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140,000+ Cyber Attacks
01
Oct
2024

Free Sniper Dz Phishing Tools Fuel 140,000+ Cyber Attacks Targeting User Credentials

More than 140,000 phishing websites have been found linked to a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named Sniper Dz over the past…

Docker Swarm Botnet
01
Oct
2024

New Cryptojacking Attack Targets Docker API to Create Malicious Swarm Botnet

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign targeting the Docker Engine API with the goal of co-opting the instances…

Insider Trading Scheme
01
Oct
2024

U.K. Hacker Charged in $3.75 Million Insider Trading Scheme Using Hacked Executive Emails

Oct 01, 2024Ravie LakshmananCorporate Security / Financial Fraud The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a 39-year-old U.K. national…

Gas Stations to Remote Attacks
30
Sep
2024

Critical Flaws in Tank Gauge Systems Expose Gas Stations to Remote Attacks

Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in six different Automatic Tank Gauge (ATG) systems from five manufacturers that could expose…

Microsoft 365 Protection
30
Sep
2024

Why Microsoft 365 Protection Reigns Supreme

Imagine a sophisticated cyberattack cripples your organization’s most critical productivity and collaboration tool — the platform you rely on for…

Facebook and Instagram
30
Sep
2024

Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext

Sep 30, 2024Ravie LakshmananGDPR / Data Privacy The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million)…

Crypto Scam App
28
Sep
2024

Crypto Scam App Disguised as WalletConnect Steals $70K in Five-Month Campaign

Sep 28, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Android app on the Google Play Store…

Election Interference and Cybercrimes
28
Sep
2024

U.S. Charges Three Iranian Nationals for Election Interference and Cybercrimes

U.S. federal prosecutors on Friday unsealed criminal charges against three Iranian nationals who are allegedly employed with the Islamic Revolutionary…

Progress Software
27
Sep
2024

Progress Software Releases Patches for 6 Flaws in WhatsUp Gold – Patch Now

Sep 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Vulnerability Progress Software has released another round of updates to address six security flaws…

Linux CUPS Printing System
27
Sep
2024

Critical Linux CUPS Printing System Flaws Could Allow Remote Command Execution

Sep 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananLinux / Vulnerability A new set of security vulnerabilities has been disclosed in the OpenPrinting Common Unix…

Hybrid Cloud Ransomware Attacks
27
Sep
2024

Microsoft Identifies Storm-0501 as Major Threat in Hybrid Cloud Ransomware Attacks

The threat actor known as Storm-0501 has targeted government, manufacturing, transportation, and law enforcement sectors in the U.S. to stage…

HTML Smuggling Campaign
27
Sep
2024

New HTML Smuggling Campaign Delivers DCRat Malware to Russian-Speaking Users

Sep 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananGenAI / Cybercrime Russian-speaking users have been targeted as part of a new campaign distributing a commodity…