Memorial University recovers from cyberattack, delays semester start
The Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) continues to deal with the effects of a cyberattack that occurred in late December and postponed the start of…
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Ethical hacking is a useful skill set not just for cybersecurity experts, but for every IT worker. The Ultimate 2020 White Hat Hacker Certification Bundle…
Crypto wallet founder loses $125,000 to fake airdrop website
A crypto wallet service co-founder shares with the world his agony after losing $125,000 to a crypto scam. The startup CEO, who at the time…
Ivanti warns critical EPM bug lets hackers hijack enrolled devices
Ivanti fixed a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its Endpoint Management software (EPM) that can let unauthenticated attackers hijack enrolled devices or the core…
Russian hackers wiped thousands of systems in KyivStar attack
The Russian hackers behind a December breach of Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest telecommunications service provider, have wiped all systems on the telecom operator’s core network. Following…
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…
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…