Category: TheHackerNews

Illegal Spyware Surveillance
06
Feb
2024

U.S. Imposes Visa Restrictions on those Involved in Illegal Spyware Surveillance

Feb 06, 2024NewsroomSurveillance / Privacy The U.S. State Department said it’s implementing a new policy that imposes visa restrictions on…

Crypto Money Laundering
05
Feb
2024

Belarusian National Linked to BTC-e Faces 25 Years for $4 Billion Crypto Money Laundering

Feb 05, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Financial Fraud A 42-year-old Belarusian and Cypriot national with alleged connections to the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange…

VajraSpy Malware
05
Feb
2024

Patchwork Using Romance Scam Lures to Infect Android Devices with VajraSpy Malware

Feb 05, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cyber Extortion The threat actor known as Patchwork likely used romance scam lures to trap…

Risk Management
05
Feb
2024

Combined Security Practices Changing the Game for Risk Management

Feb 05, 2024The Hacker NewsData Protection / Threat Intelligence A significant challenge within cyber security at present is that there…

iPhones
05
Feb
2024

Pegasus Spyware Targeted iPhones of Journalists and Activists in Jordan

Feb 05, 2024NewsroomSpyware / Surveillance The iPhones belonging to nearly three dozen journalists, activists, human rights lawyers, and civil society…

Mispadu Banking Trojan
05
Feb
2024

New Mispadu Banking Trojan Exploiting Windows SmartScreen Flaw

Feb 05, 2024NewsroomMalware / Financial Security The threat actors behind the Mispadu banking Trojan have become the latest to exploit…

Critical Infrastructure Cyber Attacks
03
Feb
2024

U.S. Sanctions 6 Iranian Officials for Critical Infrastructure Cyber Attacks

Feb 03, 2024NewsroomIntelligence Agency / Cyber Security The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against…

Mastodon Vulnerability
03
Feb
2024

Mastodon Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Hijack Any Decentralized Account

Feb 03, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Social Media The decentralized social network Mastodon has disclosed a critical security flaw that enables malicious…

AnyDesk
03
Feb
2024

Popular Remote Desktop Software Mandates Password Reset

Feb 03, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Software Security Remote desktop software maker AnyDesk disclosed on Friday that it suffered a cyber…

Cloud Security
02
Feb
2024

Integrating Insights from Recorded Future to Revolutionize Cloud Security

Feb 02, 2024The Hacker NewsThreat Intelligence / Cloud Security Cloudzy, a prominent cloud infrastructure provider, proudly announces a significant enhancement…

Russian APT28 Hackers
02
Feb
2024

Russian APT28 Hackers Targeting High-Value Orgs with NTLM Relay Attacks

Russian state-sponsored actors have staged NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hash relay attacks through various methods from April 2022 to…

DirtyMoe Malware
02
Feb
2024

DirtyMoe Malware Infects 2,000+ Ukrainian Computers for DDoS and Cryptojacking

Feb 02, 2024NewsroomCryptojacking / Malware The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned that more than 2,000 computers…