Surge in Sextortion Attacks Cost Targeted Users $8 This Year
The FBI IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) raised an alert about a great surge in sextortion complaints since January 2021,...
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Microsoft Links SolarWinds Serv-U SSH 0-Day Attack to a Chinese Hacking Group
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center has published technical facts regarding a now-patched, 0-day remote code execution exploit affecting SolarWinds Serv-U managed...
Babuk Ransomware Full Source Code Leaked On A Russia-Speaking Hacking Forum
The complete source code for the Babuk ransomware has been leaked by a threat actor on a Russian-speaking hacking forum,...
Cryptocurrency Exchange Bilaxy Under Attack, Hacker Stole ERC20 Wallet Tokens
On Sunday 29th of August, the Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Bilaxy was the subject of a breach that infiltrated a...
Beaumont Health: The Latest Victim of Accellion Breach
Beaumont Health, headquartered in Michigan, is the latest victim of the Accellion data breach, which began in December 2020 and...
WhatsApp fined €225M over GDPR issues
The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined WhatsApp €225 million over data sharing transparency for European Union users’ data with Facebook. The...
Security Affairs newsletter Round 330
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free...
Major IPS in New Zealand hit by massive DDoS, Internet outages reported
A massive DDoS hit New Zealand ‘s third-largest internet operator isolating parts of the country from the Internet. A massive...
SEC warns of investment scams related to Hurricane Ida
The US Securities and Exchange Commission warns investors of potential investment scams that leverages Hurricane Ida as a bait. The US Securities and...
Critical Flaws in NPM Package Patched by Node.js Developers
Node.js maintainers have launched a major update to the npm package "tar" (aka node-tar) that resolves five critical safety flaws,...
Vulnerabilities Found In Moxa Railway Devices, Can Cause Disruption
Railway and other wireless communication devices developed by Moxa have been affected by 6p vulnerabilities. Moxa is a Taiwan based...
WordPress Sites Affected by Bugs in Gutenberg Template Library and Redux Framework
The Gutenberg Template Library & Redux Framework plugin for WordPress, which is deployed on over 1 million websites, has two...
QakBot (QBot) Campaign: A thorough Analysis
Trojan-Banker QakBot, also known by the names - QBot, QuackBot, and Pinkslipbot, is a modular information stealer that has been...
Autodesk Disclosed it was Targeted in SolarWinds Hack
Autodesk has disclosed that it was also targeted by the Russian state hackers behind the large-scale SolarWinds Orion supply-chain assault,...
Apple will delay the rollout of new child pornography protection tools
Apple will delay the introduction of its new child pornography protection tools due to a heated debate raised by privacy...
FIN7 group leverages Windows 11 Alpha-Themed docs to drop Javascript payloads
FIN7 cybercrime gang used weaponized Windows 11 Alpha-themed Word documents to drop malicious payloads, including a JavaScript backdoor. Anomali Threat...
Source code for the Babuk is available on a hacking forum
The complete source code for the Babuk ransomware is available for sale on a Russian-speaking hacking forum. A threat actor...
USCYBERCOM and CISA warn organizations to fix CVE-2021-26084 Confluence flaw
USCYBERCOM is urging organizations to patch a critical CVE-2021-26084 flaw in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center, ahead of the...
Conti ransomware gang targets Microsoft Exchange servers with ProxyShell exploits
The Conti ransomware operators are targeting Microsoft Exchange servers leveraging recently disclosed ProxyShell vulnerability exploits. The Conti ransomware gang is...
FBI warns of ransomware threat to food and agriculture
The FBI has issued a Private Industry Notification (PIN) about cybercriminal actors targeting the food and agriculture sector with ransomware...
Watch what you send on anonymous SMS websites
It’s a good idea to try and keep certain things private. For example, people have been using anonymous email services...
UK Based Firms, Voip Unlimited, And Voipfone Under DDoS Attack
Users of Voipfone's UK business broadband and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) services have reported to ISPreview.co.uk that the supplier has been facing...
Vulnerabilities in bank chatbots allow hackers to steal money
Awillix specialists discovered vulnerabilities in bank chatbots that could allow fraudsters to transfer money without the knowledge of customers. Positive...
BrakTooth Vulnerability Puts Bluetooth Users At Risk, Flaws Left Unpatched
White Hat hackers revealed a set of vulnerabilities named as BrakTooth, which affects commercial bluetooth gadgets, raising suspicions about vendor's...
