Rep. Don Bacon tweeted Monday that he had been notified by the FBI that his emails had been hacked.
The FBI is warning of a new tactic used by cybercriminals where they promote malicious "beta" versions of cryptocurrency investment apps on popular mobile app stores that are then used to steal crypto.
Cybersecurity researchers have documented a novel post-exploit persistence technique on iOS 16 that could be abused to fly under the radar and maintain access to an Apple device even when the victim believes it is offline.
The method "tricks the victim into thinking their device's Airplane Mode works when in reality the attacker (following successful device exploit) has planted an artificial Airplane Mode which edits the UI to display Airplane Mode icon and cuts internet connection to all apps except the attacker application," Jamf Threat Labs researchers Hu Ke and Nir Avraham said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
Fox-IT (part of NCC Group) has uncovered a large-scale exploitation campaign of Citrix NetScalers in a joint effort with the Dutch Institute of Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD). An adversary appears to have exploited CVE-2023-3519 in an automated fashion, placing webshells on vulnerable NetScalers to gain persistent access. The adversary can execute arbitrary commands with this webshell, even when a NetScaler is patched and/or rebooted. At the time of writing, more than 1900 NetScalers remain backdoored. Using the data supplied by Fox-IT, the Dutch Institute of Vulnerability Disclosure has notified victims.
The Discord.io custom invite service has temporarily shut down after suffering a data breach exposing the information of 760,000 members.
Understanding the complex threat landscape facing businesses today from state-sponsored cyber attacks is crucial to effective cyber defense.
Scammers are hacking websites powered by WordPress and placing phishing pages inside hidden directories. We share some statistics and tips on recognizing a hacked site.
After analyzing millions of computers infected with info-stealing malware, researchers at Hudson Rock said they identified 120,000 that contained credentials used for logging into cybercrime forums.
Threat actor “La_Citrix” is known for hacking companies — he accidentally infected his own computer and likely ended up selling it without noticing.
The platform sold hacking tools to more than 70,000 users in 43 countries
You've probably never heard of "16Shop," but there's a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. Last week, the international police organization INTERPOL said it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017…
Security researchers have identified that a widespread LinkedIn hacking campaign has seen many users locked out of their accounts worldwide.
Recent findings by Aqua Nautilus have exposed significant flaws that are still active in the PowerShell Gallery's policy regarding package names and owners. These flaws make typosquatting attacks inevitable in this registry, while also making it extremely difficult for users to identify the true owner of a package. Consequently, these flaws pave the way for potential supply chain attacks on the registry's vast user base.
In this article, we will focus on 8Base Ransomware, which ranked in the top 5 most active groups last month according to Daily Dark Web...
Raccoon Stealer, the InfoStealer that has been used to obtain 50M+ unique credentials is back with new features and updates.
Microsoft's OneDrive file-sharing program can be used as ransomware to encrypt most of the files on a target machine without possibility of recovery, partly because the program is inherently trusted by Windows and endpoint detection and response programs (EDRs).
Attendees at Def Con, one of the world’s largest hacking conferences, are used to weird shenanigans, such as a seemingly innocuous wall of computer screens that display people’s passwords sniffed over the conference Wi-Fi network. But at this year’s event, even conference veterans were confused and concerned when their iPhones started showing pop-up messages prompting them to connect their Apple ID or share a password with a nearby Apple TV.
You have have read about the hack of the Electoral Commission recently. In this piece we take a look at what happened, show they were running Microsoft Exchange Server with Outlook Web App (OWA) facing the internet, and the unpatched vulnerability that presented.
The number of ransomware attacks posted on extortion websites shot up to a record high in July, with ransomware gangs publicly claiming more than 15 attacks per day on average.
In total there were 484 ransomware attacks in July, compared to 408 the previous month, according to data collected by Recorded Future from extortion sites, government agencies, news reports, hacking forums, and other sources.
The new NoEscape ransomware operation is believed to be a rebrand of Avaddon, a ransomware gang that shut down and released its decryption keys in 2021.
