A series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down seven German airports' websites on Thursday, a day after a major IT glitch at Lufthansa grounded flights.
The FBI has been investigating and working to contain a malicious cyber incident on part of its computer network in recent days, according to people briefed on the matter.
FBI officials believe the incident involved an FBI computer system used in investigations of images of child sexual exploitation, two sources briefed on the matter told CNN.
The Clop ransomware gang claims to be behind recent attacks that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the GoAnywhere MFT secure file transfer tool, saying they stole data from over 130 organizations.
Web hosting giant GoDaddy says it suffered a breach where unknown attackers have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment in a multi-year attack.
We've talked about this tiny gadget before: the Flipper Zero. Officially, it's a $170 tamagotchi-fied hacking gadget with a sub-gigahertz radio and some accessory pins. Unofficially, it's a menace's best friend.
The loss of availability Ransomware causes is enough to make your day/week/s bad, the loss of data, bad month/quarter or longer.
Lockbit posted “Royal Mail need new negotiator.” Followed by “ALL AVAILABLE DATA PUBLISHED !”
What we actually found is that they published the chat history:
Microsoft today patched 80 different vulnerabilities. This includes the Chromium vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Edge. Nine vulnerabilities are rated as "Critical" by Microsoft.
Three of the vulnerabilities, all rated "important", are already being exploited
Switchzilla hardware and software need attention, unless you fancy arbitrary remote code execution
Gone in 60 seconds using a USB-A plug and brute force instead of a key
A new Belgian law will allow ethical hackers to hack into the data of Belgian companies without any prior permission. Until now such practices could land you in jail.
No Morals, No Qualms, No Borders: From an Office Building in Israel, Experts in Technological Manipulation Are Attacking Democracies, Media and Elections Across the World
Dans du projet « Story Killers » qui poursuit le travail de la journaliste indienne Gauri Lankesh sur la désinformation, le consortium Forbidden Stories révèle aujourd’hui l’existence d’une entreprise israélienne ultra-secrète impliquée dans la manipulation d’élections à grande échelle et le piratage de responsables politiques africains. Une plongée inédite au cœur d’un monde où s’entremêlent armée de trolls, cyber espionnage et jeux d’influence. Story Killers, une enquête mondiale sur les mercenaires de la désinformation, que Mondafrique a le fierté de publier. Cécile Andrzejewski « Les choses n’ont pas forcément besoin d’être vraies, du moment qu’elles sont crues. » Voilà une citation qui
ThreatLabz observed a new campaign targeting a Government organization in which the threat actors utilized a new Command & Control (C2) framework named Havoc
We decided to check what ChatGPT already knows about threat research and whether it can help with identifying simple adversary tools and classic indicators of compromise, such as well-known malicious hashes and domains.
Learn how fake URL shorteners are redirecting hacked website traffic to crypto themed websites to generate fraudulent AdSense revenue.
Since December 2022, Cisco Talos has been observing an unidentified actor deploying two relatively new threats, the recently discovered MortalKombat ransomware and a GO variant of the Laplas Clipper malware, to steal cryptocurrency from victims.
This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS DDoS. Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps. This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, more than 35% higher than the previous reported record of 46M rps in June 2022.
What's allowed for Cupertino is verboten for everyone else
Apple has again been sued for promising privacy and allegedly failing to provide it.
The complaint [PDF], filed in Northern California District Court on behalf of plaintiff Julie Cima, claims Apple captures iPhone customer data despite device settings declaring a preference that information should not be shared.
Hackers dropped their logo into the online broadcast and a voice shouted, “Death to the Islamic Republic.”
In 2018, EFF along with researchers from Lookout Security published a report describing the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) we dubbed "Dark Caracal." Now we have uncovered a new Dark Caracal campaign operating since March of 2022, with hundreds of infections across more than a dozen countries. In this report we will present evidence that the cyber mercenary group Dark Caracal is still active and continues to be focused on Latin America, as was reported last year. We have discovered that Dark Caracal, using the Bandook spyware, is currently infecting over 700 computers in Central and South America, primarily in The Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
