Royal Mail halts international services after cyberattack
The Royal Mail, UK’s leading mail delivery service, has stopped its international shipping services due to “severe service disruption” caused by what it described as…
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Gootkit malware abuses VLC to infect healthcare orgs with Cobalt Strike
The Gootkit loader malware operators are running a new SEO poisoning campaign that abuses VLC Media Player to infect Australian healthcare entities with Cobalt Strike…
Cisco warns of auth bypass bug with public exploit in EoL routers
Cisco warned customers today of a critical authentication bypass vulnerability with public exploit code affecting multiple end-of-life (EoL) VPN routers. The security flaw (CVE-2023-20025) was…
Scattered Spider hackers use old Intel driver to bypass security
A financially motivated threat actor tracked as Scattered Spider was observed attempting to deploy Intel Ethernet diagnostics drivers in a BYOVD (Bring Your Own Vulnerable…
Twitter claims leaked data of 200M users not stolen from its systems
Twitter finally addressed reports that a dataset of email addresses linked to hundreds of millions of Twitter users was leaked and put up for sale…
Threema claims encryption flaws never had a real-world impact
A team of researchers from ETH Zurich has published a paper describing multiple security flaws in Threema, a secure end-to-end encrypted communications app. Threema is…
StrongPity hackers target Android users via trojanized Telegram app
The StrongPity APT hacking group is distributing a fake Shagle chat app that is a trojanized version of the Telegram for Android app with an…
Microsoft January 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 98 flaws, 1 zero-day
Tag CVE ID CVE Title Severity .NET Core CVE-2023-21538 .NET Denial of Service Vulnerability Important 3D Builder CVE-2023-21782 3D Builder Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Important…
Microsoft fixes issue causing 0xc000021a blue screen crashes
Microsoft has addressed a known issue causing Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crashes with 0xc000021a errors after installing the Windows 10 KB5021233 cumulative update released…
New Dark Pink APT group targets govt and military with custom malware
Attacks targeting government agencies and military bodies in multiple countries in the APAC region have been attributed to what appears to be a new advanced…
Windows 10 KB5022282 and KB5022286 updates released
Microsoft has published the Windows 10 KB5022282 and KB5022286 cumulative updates for versions 22H2, version 21H2, version 21H1, and 1809 to fix security vulnerabilities and…
Trojan Puzzle attack trains AI assistants into suggesting malicious code
Researchers at the universities of California, Virginia, and Microsoft have devised a new poisoning attack that could trick AI-based coding assistants into suggesting dangerous code.…