An alert from France's ANSSI confirms several incidents that had previously been publicly reported and attributed to the Kremlin-backed hacking group that the French agency tracks as Nobelium.
U.S. officials imposed the “first of its kind” ban arguing that Kaspersky threatens U.S. national security because of its links to Russia.
Olga Loiek, a University of Pennsylvania student was looking for an audience on the internet – just not like this.
Shortly after launching a YouTube channel in November last year, Loiek, a 21-year-old from Ukraine, found her image had been taken and spun through artificial intelligence to create alter egos on Chinese social media platforms.
Her digital doppelgangers - like "Natasha" - claimed to be Russian women fluent in Chinese who wanted to thank China for its support of Russia and make a little money on the side selling products such as Russian candies.
One of Russia's top security officials called on Thursday for Russians to mobilise to inflict "maximum harm" on Western societies and infrastructure as payback for increasingly tough sanctions being imposed on Moscow by the U.S. and its allies.
Dmitry Medvedev’s June 13 call to do “maximum harm” to Western infrastructure is not so new: Russian strategists have thought about using ransomware to pressure adversary countries since at least 2016
Critical Microsoft Outlook vulnerability, CVE-2024-30103, and step-by-step instructions to force an update to all your end points.
The residents of Dumfries and Galloway are being warned their data was likely compromised in a February ransomware attack on the National Health Service (NHS).
UNC3944 is a financially motivated threat group that carries significant overlap with public reporting of "0ktapus," "Octo Tempest," "Scatter Swine," and "Scattered Spider" and has been observed adapting its tactics to include data theft from software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to attacker-owned cloud storage objects (using cloud synchronization tools), persistence mechanisms against virtualization platforms, and lateral movement via SaaS permissions abuse. Active since at least May 2022, UNC3944 has leveraged underground communities like Telegram to acquire tools, services, and support to enhance their operations.
A researcher has found a way to impersonate Microsoft corporate email accounts, which could make phishing attacks harder to spot.
Spanish newspaper Murcia Today reported that a British man was detained at Palma Airport as he prepared to board a flight to Italy.
Microsoft has released a critical security update for users of all supported Windows versions as a new Wi-Fi compromise requiring no authentication has been confirmed.
A ShinyHunters hacker tells WIRED that they gained access to Ticketmaster’s Snowflake cloud account—and others—by first breaching a third-party contractor.
Threat actors deliver fake software updates on websites for popular browsers: Sites with a high search engine ranking are at an increased risk.
Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.
Arm discloses a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-4610) in Mali GPU Kernel Drivers. This flaw, actively exploited, affects versions from r34p0 to r40p0
The Cardinal cybercrime group (Storm-1811, UNC4394), who are the main operators of the Black Basta ransomware, is suspected of exploiting a Windows privilege escalation vulnerability, CVE-2024-26169, before a fix was made available.
The breached data appears partly legitimate — if imperfect — but also widely available for sale by data brokers.
The New York Times notified an undisclosed number of contributors that some of their sensitive personal information was stolen and leaked after its GitHub repositories were breached in January 2024.
The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.
