A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of…
The startup shared millions of patients' personal information and health data with Google, Facebook, and TikTok.
ASEC (AhnLab Security Emergency response Center) has recently discovered the distribution of the Netcat malware targeting poorly managed MS-SQL servers. Netcat is a utility that allows users to send and receive data from…
Haaretz reveals NFV Systems’ surveillance tools; firm under investigation by secretive Israeli body for skirting arms export controls, in case that may ‘damage national security’
The Sysdig Threat Research Team recently discovered a sophisticated cloud operation in a customer environment, dubbed SCARLETEEL.
A ransomware gang has posted photos of Lehigh Valley Health Network cancer patients on the dark web after the health network refused to pay a ransom last month following a cyberattack.
Lumen Black Lotus Labs identified a new campaign involving compromised routers. HiatusRAT allows threat actors to remotely interact with the system.
Threat actors are taking advantage of Microsoft OneNote's ability to embed files and use social engineering techniques, such as phishing emails and lures inside the OneNote document, to get unsuspecting users to download and open malicious files.
Vulnerability CVE-2023-27532 in a Veeam Backup & Replication component allows an unauthenticated user operating within the backup infrastructure network perimeter to obtain encrypted credentials stored in the configuration database. This may lead to an attacker gaining access to the backup infrastructure hosts.
The hacker claims the stolen data includes confidential presentations from Acer, along with software files for the company's PC products. Acer says consumer data was not breached.
A potentially precedent-setting legal case involving Sony Music and Quad9 may endanger internet freedom of speech and allow unchecked content censorship.
LLaMA, Meta’s latest family of large language models, has been leaked along with its weights and is now available to download through torrents
A flaw in exists in sudo’s -e option (aka sudoedit) that allows a malicious user with sudoedit privileges to edit arbitrary files.
Sudo versions affected: Sudo versions 1.8.0 through 1.9.12p1 inclusive are affected. Versions of sudo prior to 1.8.0 construct the argument vector differently and are not affected.
CVE ID: This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2023-22809 in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database.
Details: When invoked as sudo -e or sudoedit, sudo can be used to edit privileged files while running the editor as an unprivileged user.
A PoC exploit for CVE-2023-21716, a critical RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Word that can be exploited when the user previews a specially crafted RTF document, is now publicly available.
This ransomware appeared in 2019, when cybercriminals started using it to launch attacks against organisations and critical infrastructure and industries. Based on the BitPaymer ransomware and part of the Dridex malware family, DoppelPaymer used a unique tool capable of compromising defence mechanisms by terminating the security-related process of the attacked systems. The DoppelPaymer attacks were enabled by the prolific EMOTET...
TikTok’s software development kits could undermine Joe Biden's order to stop internet traffic flowing from federal employees' phones to TikTok within 30 days.
While researching initial attack vectors, the Kroll Cyber Threat Intelligence team identified a fully featured information stealer and remote access tool in the python package index that could lead to an intensified threat landscape. Read more.
Credit Suisse is telling its clients that sensitive personal information including social security identification and contact details has been compromised.
Markets have imposed “inadequate costs” on companies that build vulnerable technology, it says.
Read the full strategy here Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released the National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the full benefits of a safe and secure digital ecosystem for all Americans. In this decisive decade, the United States will reimagine cyberspace as a tool to achieve our goals in a way that reflects our values: economic security…
