An Elon Musk-funded PAC is targeting Republicans with ads that depict a fever-dream caricature of what Harris would do if elected president.

ReliaQuest has observed a new Black Basta social engineering campaign targeting users via Microsoft Teams and malicious QR codes.

Change Healthcare updated filings with the federal government to warn that about 100 million people had information accessed by hackers during a ransomware attack in February.

The Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS) Office for Civil Rights said Change Healthcare notified them on October 22 that “approximately 100 million individual notices have been sent regarding this breach.”

An unsealed criminal complaint says U.S. investigators used public evidence from various online platforms to identify a Russian national as the alleged creator of the Redline malware.

ThreatFabric’s latest insights on LightSpy malware, targeting both iOS and macOS. Learn about the evolving tactics, new destructive features, and the importance of keeping devices updated to defend against these advanced cyber threats.

A report by Secureworks revealed a 30% year-over-year rise in active ransomware groups, which demonstrates fragmentation of an established criminal ecosystem.

Downgrade attacks: researchers took over the Windows Update process to make the term “fully patched” meaningless on any Windows machine.

Mise à jour du 28 octobre 2024: Depuis le jeudi 24 octobre, il est impossible de se connecter et de s'enregistrer via Onelog, Single Sign-On porté conjointement par plusieurs entreprises de médias suisses, en raison d'une cyber-attaque. Les répercussions de la cyberattaque se poursuivent, indique un communiqué daté d'aujourd'hui 28 octobre.

Onelog souligne collaborer intensivement avec les entreprises concernées pour rétablir les services affectés dans les prochains jours. Des enquêtes sont menées pour évaluer l'ampleur de l'attaque, en coordination avec les autorités suisses et européennes. En raison de l’enquête en cours, aucun autre détail ne peut être divulgué. Onelog promet de communiquer des informations complémentaires dès que possible.

Most of the funds drained from a U.S. government crypto wallet in an apparent attack Thursday were sent back early Friday.

Self-contained HTML phishing attachment using Telegram to exfiltrate stolen credentials, Author: Jan Kopriva

• Analysis of an open directory found a Chinese speaking threat actor’s toolkit and history of activity.
• The threat actor displayed extensive scanning and exploitation using WebLogicScan, Vulmap, and Xray, targeting organizations in South Korea, China, Thailand, Taiwan, and Iran.
• The Viper C2 framework was present as well as a Cobalt Strike kit which included TaoWu and Ladon extensions.
• The Leaked LockBit 3 builder was used to create a LockBit payload with a custom ransom note that included reference to a Telegram group which we investigated further in the report.

Who doesn't love abusing buggy appliances, really?

Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.

Italian probe reveals “gigantic and alarming market of confidential data,” prosecutors say.

Fog and Akira ransomware operators have increased their exploitation efforts of CVE-2024-40766, a critical access control flaw that allows unauthorized access to resources on the SSL VPN feature of SonicWall SonicOS firewalls.

Italian police have placed four people under house arrest including Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, son of the late billionaire founder of Luxottica, as part of a probe into alleged illegal access to state databases, a source said on Saturday.
A lawyer for Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio said he was "eagerly awaiting the completion of preliminary investigations to be able to prove he has nothing to do with the events in question and that charges laid against him have no basis.

Reuters News has restored to its website an investigation into mercenary hacking after a New Delhi court lifted a takedown order it issued last year.
The article, originally published on Nov. 16, 2023, and titled “How an Indian startup hacked the world,” detailed the origins and operations of a New Delhi-based cybersecurity firm called Appin. Reuters found that Appin grew from an educational startup to a hack-for-hire powerhouse that stole secrets from executives, politicians and wealthy elites around the globe.

An invisible detonator and wafer-thin plastic explosives turned batteries into bombs

As the Akira ransomware group continues to evolve its operations, Talos has the latest research on the group's attack chain, targeted verticals, and potential future TTPs.

The targeting of the Republican presidential ticket’s phones is part of what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to gather information about American leaders.