Canada’s largest alcohol retailer’s site hacked to steal credit cards
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), a Canadian government enterprise and the country's largest beverage alcohol retailer, revealed that...
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Brave browser’s new Snowflake feature help bypass Tor blocks
Brave Browser version 1.47 was released yesterday, adding the Snowflake extension in the software's settings, enabling users to turn their...
The Week in Ransomware – January 13th 2023 – LockBit in the spotlight
The LockBit ransomware operation has again taken center stage in the ransomware news, as we learned yesterday they were behind...
Vice Society ransomware claims attack on Australian firefighting service
Australia's Fire Rescue Victoria has disclosed a data breach caused by a December cyberattack that is now claimed by the...
Royal Mail halts international services after cyberattack
The Royal Mail, UK's leading mail delivery service, has stopped its international shipping services due to "severe service disruption" caused...
European police takes down call centers behind cryptocurrency scams
Multiple call centers across Europe controlled by a criminal organization involved in online investment fraud were taken down this week...
MetaMask warns of new ‘Address Poisoning’ cryptocurrency scam
Cryptocurrency wallet provider MetaMask is warning users of a new scam called 'Address Poisoning' used to trick users into sending...
RAT malware campaign tries to evade detection using polyglot files
Operators of the StrRAT and Ratty remote access trojans (RAT) are running a new campaign using polyglot MSI/JAR and CAB/JAR...
Scattered Spider hackers use old Intel driver to bypass security
A financially motivated threat actor tracked as Scattered Spider was observed attempting to deploy Intel Ethernet diagnostics drivers in a...
Cisco warns of auth bypass bug with public exploit in EoL routers
Cisco warned customers today of a critical authentication bypass vulnerability with public exploit code affecting multiple end-of-life (EoL) VPN routers....
Royal Mail cyberattack linked to LockBit ransomware operation
A cyberattack on Royal Mail, UK's largest mail delivery service, has been linked to the LockBit ransomware operation. Yesterday, the...
PoC exploits released for critical bugs in popular WordPress plugins
Three popular WordPress plugins with tens of thousands of active installations are vulnerable to high-severity or critical SQL injection vulnerabilities,...
New Dark Pink APT group targets govt and military with custom malware
Attacks targeting government agencies and military bodies in multiple countries in the APAC region have been attributed to what appears...
NortonLifeLock warns that hackers breached Password Manager accounts
Gen Digital, formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock, is sending data breach notifications to customers, informing them that hackers have successfully...
Fortinet: Govt networks targeted with now-patched SSL-VPN zero-day
Fortinet says unknown attackers exploited a FortiOS SSL-VPN zero-day vulnerability patched last month in attacks against government organizations and government-related...
Microsoft: Cuba ransomware hacking Exchange servers via OWASSRF flaw
Microsoft says Cuba ransomware threat actors are hacking Microsoft Exchange servers unpatched against a critical server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability...
Microsoft: Exchange Server 2013 reaches end of support in 90 days
Microsoft warned customers today that Exchange Server 2013 will reach its extended end-of-support (EOS) date 90 days from now, on...
Threema claims encryption flaws never had a real-world impact
A team of researchers from ETH Zurich has published a paper describing multiple security flaws in Threema, a secure end-to-end...
Twitter claims leaked data of 200M users not stolen from its systems
Twitter finally addressed reports that a dataset of email addresses linked to hundreds of millions of Twitter users was leaked...
Android TV box on Amazon came pre-installed with malware
A Canadian systems security consultant discovered that an Android TV box purchased from Amazon was pre-loaded with persistent, sophisticated malware...
Gootkit malware abuses VLC to infect healthcare orgs with Cobalt Strike
The Gootkit loader malware operators are running a new SEO poisoning campaign that abuses VLC Media Player to infect Australian...
Hackers exploit Control Web Panel flaw to open reverse shells
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability patched recently in Control Web Panel (CWP), a tool for managing servers formerly...
Over 60,000 Exchange servers vulnerable to ProxyNotShell attacks
More than 60,000 Microsoft Exchange servers exposed online are yet to be patched against the CVE-2022-41082 remote code execution (RCE)...
Ransomware impacts over 200 govt, edu, healthcare orgs in 2022
Ransomware attacks in 2022 impacted more than 200 hundred larger organizations in the U.S. public sector in the government, educational,...
