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The alarming discovery of a backdoor in the xz data compression library , which had the potential to compromise Linux systems, has dominated recent security ne…
The Minerva attack is a cryptographic vulnerability that exploits deterministic behavior in systems like GnuTLS, leading to side-channel leaks. In specific sce…
A 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail in Canada for his participation in the LockBit global ransomware operat…
The threat actors behind the BlackCat ransomware have shut down their darknet website and likely pulled an exit scam after uploading a bogus law enforcement se…
The Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance has issued a new cybersecurity advisory warning of cyber threat actors exploiting known security flaws in Ivanti Con…
A new Go-based malware loader called CherryLoader has been discovered by threat hunters in the wild to deliver additional payloads onto compromised hosts for f…
Security researchers have identified a malicious tool called "SYSTEMBC" that hackers have been actively exploiting. This tool acts as a SOCKS5 proxy , providin…
The compromise of Mandiant's X (formerly Twitter) account last week was likely the result of a "brute-force password attack," attributing the hack to a drainer…
The recent wave of cyber attacks targeting Albanian organizations involved the use of a wiper called No-Justice.The findings come from cybersecurity company Cl…
Microsoft has warned of a new wave of CACTUS ransomware attacks that leverage malvertising lures to deploy DanaBot as an initial access vector.The DanaBot infe…
A set of novel attack methods has been demonstrated against Google Workspace and the Google Cloud Platform that could be potentially leveraged by threat actors…
Compromised Facebook business accounts are being used to run bogus ads that employ "revealing photos of young women" as lures to trick victims into downloading…
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of suspected exploitation of a recently disclosed critical security flaw in the Apache ActiveMQ open-source message broke…
A medium-severity flaw has been discovered in Synology's DiskStation Manager (DSM) that could be exploited to decipher an administrator's password and remotely…
Microsoft on Wednesday said that a user containment feature in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helped thwart a "large-scale remote encryption attempt" made byA…
LUCR-3 overlaps with groups such as Scattered Spider, Oktapus, UNC3944, and STORM-0875 and is a financially motivated attacker that leverages the Identity Prov…
Data security is in the headlines often, and it’s almost never for a positive reason. Major breaches, new ways to hack into an organization’s supposedly secure…
As cyber threats continue to evolve, adversaries are deploying a range of tools to breach security defenses and compromise sensitive data. Surprisingly, one of…
Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it found a new version of theBlackCatransomware (aka ALPHV and Noberus) that embeds tools like Impacket and RemCom to faci…
The Monti ransomware was found in June 2022 that attracted notice due to its close resemblance to the Conti ransomware, both in name and tactics, drawing atten…
A deeper analysis of a recently discovered malware calledDecoy Doghas revealed that it's a significant upgrade over thePupy RAT, an open-source remote access t…
A new strain of JavaScript dropper has been observed delivering next-stage payloads like Bumblebee and IcedID.Cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct is tracking the …
Email protection and network security services provider Barracuda is warning users about a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited to breach the company'…
An ongoing phishing campaign with invoice-themed lures is being used to distribute the SmokeLoader malware in the form of a polyglot file, according to the Com…