PyPI and GitLab Witness Spam Attacks
The GitLab, a source code hosting website, and the Python Package Index (PyPI) portal both are flooded with advertisements for...
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Tokyo Gas Discloses Data Breach Impacting Anime-style Dating Simulation Game
Recently a cyber attack has been reported by Tokyo Gas, the game’s developer and also known as a Japanese...
SOAR Tools: What to Look for When Investing in Security Automation Tech
Security orchestration and automation (SOAR) refers to a collection of software solutions and tools that organizations can leverage to streamline...
CD Projekt Red game maker discloses ransomware attack
The gaming firm CD Projekt Red, which developed popular games like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher, has disclosed a ransomware...
Adobe fixes a buffer overflow issue in Reader which is exploited in the wild
Adobe released security patches for 50 flaws affecting six products, including a zero-day flaw in Reader that has been exploited in...
Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday fixes 56 bugs, including an actively exploited Windows zero-day
Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday addresses 56 vulnerabilities, including a flaw that is known to be actively exploited in the...
Ukraine’s police arrested the author of the U-Admin phishing kit
An international operation conducted by Ukraine’s police, along with the US and Australia peers, shut down the world’s largest phishing...
Hackers try to poison Florida City’s drinking water
The FBI, the Secret Service, and the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office are currently investigating an attempted poisoning of a city...
Cyberpunk 2077 developer hit by ransomware
CD PROJEKT RED, the game developer behind Cyberpunk 2077, announced earlier on Twitter that it has fallen victim to a...
Russia will adopt the state OpenRAN standards for the development of 5G
Already in the spring in Russia, within the framework of import substitution, national standards for telecommunication equipment Open Radio Access...
Discord Cryptoscam: Scammers Lure Players to Fake Cryptocurrency Exchange Site
Experts at Kaspersky have issued a warning alarming that hackers are attacking Discord users, with a scam that focuses on...
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...
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...
