All posts tagged "hacking news"

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  New Cyber Espionage Group Targeting Ministries of Foreign Affairs

  Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday took the wraps off a new cyberespionage group that has been behind a series of targeted attacks against...

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  Beef Supplier JBS Paid Hackers $11 Million Ransom After Cyberattack

  Meat processing company JBS on Wednesday confirmed it paid extortionists $11 million in bitcoins to regain access to its systems following a...

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  Crypto-Mining Attacks Targeting Kubernetes Clusters via Kubeflow Instances

  Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed a new large-scale campaign targeting Kubeflow deployments to run malicious cryptocurrency mining containers. The campaign involved deploying...

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  EBook – Creating a Large Company Security Stack on a Lean Company Budget

  The speed at which malicious actors have improved their attack tactics and continue to penetrate security systems has made going bigger the...

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  U.S. Recovers $2.3 Million Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers

  In a major blow, the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday said it has recovered 63.7 bitcoins (currently valued at $2.3 million)...

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  Researchers Discover First Known Malware Targeting Windows Containers

  Security researchers have discovered the first known malware, dubbed “Siloscope,” targeting Windows Server containers to infect Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments. “Siloscape...

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  Hackers Breached Colonial Pipeline Using Compromised VPN Password

  The ransomware cartel that masterminded the Colonial Pipeline attack early last month crippled the pipeline operator’s network using a compromised virtual private...

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  Latvian Woman Charged for Her Role in Creating Trickbot Banking Malware

  The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday charged a Latvian woman for her alleged role as a programmer in a cybercrime...

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  GitHub Updates Policy to Remove Exploit Code When Used in Active Attacks

  Code-hosting platform GitHub Friday officially announced a series of updates to the site’s policies that delve into how the company deals with...

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  ALERT: Critical RCE Bug in VMware vCenter Server Under Active Attack

  Malicious actors are actively mass scanning the internet for vulnerable VMware vCenter servers that are unpatched against a critical remote code execution...

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  Necro Python Malware Upgrades With New Exploits and Crypto Mining Capabilities

  New upgrades have been made to a Python-based “self-replicating, polymorphic bot” called Necro in what’s seen as an attempt to improve its...

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  Hackers‌ ‌Actively‌ ‌Exploiting‌ ‌0-Day‌ ‌in WordPress Plugin Installed on Over ‌17,000‌ ‌Sites

  Fancy Product Designer, a WordPress plugin installed on over 17,000 sites, has been discovered to contain a critical file upload vulnerability that’s...

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  Malware Can Use This Trick to Bypass Ransomware Defense in Antivirus Solutions

  Researchers have disclosed significant security weaknesses in popular software applications that could be abused to deactivate their protections and take control of...

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  Researchers Warn of Facefish Backdoor Spreading Linux Rootkits

  Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new backdoor program capable of stealing user login credentials, device information and executing arbitrary commands on Linux...

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  SolarWinds Hackers Target Think Tanks With New ‘NativeZone’ Backdoor

  Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that the threat actor behind the SolarWinds supply chain hack returned to the threat landscape to target government...

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  Google Researchers Discover A New Variant of Rowhammer Attack

  A team of security researchers from Google has demonstrated yet another variant of the Rowhammer attack that bypasses all current defenses to...

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  Microsoft Warns of Data Stealing Malware That Pretends to Be Ransomware

  Microsoft on Thursday warned of a “massive email campaign” that’s pushing a Java-based STRRAT malware to steal confidential data from infected systems...

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  Watering Hole Attack Was Used to Target Florida Water Utilities

  An investigation undertaken in the aftermath of the Oldsmar water plant hack earlier this year has revealed that an infrastructure contractor in...

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  Android Issues Patches for 4 New Zero-Day Bugs Exploited in the Wild

  Google on Wednesday updated its May 2021 Android Security Bulletin to disclose that four of the security vulnerabilities that were patched earlier...

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  DarkSide Ransomware Gang Extorted $90 Million from Several Victims in 9 Months

  DarkSide, the hacker group behind the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack earlier this month, received $90 million in bitcoin payments following a nine-month...

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  How Apple Gave Chinese Government Access to iCloud Data and Censored Apps

  In July 2018, when Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD) agreed to a deal with state-owned telco China Telecom to move iCloud data belonging...