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Industrial Control Systems
21
Nov
2024

Over 145,000 Industrial Control Systems Across 175 Countries Found Exposed Online

New research has uncovered more than 145,000 internet-exposed Industrial Control Systems (ICS) across 175 countries, with the U.S. alone accounting…

Multi-Million Dollar Cybercrime Scheme
21
Nov
2024

5 Scattered Spider Gang Members Indicted in Multi-Million Dollar Cybercrime Scheme

Nov 21, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Identity Theft Five alleged members of the infamous Scattered Spider cybercrime crew have been indicted…

Open-Source Projects
21
Nov
2024

Google’s AI-Powered OSS-Fuzz Tool Finds 26 Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Projects

Nov 21, 2024Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Software Security Google has revealed that its AI-powered fuzzing tool, OSS-Fuzz, has been used…

Facebook Ad Accounts
21
Nov
2024

NodeStealer Malware Targets Facebook Ad Accounts, Harvesting Credit Card Data

Threat hunters are warning about an updated version of the Python-based NodeStealer that’s now equipped to extract more information from…

Mobile Payments
20
Nov
2024

Hackers Exploiting NFCGate to Steal Funds via Mobile Payments

Nov 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananPayment Security / Cybercrime Threat actors are increasingly banking on a new technique that leverages near-field communication…

Windows Resiliency Initiative
20
Nov
2024

Microsoft Launches Windows Resiliency Initiative to Boost Security and System Integrity

Nov 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / AI Research Microsoft has announced a new Windows Resiliency Initiative as a way to…

Future of Cybersecurity
20
Nov
2024

NHIs Are the Future of Cybersecurity: Meet NHIDR

Nov 20, 2024The Hacker NewsIdentity Security / Cyber Defense The frequency and sophistication of modern cyberattacks are surging, making it…

Ubuntu Vulnerabilities
20
Nov
2024

Decades-Old Security Vulnerabilities Found in Ubuntu’s Needrestart Package

Nov 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananLinux / Vulnerability Multiple decade-old security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the needrestart package installed by default…

Hacking Telecom Networks
20
Nov
2024

China-Backed Hackers Leverage SIGTRAN, GSM Protocols to Infiltrate Telecom Networks

Nov 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Telecom Security A new China-linked cyber espionage group has been attributed as behind a…

Oracle Agile PLM Vulnerability
20
Nov
2024

Oracle Warns of Agile PLM Vulnerability Currently Under Active Exploitation

Nov 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Vulnerability Oracle is warning that a high-severity security flaw impacting the Agile Product Lifecycle…

Apple Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
20
Nov
2024

Apple Releases Urgent Updates to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Nov 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananZero Day / Vulnerability Apple has released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, and its Safari…

Illegal Sports Broadcasts
19
Nov
2024

Hackers Hijack Unsecured Jupyter Notebooks to Stream Illegal Sports Broadcasts

Nov 19, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Piracy Malicious actors are exploiting misconfigured JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks to conduct stream ripping…