupted a multimillion-dollar fraud gang who called victims impersonating bank staff, using...
CSA Launches First Zero Trust Certification
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has introduced the Certificate of Competence in Zero Trust (CCZT), the industry’s inaugural authoritative zero...
Cyber-Criminals Exploit Gaza Crisis With Fake Charity
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a charity attack exploiting the ongoing events in Gaza and Israel. Cyber-criminals targeted 212 individuals across...
Black Friday: Malwarebytes Warns of Credit Card Skimming Surge
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday around the corner, anti-malware provider Malwarebytes has warned about the rise of credit card...
Russian Hacking Group Sandworm Linked to Unprecedented Attack on Danish Critical Infrastructure
Notorious Russian nation-state threat actor Sandworm has been linked to the largest ever cyber-attack targeting critical infrastructure in Denmark.The incident...
US-CERT Vulnerability Summary for the Week of November 6, 2023
High VulnerabilitiesPrimary Vendor -- ProductDescriptionPublishedCVSS ScoreSource & Patch Info1e -- platformThe 1E-Exchange-URLResponseTime instruction that is part of the Network product...
Padre – Blazing Fast, Advanced Padding Oracle Exploit
padre is an advanced exploiter for Padding Oracle attacks against CBC mode encryption Features: blazing fast, concurrent implementation decryption of...
Three Ways Varonis Helps You Fight Insider Threats
What do basketball teams, government agencies, and car manufacturers have in common? Each one has been breached, having confidential, proprietary,...
The Importance of Continuous Security Monitoring for a Robust Cybersecurity Strategy
In 2023, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million. Beyond the immediate financial loss, there are...
New PoC Exploit for Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Could Let Attackers Fly Under the Radar
Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new technique that exploits a critical security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to achieve arbitrary code...
U.S. Takes Down IPStorm Botnet, Russian-Moldovan Mastermind Pleads Guilty
The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the takedown of the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure, as the Russian...
Russian Hackers Linked to ‘Largest Ever Cyber Attack’ on Danish Critical Infrastructure
Russian threat actors have been possibly linked to what's been described as the "largest cyber attack against Danish critical infrastructure,"...
Hackers Could Exploit Google Workspace and Cloud Platform for Ransomware Attacks
A set of novel attack methods has been demonstrated against Google Workspace and the Google Cloud Platform that could be...
How to Automate the Hardest Parts of Employee Offboarding
According to recent research on employee offboarding, 70% of IT professionals say they've experienced the negative effects of incomplete IT...
