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Update — With this month’s patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft has finally addressed this vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1162, by correcting how the Windows operating system handles calls to Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC). A Google security researcher has just disclosed details of a 20-year-old unpatched high-severity vulnerability affecting all versions of Microsoft Windows, back from Windows […]
If you are running a KDE desktop environment on your Linux operating system, you need to be extra careful and avoid downloading any “.desktop” or “.directory” file for a while. A cybersecurity researcher has disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the KDE software framework that could allow maliciously crafted .desktop and .directory files to silently […]
The same team of cybersecurity researchers who discovered several severe vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed as Dragonblood, in the newly launched WPA3 WiFi security standard few months ago has now uncovered two more flaws that could allow attackers to hack WiFi passwords. WPA, or WiFi Protected Access, is a WiFi security standard that has been designed to […]
Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of knowingly selling video surveillance system containing severe security vulnerabilities to the U.S. federal and state government agencies. It’s believed to be the first payout on a ‘False Claims Act‘ case over failure to meet cybersecurity standards. The lawsuit […]
The fileless code injection technique called Process Doppelgänging is actively being used by not just one or two but a large number of malware families in the wild, a new report shared with The Hacker News revealed. Discovered in late 2017, Process Doppelgänging is a fileless variation of Process Injection technique that takes advantage of […]
A German security researcher has publicly disclosed details of a serious vulnerability in one of the most popular FTP server applications, which is currently being used by more than one million servers worldwide. The vulnerable software in question is ProFTPD, an open source FTP server used by a large number of popular businesses and websites […]
Equifax, one of the three largest credit-reporting firms in the United States, has to pay up to $700 million in fines to settle a series of state and federal investigations into the massive 2017 data breach that exposed the personal and financial data of nearly 150 million Americans—that’s almost half the country. According to an […]
If you use Slack, a popular cloud-based team collaboration server, and recently received an email from the company about a security incident, don’t panic and read this article before taking any action. Slack has been sending a “password reset” notification email to all those users who had not yet changed passwords for their Slack accounts […]
Eastern European country Bulgaria has suffered the biggest data breach in its history that compromised personal and financial information of 5 million adult citizens out of its total population of 7 million people. According to multiple sources in local Bulgarian media, an unknown hacker earlier this week emailed them download links to 11GB of stolen […]
Security researchers have discovered a rare piece of Linux spyware that’s currently fully undetected across all major antivirus security software products, and includes rarely seen functionalities with regards to most Linux malware, The Hacker News learned. It’s a known fact that there are a very few strains of Linux malware exist in the wild as […]
The chaos and panic that the disclosure of privacy vulnerability in the highly popular and widely-used Zoom video conferencing software created earlier this week is not over yet. As suspected, it turns out that the core issue—a locally installed web server by the software—was not just allowing any website to turn on your device webcam, […]
Security researchers at Microsoft have released details of a new widespread campaign distributing an infamous piece of fileless malware that was primarily being found targeting European and Brazilian users earlier this year. Dubbed Astaroth, the malware trojan has been making the rounds since at least 2017 and designed to steal users’ sensitive information like their […]
TD Bank and Ford are just a few of the companies whose data was exposed by three Amazon S3 cubes that belong to Attunity. Three public cloud storage from Attunity leaked more than a terabyte of data of their Fortune 100 customers, including internal business documents, system passwords, and employee confidential information. Attunity, based in […]
In the last two weeks, Florida has paid more than $1.1 million in bitcoin to cybercriminals to recover encrypted files from two separate ransomware attacks—one against Riviera Beach and the other against Lake City. Lake City, a city in northern Florida, agreed on Monday to pay hackers 42 Bitcoin (equivalent to $573,300 at the current […]
Cybersecurity researchers from Intego are warning about possible active exploitation of an unpatched security vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Gatekeeper security feature details and PoC for which were publicly disclosed late last month. Intego team last week discovered four samples of new macOS malware on VirusTotal that leverage the GateKeeper bypass vulnerability to execute untrusted code […]
When you want to know everything related to space and science, NASA is the one-stop platform for all of us. They always bring new discoveries and amazing theories. However, it seems even the largest aeronautical research agency in the world is not safe from cyber criminals. The latest report issued by the Office of the […]
Important Update (21 June 2019) ➤ The Tor Project on Friday released second update (Tor Browser 8.5.3) for its privacy web-browser that patches the another Firefox zero-day vulnerability patched this week. Following the latest critical update for Firefox, the Tor Project today released an updated version of its anonymity and privacy browser to patch the same Firefox […]
Following an innumerable number of complaints, Instagram has started testing new methods to recover hacked accounts. Hackers have been targeting many high-profiled Instagram accounts and there was a wave of complaints related to such incidents. High-profile accounts, like those of lifestyle and fitness influencers, were hacked. The hackers would execute the attack via phishing emails […]
A massive data breach has hit Canva, the Australian tech unicorn based in Sydney. It was ZDNet that reported, on May 24, 2019, the hack that had happened earlier that day. The hacker, known by the name GnosticPlayers, had tipped off ZDNet that during the breach at the Sydney-based start-up, data for roughly 139 million […]
Note: We have updated this story to reflect new information after Stack Overflow changed its original announcement and shared more details on the security incident. Stack Overflow, one of the largest question and answer site for programmers, revealed today that unknown hackers managed to exploit a bug in its development tier and then almost a […]
In a brief announcement yesterday, Stack Overflow reports that it was the target of an attack that led hackers to access its production systems. The website is currently online and the few public details provided in a short message indicate that a survey revealed that a “level of production access was obtained on May 11”. […]