Illegal Betting Ring Used Satellite Tech to Get Scoop on Results
Police are celebrating after busting a suspected illegal betting and match-fixing ring which used advanced technology to find out the...
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Fraudsters Steal Over $1m in Three Weeks Through ‘Pig Butchering’ Crypto Scam
Malicious actors have stolen more than $1m in a ‘pig butchering’ cryptocurrency scam in just three months, researchers from Sophos...
US-CERT Vulnerability Summary for the Week of September 11, 2023
High VulnerabilitiesPrimary Vendor -- ProductDescriptionPublishedCVSS ScoreSource & Patch Infowibu -- codemeter_runtime A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Wibu CodeMeter Runtime...
The Week in Ransomware – September 15th 2023 – Russian Roulette
This week’s big news is the extortion attacks on the Caesars and MGM Las Vegas casino chains, with one having...
ORBCOMM ransomware attack causes trucking fleet management outage
9/15/23 update added below. Trucking and fleet management solutions provider ORBCOMM has confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind recent service...
Retool blames breach on Google Authenticator MFA cloud sync feature
Software company Retool says the accounts of 27 cloud customers were compromised following a targeted and multi-stage social engineering attack....
Google extends security update support for Chromebooks to 10 years
Google has announced the Auto Update Expiration (AUE) date will be extended from 5 years to 10 for all Chromebooks, guaranteeing...
Cloud Vulnerabilities Surge 200% in a Year
IBM tracked 632 new cloud-related vulnerabilities (CVEs) between June 2022 and June 2023, a 194% increase from the previous year,...
Wake-Up Call as 3AM Ransomware Variant Is Discovered
Security researchers have discovered a new ransomware variant which was deployed after LockBit was blocked on a victim organization’s network.Symantec’s...
Elon Musk in Hot Water With FTC Over Twitter Privacy Issues
Elon Musk is in the crosshairs of US federal regulators over his handling of privacy and security issues since he...
Lazarus Group Blamed For $53m Heist at CoinEx
An infamous threat group connected to the North Korean state has been blamed for a major attack on cryptocurrency exchange...
Manchester Police Officers’ Data Breached in Third-Party Attack
A ransomware attack on a third-party supplier to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has exposed personal data of more UK police...
Caesars Entertainment Reveals Major Ransomware Breach
Yet another Nevadan casino and hotel chain giant has been compromised by ransomware threat actors, after Caesars Entertainment reported a...
Cloud to Blame for Almost all Security Vulnerabilities
Four out of five (80.3%) security vulnerabilities observed in organizations across all sectors come from a cloud environment, Palo Alto...
China’s Malicious Cyber Activity Informing War Preparations, Pentagon Says
China’s malicious cyber activity informs its preparations for a potential military conflict with the US, a new report from the...
Pirated Software Likely Cause of Airbus Breach
A major data breach at Airbus revealed earlier this week stemmed from a RedLine info-stealer likely hidden in a pirated...
Iranian Threat Group Hits Thousands With Password Spray Campaign
An Iranian state-backed APT group carried out a “wave” of cyber-espionage attacks against thousands of global targets over a six-month...
US-CERT Vulnerability Summary for the Week of September 4, 2023
High VulnerabilitiesPrimary Vendor -- ProductDescriptionPublishedCVSS ScoreSource & Patch Infocanonical_ltd. -- snapd_for_linuxUsing the TIOCLINUX ioctl request, a malicious snap could inject...
Iranian Nation-State Actors Employ Password Spray Attacks Targeting Multiple Sectors
Iranian nation-state actors have been conducting password spray attacks against thousands of organizations globally between February and July 2023, new...
NodeStealer Malware Now Targets Facebook Business Accounts on Multiple Browsers
An ongoing campaign is targeting Facebook Business accounts with bogus messages to harvest victims' credentials using a variant of the...
The Interdependence between Automated Threat Intelligence Collection and Humans
The volume of cybersecurity vulnerabilities is rising, with close to 30% more vulnerabilities found in 2022 vs. 2018. Costs are...
Google Agrees to $93 Million Settlement in California’s Location-Privacy Lawsuit
Google has agreed to pay $93 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. state of California over allegations...
Cybercriminals Combine Phishing and EV Certificates to Deliver Ransomware Payloads
The threat actors behind RedLine and Vidar information stealers have been observed pivoting to ransomware through phishing campaigns that spread...
DDoS 2.0: IoT Sparks New DDoS Alert
The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming efficiency in various sectors like healthcare and logistics but has also introduced new...
