IT worker jailed for impersonating ransomware gang to extort employer
28-year-old Ashley Liles, a former IT employee, has been sentenced to over three years in prison for attempting to blackmail...
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Critical ColdFusion flaws exploited in attacks to drop webshells
Update 7/17/23: The article was updated due to a mistaken warning added by Adobe to its email notification. However, a...
US on Track For Record Number of Data Breaches
This year could be another record breaker for data compromise following 951 publicly reported incidents in the second quarter, a...
New CVSS Version Unveiled Amid Rising Cyber Threats
A new version of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS 4.0) has been unveiled publicly by the Forum of Incident...
Thousands of images on Docker Hub leak auth secrets, private keys
Researchers at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany published a study revealing that tens of thousands of container images hosted...
Gamaredon hackers start stealing data 30 minutes after a breach
Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) is warning that the Gamaredon hacking operates in rapid attacks, stealing data from breached...
Shutterfly says Clop ransomware attack did not impact customer data
Shutterfly, an online retail and photography manufacturing platform, is among the latest victims hit by Clop ransomware. Over the last few months,...
Cyberattacks through Browser Extensions – the Importance of MFA
There are many avenues of attack that a threat actor can take. One that has been increasing in recent years...
AVrecon malware infects 70,000 Linux routers to build botnet
Since at least May 2021, stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon was used to infect over 70,000 Linux-based small office/home office...
Criminal IP and Tines Forge Powerful Tech Alliance
In the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, strategic technical partnerships are crucial for staying ahead of emerging threats. Criminal IP, a...
Colorado State University says data breach impacts students, staff
Colorado State University (CSU) has confirmed that the Clop ransomware operation stole sensitive personal information of current and former students...
Rockwell warns of new APT RCE exploit targeting critical infrastructure
Rockwell Automation says a new remote code execution (RCE) exploit linked to an unnamed Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group could...
WordPress AIOS plugin used by 1M sites logged plaintext passwords
The All-In-One Security (AIOS) WordPress security plugin, used by over a million WordPress sites, was found to be logging plaintext...
BreachForums owner Pompompurin pleads guilty to hacking charges
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, the owner of the notorious BreachForums (aka Breached) hacking forum, has pleaded guilty to hacking...
Genesis Market infrastructure and inventory sold on hacker forum
Image: Bing Create The administrators of the Genesis Market for stolen credentials announced on a hacker forum that they sold...
USB drive malware attacks spiking again in first half of 2023
What's old is new again, with researchers seeing a threefold increase in malware distributed through USB drives in the first...
Fake Linux vulnerability exploit drops data-stealing malware
​Cybersecurity researchers and threat actors are targeted by a fake proof of concept (PoC) CVE-2023-35829 exploit that installs a Linux...
Cisco SD-WAN vManage impacted by unauthenticated REST API access
The Cisco SD-WAN vManage management software is impacted by a flaw that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain read...
Source code for BlackLotus Windows UEFI malware leaked on GitHub
The source code for the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit has leaked online, allowing greater insight into a malware that has caused...
Zimbra urges admins to manually fix zero-day exploited in attacks
Zimbra urged admins today to manually fix a zero-day vulnerability actively exploited to target and compromise Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS)...
Fortinet warns of critical RCE flaw in FortiOS, FortiProxy devices
Fortinet has disclosed a critical severity flaw impacting FortiOS and FortiProxy, allowing a remote attacker to perform arbitrary code execution...
Microsoft: Chinese hackers breached US govt Exchange email accounts
A Chinese hacking group has breached the email accounts of more than two dozen organizations worldwide, including U.S. and Western...
Ransomware payments on record-breaking trajectory for 2023
Image: Bing Create Data from the first half of the year indicates that ransomware activity is on track to break...
Russian state hackers lure Western diplomats with BMW car ads
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group 'APT29' (aka Nobelium, Cloaked Ursa) has been using unconventional lures like car listings to entice...
