FBI disrupts Russian Moobot botnet infecting Ubiquiti routers
The FBI took down a botnet of small office/home office (SOHO) routers used by Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) to proxy…
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New Google Chrome feature blocks attacks against home networks
Google is testing a new feature to prevent malicious public websites from pivoting through a user’s browser to attack devices and services on internal, private…
ALPHV ransomware claims loanDepot, Prudential Financial breaches
The ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the recent network breaches of Fortune 500 company Prudential Financial and mortgage lender loanDepot. The two companies…
Wyze investigating ‘security issue’ amid ongoing outage
Wyze Labs is investigating a security issue while experiencing a service outage that has been causing connectivity issues since this morning. In an incident report…
SolarWinds fixes critical RCE bugs in access rights audit solution
SolarWinds has patched five remote code execution (RCE) flaws in its Access Rights Manager (ARM) solution, including three critical severity vulnerabilities that allow unauthenticated exploitation.…
North Korean hackers now launder stolen crypto via YoMix tumbler
The North Korean hacker collective Lazarus, infamous for having carried out numerous large-scale cryptocurrency heists over the years, has switched to using YoMix bitcoin mixer…
Turla hackers backdoor NGOs with new TinyTurla-NG malware
Security researchers have identified and analyzed new malware they call TinyTurla-NG and TurlaPower-NG used by the Russian hacker group Turla to maintain access to a…
Three critical application security flaws scanners can’t detect
In today’s interconnected world, web application security is crucial for business continuity. Yet, web application attacks are now involved in 25% of all breaches. While…
Over 13,000 Ivanti gateways vulnerable to actively exploited bugs
Thousands of Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure endpoints remain vulnerable to multiple security issues first disclosed more than a month ago and which the…
Zeus, IcedID malware gangs leader pleads guilty, faces 40 years in prison
Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, one of the heads of the notorious JabberZeus cybercrime gang, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his leadership roles…
RansomHouse gang automates VMware ESXi attacks with new MrAgent tool
The RansomHouse ransomware operation has created a new tool named ‘MrAgent’ that automates the deployment of its data encrypter across multiple VMware ESXi hypervisors. RansomHouse is a…
Microsoft says it fixed a Windows Metadata server issue that’s still broken
Microsoft claims to have fixed Windows Metadata connection issues which continue to plague customers, causing problems for users trying to manage their printers and other…