Threat Actors are Targeting Users Via New Phishing Campaign
Threat actors are using Morse code – ‘the novel obfuscation technique’ for targeted phishing campaigns. This technique is known for...
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Almost 80% Of Indians Consider Moving To Alternatives After “Take It or Leave It Policy” WhatsApp
WhatsApp, the most popular messaging platform is suffering from the biggest storm with its users because of its new...
Medical Records of Two US Based Hospitals Leaked on Dark Web
Two major US hospitals, the Leon Medical Centers in Miami, and Nocona General Hospital in Texas have recently been hit...
Patch Tuesday – February 2021
The second Patch Tuesday of 2021 is relatively light on the vulnerability count, with 64 CVEs being addressed across the...
Critical flaws in NextGen Gallery WordPress plugin still impact over 500K installs
The development team behind the NextGen Gallery plugin has addressed two severe CSRF vulnerabilities that could have allowed site takeover....
Microsoft to notify Office 365 users of nation-state attacks
Microsoft implements alerts for ‘nation-state activity’ in the Defender for Office 365 dashboard, to allow organizations to quickly respond. Since...
Hackers attempted to poison the water supply of a US city
Pinellas Sheriff revealed that attackers tried to raise levels of sodium hydroxide, by a factor of more than 100, in...
Google launches Open Source Vulnerabilities (OSV) database
Google announced the launch of OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities), a vulnerability database and triage infrastructure for open source projects. Google...
Android devices caught in Matryosh botnet
Researchers at Netlab have discovered a new botnet that re-uses the Mirai framework to pull vulnerable Android devices into DDoS...
How NOT to fail at PDF redaction
The heated spat between Europe and AstraZeneca over a contract has segued into an unexpected blunder that left many of...
A week in security (February 1 – February 7)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we dug into a load of security events. We first peered into how Fonix ransomware...
Domestic Kitten – An Iranian Surveillance Operation
Check Point researchers as of late revealed the full degree of Domestic Kitten's broad surveillance operation against Iranian residents that...
Experts Confirm Shady Ransomware Business, Block-chain Transactions on Rise
Chainalysis, a blockchain investment firm, recently published a report that confirms that ransomware operating cybercrime groups don't always work in...
Nespresso Prepaid Vending Machines Hacked by a Belgian Researcher for Free Coffee
Polle Vanhoof, a Belgian cybersecurity researcher discovered there a flaw in the older Nespresso prepaid coffee machine smart cards and...
Plex Media Servers Actively Abused To Amplify DDoS Attacks
Research workers with NetScout's Atlas Security Engineering and Response Team have warned against the threat actors campaign, they said that...
Hackers Used Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability To Target Security Researchers
In recent times, during the attacks against the security and vulnerability researchers in North Korea, an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability...
Domestic Kitten has been conducting surveillance targeting over 1,000 individuals
Iran-linked APT group Domestic Kitten, also tracked as APT-C-50, has been conducting widespread surveillance targeting over 1,000 individuals. Domestic Kitten,...
Novel phishing technique uses Morse code to compose malicious URLs
Cybercriminals devised a new phishing technique that leverages the Morse code to hide malicious URLs and bypass defense. Experts spotted...
Victims of Ziggy ransomware can recover their files for free
The Ziggy ransomware gang has shut down its operations and released the decryption keys fearing the ongoing investigation of law enforcement....
COMB breach: 3.2B email and password pairs leaked online
The Largest compilation of emails and passwords (COMB), more than 3.2 billion login credentials, has been leaked on a popular...
Hacking Nespresso machines to have unlimited funds to purchase coffee
Some commercial Nespresso machines that are used in Europe could be hacked to add unlimited funds to purchase coffee. Some...
Operation LadyBird: International Law Enforcement Agencies Crackdown Emotet
European and US law agencies earlier this week directed a brilliant crackdown on Emotet. Emotet is a botnet of corrupted...
Webdev Tutorials Site ‘SitePoint’ has Disclosed a Data Breach
The website Sitepoint, which provides access to online study and information on web development content tutorials and books, reported...
SolarWinds CEO: “SolarWinds Orion Development Program was Exploited by the Hackers”
Sudhakar Ramakrishna, CEO of SolarWinds confirmed that ‘suspicious activity’ was spotted in its Office 365 environment which permitted threat actors...
