New Levels, New Devils: The Multifaceted Extortion Tactics Keeping Ransomware Alive
Having evolved from a basic premise of locking down a victim’s data with encryption, then demanding a ransom for its…
Fintech giant Finastra investigates data breach after SFTP hack
Finastra has confirmed it warned customers of a cybersecurity incident after a threat actor began selling allegedly stolen data on…
Ubuntu Linux impacted by decade-old ‘needrestart’ flaw that gives root
Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced…
CISA tags Progress Kemp LoadMaster flaw as exploited in attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added three new flaws in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog,…
Chinese hackers exploit Fortinet VPN zero-day to steal credentials
Chinese threat actors use a custom post-exploitation toolkit named 'DeepData' to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiClient Windows VPN client…
US space tech giant Maxar discloses employee data breach
Hackers breached U.S. satellite maker Maxar Space Systems and accessed personal data belonging to its employees, the company informs in…
Fake AI video generators infect Windows, macOS with infostealers
Fake AI image and video generators infect Windows and macOS with the Lumma Stealer and AMOS information-stealing malware, used to…
GitHub projects targeted with malicious commits to frame researcher
GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits and pull requests, in an attempt to inject backdoors into these projects. Most recently, the…
Palo Alto Networks warns of critical RCE zero-day exploited in attacks
Palo Alto Networks is warning that a critical zero-day vulnerability on Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) management interfaces, currently tracked as 'PAN-SA-2024-0015,'…
Fraud network uses 4,700 fake shopping sites to steal credit cards
A financially motivated Chinese threat actor dubbed "SilkSpecter" is using thousands of fake online stores to steal the payment card…