Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones
Czech cybersecurity company Avast confirmed that its antivirus SDK has been flagging a Google Android app as malware on Huawei,...
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Dozens of countries will pledge to stop paying ransomware gangs
An alliance of 40 countries will sign a pledge during the third annual International Counter-Ransomware Initiative summit in Washington, D.C.,...
Flipper Zero Bluetooth spam attacks ported to new Android app
Recent Flipper Zero Bluetooth spam attacks have now been ported to an Android app, allowing a much larger number of...
British Library knocked offline by weekend cyberattack
The British Library has been hit by a major IT outage affecting its website and many of its services following...
Atlassian warns of critical Confluence flaw leading to data loss
Australian software company Atlassian warned admins to immediately patch Internet-exposed Confluence instances against a critical security flaw that could lead...
New BiBi-Linux wiper malware targets Israeli orgs in destructive attacks
A new malware wiper known as BiBi-Linux is being used to destroy data in attacks targeting Linux systems belonging to...
Toronto Public Library services down following weekend cyberattack
The Toronto Public Library (TPL) is warning that many of its online services are offline after suffering a cyberattack over the...
Huawei, Vivo phones tag Google app as TrojanSMS-PA malware
Huawei, Honor, and Vivo smartphones and tablets are displaying strange 'Security threat' alerts urging the deletion of the Google app,...
LastPass breach linked to theft of $4.4 million in crypto
Hackers have stolen $4.4 million in cryptocurrency on October 25th using private keys and passphrases stored in stolen LastPass databases,...
SEC sues SolarWinds for misleading investors before 2020 hack
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today charged SolarWinds with defrauding investors by allegedly concealing cybersecurity defense issues before...
FTC orders non-bank financial firms to report breaches in 30 days
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has amended the Safeguards Rules, mandating that all non-banking financial institutions report data breach...
Exploit released for critical Cisco IOS XE flaw, many hosts still hacked
Public exploit code is now available for the critical Cisco IOS XE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20198 that was leveraged as...
RCE exploit for Wyze Cam v3 publicly released, patch now
A security researcher has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for Wyze Cam v3 devices that opens a reverse shell and...
New Hunters International ransomware possible rebrand of Hive
A new ransomware-as-a-service brand named Hunters International has emerged using code used by the Hive ransomware operation, leading to the...
Pirate IPTV network in Austria dismantled and $1.74 million seized
The Austrian police have arrested 20 people across the country linked to an illegal IPTV network that, between 2016 and...
Hackers email stolen student data to parents of Nevada school district
Image: CCSD The Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada is dealing with a potentially massive data breach, as hackers...
HackerOne paid ethical hackers over $300 million in bug bounties
HackerOne has announced that its bug bounty programs have awarded over $300 million in rewards to ethical hackers and vulnerability...
Lazarus hackers breached dev repeatedly to deploy SIGNBT malware
The North Korean Lazarus hacking group repeatedly compromised a software vendor using flaws in vulnerable software despite multiple patches and warnings...
F5 fixes BIG-IP auth bypass allowing remote code execution attacks
A critical vulnerability in the F5 BIG-IP configuration utility, tracked as CVE-2023-46747, allows an attacker with remote access to the...
The Week in Ransomware – October 27th 2023 – Breaking Records
Ransomware attacks are increasing significantly, with reports indicating that last month was a record month for ransomware attacks in 2023....
Hackers earn over $1 million for 58 zero-days at Pwn2Own Toronto
The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition has ended with security researchers earning $1,038,500 for 58 zero-day exploits (and multiple bug...
#ISC2Congress: Generative AI A Boon for Organizations Despite the Risks, Experts Say
Generative AI is too beneficial to abandon despite the threats it poses to organizations, according to experts speaking at the...
Cloudflare sees surge in hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS attacks
Cloudflare says the number of hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks recorded in the third quarter of 2023...
New iLeakage attack steals emails, passwords from Apple Safari
Academic researchers created a new speculative side-channel attack they named iLeakage that works on all recent Apple devices and can...
