Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a major flaw in the Windows BitLocker encryption system, allowing attackers to access encrypted data.
HPE investigating claims by the hacker IntelBroker, who is offering to sell source code and other data allegedly stolen from the tech giant.
Since the end of 2024, we have been continuously monitoring large-scale DDoS attacks orchestrated by an IoT botnet exploiting vulnerable IoT devices such as wireless routers and IP cameras.
Despite both technical exposure by researchers and law enforcement disruption, this infrastructure has remained uncharacteristically consistent, only changing hosting providers. Given the contrasting high level of sophistication between Volt Typhoon’s activity within target organizations and their proxy network, it is possible the KV Botnet is operated by a party other than Volt Typhoon.
The Gootloader malware family uses a distinctive form of social engineering to infect computers: Its creators lure people to visit compromised, legitimate WordPress websites using hijacked Google search results, present the visitors to these sites with a simulated online message board, and link to the malware from a simulated “conversation” where a fake visitor asks a fake site admin the exact question that the victim was searching for an answer to.
