Hackers can breach networks using data on resold corporate routers
Enterprise-level network equipment on the secondary market hide sensitive data that hackers could use to breach corporate environments or to obtain customer information. Looking at…
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Google ads push BumbleBee malware used by ransomware gangs
The enterprise-targeting Bumblebee malware is distributed through Google Ads and SEO poisoning that promote popular software like Zoom, Cisco AnyConnect, ChatGPT, and Citrix Workspace. Bumblebee…
EvilExtractor malware activity spikes in Europe and the U.S.
Researchers are seeing a rise in attacks spreading the EvilExtractor data theft tool, used to steal users’ sensitive data in Europe and the U.S. EvilExtractor…
GitHub now allows enabling private vulnerability reporting at scale
GitHub announced that private vulnerability reporting is now generally available and can be enabled at scale, on all repositories belonging to an organization. Once toggled…
The Week in Ransomware – April 21st 2023
A lot of news broke this week related to ransomware, with the discovery of LockBit testing macOS encryptors to an outage on NCR, causing massive…
Critical infrastructure also hit by supply chain attack behind 3CX breach
The X_Trader software supply chain attack that led to last month’s 3CX breach has also impacted at least several critical infrastructure organizations in the United…
GhostToken GCP flaw let attackers backdoor Google accounts
Google has addressed a Cloud Platform (GCP) security vulnerability impacting all users and allowing attackers to backdoor their accounts using malicious OAuth applications installed from…
Kubernetes RBAC abused to create persistent cluster backdoors
Hackers use a novel method involving RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) to create persistent backdoor accounts on Kubernetes clusters and hijack their resources for Monero crypto-mining.…
American Bar Association data breach hits 1.4 million members
The American Bar Association (ABA) has suffered a data breach after hackers compromised its network and gained access to older credentials for 1,466,000 members. The…
University websites using MediaWiki, TWiki hacked to serve Fortnite spam
Websites of multiple U.S. universities are serving Fortnite and ‘gift card’ spam. Researchers observed Wiki and documentation pages being hosted by universities including Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, UMass Amherst, Northeastern, Caltech, among…
Attackers use abandoned WordPress plugin to backdoor websites
Attackers are using Eval PHP, an outdated legitimate WordPress plugin, to compromise websites by injecting stealthy backdoors. Eval PHP is an old WordPress plugin that allows…
Ukraine targeted by 60% of Russian phishing attacks in 2023
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been monitoring and disrupting Russian state-backed cyberattacks targeting Ukraine’s critical infrastructure in 2023. Google reports that from January to…