Hackers hijack govt and business accounts on X for crypto scams
Hackers are increasingly targeting verified accounts on X (formerly Twitter) belonging to government and business profiles and marked with ‘gold’ and ‘grey’ checkmarks to promote…
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Zeppelin ransomware source code sold for $500 on hacking forum
A threat actor announced on a cybercrime forum that they sold the source code and a cracked version of the Zeppelin ransomware builder for just $500.…
FTC offers $25,000 prize for detecting AI-enabled voice cloning
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started accepting submissions for its Voice Cloning Challenge, a public competition with a $25,000 top prize for ideas…
‘everything’ blocks devs from removing their own npm packages
Over the holidays, the npm package registry was flooded with more than 3,000 packages, including one called “everything,” and others named a variation of the word. The…
Mandiant’s account on X hacked to push cryptocurrency scam
The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and share a cryptocurrency…
Mandiant’s Twitter account hacked to push cryptocurrency scam
The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and share a cryptocurrency…
CISA warns of actively exploited bugs in Chrome and Excel parsing library
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added two vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, a recently patched flaw in Google Chrome and…
Nearly 11 million SSH servers vulnerable to new Terrapin attacks
Almost 11 million internet-exposed SSH servers are vulnerable to the Terrapin attack that threatens the integrity of some SSH connections. The Terrapin attack targets the SSH…
Data breach at healthcare tech firm impacts 4.5 million patients
HealthEC LLC, a provider of health management solutions, suffered a data breach that impacts close to 4.5 million individuals who received care through one of the company’s…
LastPass now requires 12-character master passwords for better security
LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts’ security.…
Nigerian hacker arrested for stealing $7.5M from charities
A Nigerian national was arrested in Ghana and is facing charges related to business email compromise (BEC) attacks that caused a charitable organization in the…
Hacker hijacks Orange Spain RIPE account to cause BGP havoc
Orange Spain suffered an internet outage today after a hacker breached the company’s RIPE account to misconfigure BGP routing and an RPKI configuration. The routing…