Japanese police placed fake payment cards in convenience stores to protect the elderly targeted by tech support scams or unpaid money fraud. [...] | Continue reading
Okta warns of an "unprecedented" spike in credential stuffing attacks targeting its identity and access management solutions, with some customer accounts breached in the attacks. [...] | Continue reading
Telegram users are currently experiencing issues worldwide, with users unable to use the website and mobile apps. [...] | Continue reading
A new campaign tracked as "Dev Popper" is targeting software developers with fake job interviews in an attempt to trick them into installing a Python remote access trojan (RAT). [...] | Continue reading
Healthcare service provider Kaiser Permanente disclosed a data security incident that may impact 13.4 million people in the United States. [...] | Continue reading
The FBI has warned today that using unlicensed cryptocurrency transfer services can result in financial loss if these platforms are taken down by law enforcement. [...] | Continue reading
Reddit is investigating a major outage blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's websites and mobile apps. [...] | Continue reading
Over 1,400 CrushFTP servers exposed online were found vulnerable to attacks currently targeting a critical severity server-side template injection (SSTI) vulnerability previously exploited as a zero-day. [...] | Continue reading
Hackers have started to target a critical severity vulnerability in the WP Automatic plugin for WordPress to create user accounts with administrative privileges and to plant backdoors for long-term access. [...] | Continue reading
Security researchers have discovered a new Android banking trojan they named Brokewell that can capture every event on the device, from touches and information displayed to text input and the applications the user launches. [...] | Continue reading
Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill have been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for laundering more than $100 million from various criminal enterprises through Samourai, a cryptocurrency mixer service they ran for nearly a decade. [...] | Continue reading
Google is updating the client-side encryption mechanism for Google Meet to allow external participants, including those without Google accounts, to join encrypted calls. [...] | Continue reading
The Federal Trade Commission is sending $5.6 million in refunds to Ring users whose private video feeds were accessed without consent by Amazon employees and contractors, or had their accounts and devices hacked because of insufficient security protections. [...] | Continue reading
A threat actor has been using a content delivery network cache to store information-stealing malware in an ongoing campaign targeting systems U.S., the U.K., Germany, and Japan. [...] | Continue reading
Microsoft has released hotfix updates to address multiple known issues impacting Exchange servers after installing the March 2024 security updates. [...] | Continue reading
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their involvement in cyberattacks against the U.S. government, defense contractors, and private companies. [...] | Continue reading
The National Police Agency in South Korea issued an urgent warning today about North Korean hacking groups targeting defense industry entities to steal valuable technology information. [...] | Continue reading
The Department of State has started imposing visa restrictions on mercenary spyware makers and peddlers, prohibiting their entry into the United States, as announced earlier in February. [...] | Continue reading
The UnitedHealth Group has confirmed that it paid a ransom to cybercriminals to protect sensitive data stolen during the Optum ransomware attack in late February. [...] | Continue reading
BleepingComputer recently reported how a GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with Microsoft repositories, making the files appear trustworthy. It turns out, GitLab is also affected by this issue … | Continue reading
Ransomware actors have had a rough start this year, as stats from cybersecurity firm Coveware show that the trend of victims declining to pay the cybercriminals continues and has now reached a new record low of 28%. [...] | Continue reading
The Forminator WordPress plugin used in over 500,000 sites is vulnerable to a flaw that allows malicious actors to perform unrestricted file uploads to the server. [...] | Continue reading
A GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with a Microsoft repository, making the files appear trustworthy. [...] | Continue reading
While ransomware attacks decreased after the LockBit and BlackCat disruptions, they have once again started to ramp up with other operations filling the void. [...] | Continue reading
An operator of the HelloKitty ransomware operation announced they changed the name to 'HelloGookie,' releasing passwords for previously leaked CD Projekt source code, Cisco network information, and decryption keys from old attacks.. [...] | Continue reading
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is investigating a cyberattack after threat actors breached its IT systems to steal human resources data. [...] | Continue reading
Approximately 22,500 exposed Palo Alto GlobalProtect firewall devices are likely vulnerable to the CVE-2024-3400 flaw, a critical command injection vulnerability that has been actively exploited in attacks since at least March 26, 2024. [...] | Continue reading
A new info-stealing malware linked to Redline poses as a game cheat called 'Cheat Lab,' promising downloaders a free copy if they convince their friends to install it too. [...] | Continue reading
The Hospital Simone Veil in Cannes (CHC-SV) has announced that it was targeted by a cyberattack on Tuesday morning, severely impacting its operations and forcing staff to go back to pen and paper. [...] | Continue reading
A legitimate-looking Google Search advertisement for the crypto trading platform 'Whales Market' redirects visitors to a wallet-draining phishing site that steals all of your assets. [...] | Continue reading
A preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024, a volume-licensed and perpetual version of Office for commercial customers, is now available for Windows and macOS users. [...] | Continue reading
LastPass is warning of a malicious campaign targeting its users with the CryptoChameleon phishing kit that is associated with cryptocurrency theft. [...] | Continue reading
The financially motivated threat actor FIN7 targeted a large U.S. car maker with spear-phishing emails for employees in the IT department to infect systems with the Anunak backdoor. [...] | Continue reading
The U.S. Justice Department charged Moldovan national Alexander Lefterov, the owner and operator of a large-scale botnet that infected thousands of computers across the United States. [...] | Continue reading
Cisco has released patches for a high-severity Integrated Management Controller (IMC) vulnerability with public exploit code that can let local attackers escalate privileges to root. [...] | Continue reading
The Sandworm hacking group associated with Russian military intelligence has been hiding attacks and operations behind multiple online personas posing as hacktivist groups. [...] | Continue reading
Cybersecurity firms commonly sell "dark web monitoring" packages, with firms having slighly different features. Learn from Flare about the different dark web monitoring packages and the value they bring to your organization. [...] | Continue reading
At least six distinct botnet malware operations are hunting for TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) routers vulnerable to a command injection security issue reported and addressed last year. [...] | Continue reading
Starting today, millions living in the UK will receive email invitations to sign up for an e-visa account that will replace their physical immigration documents like Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs). The move is, according to the Home Office, "a key step in creating a modernise … | Continue reading
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with telehealth firm Cerebral in which the company will pay $7,000,000 over allegations of mishandling people's sensitive health data. [...] | Continue reading
Ivanti has released security updates to fix 27 vulnerabilities in its Avalanche mobile device management (MDM) solution, two of them critical heap overflows that can be exploited for remote command execution. [...] | Continue reading
Exploit code is now available for a maximum severity and actively exploited vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS firewall software. [...] | Continue reading
YouTube announced yesterday that third-party applications that block ads while watching YouTube videos violates its Terms of Service (ToS), and it will soon start taking action against the apps. [...] | Continue reading
Cisco warns about a large-scale credential brute-forcing campaign targeting VPN and SSH services on Cisco, CheckPoint, Fortinet, SonicWall, and Ubiquiti devices worldwide. [...] | Continue reading
A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-31497 in PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 could potentially allow attackers with access to 60 cryptographic signatures to recover the private key used for their generation. [...] | Continue reading
UnitedHealth Group reported an $872 million impact on its Q1 earnings due to the ransomware attack disrupting the U.S. healthcare system since February. [...] | Continue reading
There are things that you can do to make your web apps more resistant to social engineering. Learn more from Outpost24 on securing your web applications. [...] | Continue reading
A new campaign conducted by the TA558 hacking group is concealing malicious code inside images using steganography to deliver various malware tools onto targeted systems. [...] | Continue reading