Australian Federal Police start search for CISO – Security
The Australian Federal Police is looking for a new chief information security officer following the departure of Tim Spiteri. The force said in a recruitment…
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Patients’ data exposed in phishing attack
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services disclosed a data breach after patients’ personal and health information was exposed in a data breach resulting…
Researchers sinkhole PlugX malware server with 2.5 million unique IPs
Researchers have sinkholed a command and control server for a variant of the PlugX malware and observed in six months more than 2.5 million connections…
Hackers Exploit Google Ads to Spread IP Scanner with Concealed Backdoor
Malicious actors are distributing a new backdoor, MadMxShell, through a Google Ads campaign that impersonates an IP scanner. This Windows backdoor leverages DNS MX queries…
Net neutrality has been restored
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today voted to restore a national standard to ensure the internet is fast, open, and fair. Today’s decision to reclassify…
North Korea’s Lazarus Group Deploys New Kaolin RAT via Fake Job Lures
Apr 25, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Threat The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Lazarus Group employed its time-tested fabricated job lures to deliver a new…
Reddit down in major outage blocking access to web, mobile apps
Reddit is investigating a major outage blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network’s websites and mobile apps. Users now see “502 Bad Gateway” and…
Over 1,400 CrushFTP servers vulnerable to actively exploited bug
Over 1,400 CrushFTP servers exposed online were found vulnerable to attacks currently targeting a critical severity server-side template injection (SSTI) vulnerability previously exploited as a zero-day.…
New PowerShell Script Tracer_ Analyze PowerShell Execution
Hackers exploit PowerShell, a built-in scripting tool on Windows (and sometimes Linux), to launch various attacks. PowerShell scripts can download malware, bypass antivirus, steal data,…
Progress being made on gender diversity in cyber
Gender diversity in the cyber security profession is improving, according to an ISC2 report on women in cyber security, which collated responses from 2,400 women…
Facebook end to end encryption a Boon or a Bane
Meta, encompassing Facebook and its subsidiaries, has staunchly advocated the end-to-end encryption safeguarding its messaging platforms, assuring users of protection against government surveillance, individual snooping,…
More evidence emerges that Post Office executive misled High Court judge
Post Office executive Angela van den Bogerd was part of the subterfuge adopted by the company to hide problems with its IT system, which included…