T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in recent wave of telecom breaches
T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in the wave of recently reported telecom breaches conducted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to private communications, call records,…
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GitHub projects targeted with malicious commits to frame researcher
GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits and pull requests, in an attempt to inject backdoors into these projects. Most recently, the GitHub repository of Exo Labs, an…
NSO Group used another WhatsApp zero-day after being sued, court docs say
Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group reportedly used multiple zero-day exploits, including an unknown one named “Erised,” that leveraged WhatsApp vulnerabilities to deploy Pegasus spyware in…
Botnet exploits GeoVision zero-day to install Mirai malware
A malware botnet is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in end-of-life GeoVision devices to compromise and recruit them for likely DDoS or cryptomining attacks. The flaw…
FTC reports 50% drop in unwanted call complaints since 2021
On Friday, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported that the number of consumer complaints about unwanted telemarketing phone calls has dropped over 50% since…
Bitfinex hacker gets 5 years in prison for 120,000 bitcoin heist
A hacker responsible for stealing 119,754 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S.…
Microsoft pulls Exchange security updates over mail delivery issues
Microsoft has pulled the November 2024 Exchange security updates released during this month’s Patch Tuesday because of email delivery issues on servers using custom mail…
Palo Alto Networks warns of critical RCE zero-day exploited in attacks
Palo Alto Networks is warning that a critical zero-day vulnerability on Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) management interfaces, currently tracked as ‘PAN-SA-2024-0015,’ is actively being exploited in…
Microsoft just killed the Windows 10 Beta Channel for good
Microsoft has shut down the Windows 10 Beta Channel and will move all enrolled Windows Insiders to the Release Preview Channel. This comes after the…
Fraud network uses 4,700 fake shopping sites to steal credit cards
A financially motivated Chinese threat actor dubbed “SilkSpecter” is using thousands of fake online stores to steal the payment card details of online shoppers in…
CISA warns of more Palo Alto Networks bugs exploited in attacks
CISA warned today that two more critical security vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks’ Expedition migration tool are now actively exploited in the wild. Attackers can…
New Glove infostealer malware bypasses Chrome’s cookie encryption
New Glove Stealer malware can bypass Google Chrome’s Application-Bound (App-Bound) encryption to steal browser cookies. As Gen Digital security researchers who first spotted it while…