Threat actors are cashing in on the rapid shift to cloud-based business services during the pandemic, by hiding behind ubiquitous, trusted services from Microsoft and Google to legitimate. click here to read full Article...
In the cybercriminal underground, ransomware samples and builders are going for anywhere between $300 to $4,000, with ransomware-as-a-service rentals costing $120 to $1,900 per year. click here to read full Article Read More on...
The notorious FIN7 cybercrime gang, a financially motivated group, is spreading a backdoor called Lizar under the guise of being a Windows pen-testing tool for ethical hackers. click here to read full Article Read...
Telegram groups are being abused by fraudsters peddling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to the unvaccinated and anti-vaxxer communities, according to security researchers. click here to read full Article Read more on computer hacking news
A team of four cybersecurity professionals concluded that the ACT e-voting system errors did not impact any election outcomes, but could potentially sway future vote counts if left uncorrected. click here to read full...
A database filled with the medical records of nearly 200,000 U.S. military veterans was exposed online by United Valor, a vendor working for the Veterans Administration, according to an analyst. click here to read...
Innovative twists on banking scams and corporate-account hunters wielding increasingly clever lures, including fake COVID-19 vaccine promises, are likely to dominate the spam and phishing landscape. click here to read full Article Read More...
HPE is urging customers to patch its edge application management tools that could allow an attacker to carry out a remote authentication bypass attack and infiltrate a customer’s cloud infrastructure. click here to read...
All defenses against Spectre side-channel attacks can now be considered broken, leaving billions of computers and other devices just as vulnerable today as they were three years ago. click here to read full Article...
A previously undocumented backdoor malware, dubbed PortDoor, is being used by a probable Chinese advanced persistent threat actor (APT) to target the Russian defense sector, according to researchers. click here to read full Article...
Android mobile phone users across the U.K. are being targeted by text messages containing a particularly nasty piece of spyware called “Flubot,” according to the country’s National Cyber Security Centre. click here to read...
The operators not only lock up files, but also steal data and threaten to leak it if the ransom isn’t paid, in a double-extortion gambit. They also demand multimillion-dollar ransoms. click here to read...
The patch was part of the Firefox 88 update, Firefox ESR 78.10 browser, and Thunderbird 78.10 email client. In total, Firefox 88 addresses 13 browser bugs, six of which are rated high-severity. click here...
The BazarLoader downloader, written in C++, has the primary function of downloading and executing additional modules. BazarLoader was first observed in the wild last April – and since then researchers have observed at least...
Sophos researchers discovered that the threat actors are using Exchange servers compromised using the highly publicized exploit chain—which suffered a barrage of attacks from advanced persistent threat (APT) groups to infect systems. click here...
According to researchers at Group-IB, the Swarmshop cyber-underground “card shop” has been hit by hackers, who lifted the site’s database of stolen payment-card data and leaked it online. click here to read full Article...
