Category: TheHackerNews

Iranian Hacker
02
Mar
2024

U.S. Charges Iranian Hacker, Offers $10 Million Reward for Capture

Mar 02, 2024NewsroomCybercrime / Social Engineering The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday unsealed an indictment against an Iranian…

Phishing Kit
01
Mar
2024

New Phishing Kit Leverages SMS, Voice Calls to Target Cryptocurrency Users

Mar 01, 2024NewsroomPhishing Kit / Cryptocurrency A novel phishing kit has been observed impersonating the login pages of well-known cryptocurrency…

BIFROSE Linux Variant
01
Mar
2024

New BIFROSE Linux Malware Variant Using Deceptive VMware Domain for Evasion

Mar 01, 2024NewsroomLinux / Cyber Threat Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Linux variant of a remote access trojan (RAT)…

Data Downtime and Loss
01
Mar
2024

4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss

More than a decade ago, the concept of the ‘blameless’ postmortem changed how tech companies recognize failures at scale. John…

Ivanti Connect Secure
01
Mar
2024

Five Eyes Agencies Warn of Active Exploitation of Ivanti Gateway Vulnerabilities

Mar 01, 2024NewsroomRootkit / Threat Intelligence The Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance has issued a new cybersecurity advisory warning of…

GitHub
01
Mar
2024

GitHub Rolls Out Default Secret Scanning Push Protection for Public Repositories

Mar 01, 2024NewsroomDevSecOps / Cybersecurity GitHub on Thursday announced that it’s enabling secret scanning push protection by default for all…

Silver SAML Attack
29
Feb
2024

New Silver SAML Attack Evades Golden SAML Defenses in Identity Systems

Feb 29, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cyber Threat Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new attack technique called Silver SAML that can…

Cybersecurity
29
Feb
2024

A Risk-Based Strategy for the Highest ROI

Feb 29, 2024The Hacker NewsAttack Surface / Incident Response As an IT leader, staying on top of the latest cybersecurity…

Windows Kernel Flaw
29
Feb
2024

Lazarus Hackers Exploited Windows Kernel Flaw as Zero-Day in Recent Attacks

Feb 29, 2024NewsroomRootkit / Threat Intelligence The notorious Lazarus Group actors exploited a recently patched privilege escalation flaw in the…

GTPDOOR Linux Malware
29
Feb
2024

GTPDOOR Linux Malware Targets Telecoms, Exploiting GPRS Roaming Networks

Feb 29, 2024NewsroomLinux / Network Security Threat hunters have discovered a new Linux malware called GTPDOOR that’s designed to be…

PyPI Malware
29
Feb
2024

Lazarus Exploits Typos to Sneak PyPI Malware into Dev Systems

Feb 29, 2024NewsroomMalware / Endpoint Security The notorious North Korean state-backed hacking group Lazarus uploaded four packages to the Python…

Backdoor
29
Feb
2024

New Backdoor Targeting European Officials Linked to Indian Diplomatic Events

Feb 29, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Malware A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed SPIKEDWINE has been observed targeting officials in European…