Massive live sports piracy ring with 812 million yearly visits taken offline
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has taken down one of the world’s largest live sports streaming piracy rings, with over 821 million visits…
Month: December 2024
Another NetWalker affiliate sentenced to 20 years in prison
A 30-year old Romanian man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for leveraging the Netwalker ransomware to extort money from victims, the US Department…
Hackers Selling Cracked Version of Acunetix Tool as Araneida Scanner
Threat actors reportedly sell a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web application vulnerability scanner, for malicious purposes. The cracked software, known as the…
Sophos Issues Hotfixes for Critical Firewall Flaws: Update to Prevent Exploitation
Dec 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananFirewall Security / Vulnerability Sophos has released hotfixes to address three security flaws in Sophos Firewall products that could be exploited to…
Session Smart Routers With Default Passwords Hacked By Mirai Malware
Juniper Networks has issued an urgent advisory following reports of Mirai malware infections targeting Session Smart Routers (SSRs) left with default passwords. The campaign, first…
CISA Warns of BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access Exploited in Wild
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has sounded the alarm over a critical vulnerability impacting BeyondTrust’s Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS)…
Rspack npm Packages Compromised with Crypto Mining Malware in Supply Chain Attack
Dec 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Supply Chain Attack The developers of Rspack have revealed that two of their npm packages, @rspack/core and @rspack/cli, were compromised…
Raccoon Infostealer operator sentenced to 60 months in prison
Raccoon Infostealer operator sentenced to 60 months in prison Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2024 Raccoon Infostealer operator Mark Sokolovsky was sentenced to 60 months in…
Foxit PDF Editor/Reader Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Execute Remote Code
Foxit Software has released updates for its widely used Foxit PDF Reader and Foxit PDF Editor, addressing critical security vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to…
Foxit PDF Editor Vulnerabilities Allows Remote Code Execution
Foxit Software has issued critical security updates for its widely used PDF solutions, Foxit PDF Reader and Foxit PDF Editor. The updates—Foxit PDF Reader 2024.4…
Juniper warns of Mirai botnet scanning for Session Smart routers
Juniper Networks has warned customers of Mirai malware attacks scanning the Internet for Session Smart routers using default credentials. As the networking infrastructure company explained,…
Siemens UMC Vulnerability Let Remote Attacker Execute Arbitrary Code
A critical security flaw has been discovered in Siemens’ User Management Component (UMC), potentially exposing numerous industrial control systems to remote attacks. The vulnerability, identified…