French government recommends against using foreign chat apps
Prime Minister of France Élisabeth Borne signed a circular last week requesting all government employees to uninstall foreign communication apps such...
cybersecurity
The Week in Ransomware – December 1st 2023 – Police hits affiliates
An international law enforcement operation claims to have dismantled a ransomware affiliate operation in Ukraine, which was responsible for attacks...
TrickBot malware dev pleads guilty, faces 35 years in prison
On Thursday, a Russian national pleaded guilty to charges related to his involvement in developing and deploying the Trickbot malware,...
Cactus ransomware exploiting Qlik Sense flaws to breach networks
Cactus ransomware has been exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the Qlik Sense data analytics solution to get initial access on corporate networks....
Staples confirms cyberattack behind service outages, delivery issues
Image: Stan Zemanek (CC BY-SA 3.0) American office supply retailer Staples took down some of its systems earlier this week after...
FjordPhantom Android malware uses virtualization to evade detection
A new Android malware named FjordPhantom has been discovered using virtualization to run malicious code in a container and evade...
Zyxel warns of multiple critical vulnerabilities in NAS devices
Zyxel has addressed multiple security issues, including three critical ones that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute operating system commands on...
WhatsApp’s new Secret Code feature hides your locked chats
WhatsApp has introduced a new Secret Code feature that allows users to hide their locked chats by setting a custom...
LogoFAIL bugs in UEFI code allow planting bootkits via images
Multiple security vulnerabilities collectively named LogoFAIL affect image-parsing components in the UEFI code from various vendors. Researchers warn that they...
US govt sanctions North Korea’s Kimsuky hacking group
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned the North Korean-backed Kimsuky hacking group for stealing intelligence...
Get 20% off Emsisoft’s Enterprise Security EDR solution for the holidays
Emsisoft is having a holiday deal where you can get 20% off 1-year licenses of the Emsisoft Enterprise Security EDR solution through...
Capital Health Hospitals hit by cyberattack causing IT outages
Image: Famartin (CC BY-SA 4.0) Capital Health hospitals and physician offices across New Jersey are experiencing IT outages after a...
Manufacturing Top Targeted Industry in Record-Breaking Cyber Extortion Surge
The year 2023 has been a record-breaking year for cyber extortion, according to Orange Cyberdefense (OCD).The cybersecurity branch of the...
Dollar Tree hit by third-party data breach impacting 2 million people
Discount store chain Dollar Tree was impacted by a third-party data breach affecting 1,977,486 people after the hack of service...
DeleFriend Weakness Puts Google Workspace Security at Risk
Security researchers have uncovered a new design flaw in the Google Workspace Domain-Wide Delegation feature. Named “DeleFriend” by Hunters’ Team Axon, the vulnerability could...
How Continuous Pen Testing Protects Web Apps from Emerging Threats
As the demand for anytime, anywhere access to services and information increases, our dependency on web-based applications deepens. From business...
Okta: October data breach affects all customer support system users
Okta's investigation into the breach of its Help Center environment last month revealed that the hackers obtained data belonging to...
Black Basta ransomware made over $100 million from extortion
Russia-linked ransomware gang Black Basta has raked in at least $100 million in ransom payments from more than 90 victims...
Japanese Space Agency JAXA hacked in summer cyberattack
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was hacked in a cyberattack over the summer, which may have put sensitive space-related...
Hackers breach US water facility via exposed Unitronics PLCs
CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) is warning that threat actors breached a U.S. water facility by hacking into Unitronics...
US seizes Sinbad crypto mixer used by North Korean Lazarus hackers
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the Sinbad cryptocurrency mixing service for its use as a money-laundering tool...
SIM swapper gets 8 years in prison for account hacks, crypto theft
Amir Hossein Golshan, 25, was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Los Angeles District Court and ordered to...
Slovenia’s largest power provider HSE hit by ransomware attack
Slovenian power company Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) has suffered a ransomware attack that compromised its systems and encrypted files, yet...
Leveraging Wazuh to combat insider threats
Insider threat refers to the risk posed by individuals with authorized access to an organization's systems, networks, or sensitive information....
