Category: TheHackerNews

SolarWinds Cyberattack
25
Oct
2024

SEC Charges 4 Companies Over Misleading SolarWinds Cyberattack Disclosures

Oct 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananRegulatory Compliance / Data Breach The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged four current and…

GDPR Violations
25
Oct
2024

Irish Watchdog Imposes Record €310 Million Fine on LinkedIn for GDPR Violations

Oct 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananDigital Advertising / Privacy The Irish data protection watchdog on Thursday fined LinkedIn €310 million ($335 million)…

Qilin.B Ransomware
24
Oct
2024

New Qilin.B Ransomware Variant Emerges with Improved Encryption and Evasion Tactics

Oct 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an advanced version of the Qilin ransomware sporting increased sophistication…

AWS Cloud Development Kit Vulnerability
24
Oct
2024

AWS Cloud Development Kit Vulnerability Exposes Users to Potential Account Takeover Risks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw impacting Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Development Kit (CDK) that could have resulted…

Cisco Issues Urgent Fix for ASA and FTD Software Vulnerability Under Active Attack
24
Oct
2024

Cisco Issues Urgent Fix for ASA and FTD Software Vulnerability Under Active Attack

Oct 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Cisco on Wednesday said it has released updates to address an actively exploited…

Legacy MFA
24
Oct
2024

The Hidden Risks of Legacy MFA

Sometimes, it turns out that the answers we struggled so hard to find were sitting right in front of us…

Chrome Vulnerability
24
Oct
2024

Lazarus Group Exploits Google Chrome Vulnerability to Control Infected Devices

The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a now-patched security…

Vulnerability
24
Oct
2024

Fortinet Warns of Critical Vulnerability in FortiManager Under Active Exploitation

Oct 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Fortinet has confirmed details of a critical security flaw impacting FortiManager that has…

Grandoreiro Banking Malware
23
Oct
2024

New Grandoreiro Banking Malware Variants Emerge with Advanced Tactics to Evade Detection

New variants of a banking malware called Grandoreiro have been found to adopt new tactics in an effort to bypass…

CVE-2024-38094
23
Oct
2024

CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38094)

Oct 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence A high-severity flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint has been added to the Known Exploited…

Permiso
23
Oct
2024

A Shake-up in Identity Security Is Looming Large

Oct 23, 2024The Hacker NewsIdentity Security / Data Protection Identity security is front, and center given all the recent breaches…

Ransomware
23
Oct
2024

Ransomware Gangs Use LockBit’s Fame to Intimidate Victims in Latest Attacks

Threat actors have been observed abusing Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) Transfer Acceleration feature as part of ransomware attacks designed…