Category: TheHackerNews

Advanced Backdoor Capabilities
07
Jan
2025

New EAGERBEE Variant Targets ISPs and Governments with Advanced Backdoor Capabilities

Jan 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Hacking Internet service providers (ISPs) and governmental entities in the Middle East have been…

Moxa Alerts Users to High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Cellular and Secure Routers
07
Jan
2025

Moxa Alerts Users to High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Cellular and Secure Routers

Jan 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Taiwan-based Moxa has warned of two security vulnerabilities impacting its cellular routers, secure…

India Proposes Digital Data Rules with Tough Penalties and Cybersecurity Requirements
06
Jan
2025

India Proposes Digital Data Rules with Tough Penalties and Cybersecurity Requirements

Jan 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananRegulatory Compliance / Data Privacy The Indian government has published a draft version of the Digital Personal…

Ethereum Devs
06
Jan
2025

Cybercriminals Target Ethereum Developers with Fake Hardhat npm Packages

Jan 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananBlockchain / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have revealed several malicious packages on the npm registry that have been…

Researchers Uncover Nuclei Vulnerability Enabling Signature Bypass and Code Execution
04
Jan
2025

Researchers Uncover Nuclei Vulnerability Enabling Signature Bypass and Code Execution

Jan 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Software Security A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in ProjectDiscovery’s Nuclei, a widely-used open-source…

Trojanized VPN Apps
04
Jan
2025

PLAYFULGHOST Delivered via Phishing and SEO Poisoning in Trojanized VPN Apps

Jan 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / VPN Security Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a…

Cybersecurity Firm
04
Jan
2025

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Beijing Cybersecurity Firm for State-Backed Hacking Campaigns

Jan 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / IoT Botnet The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday…

AI Jailbreak
03
Jan
2025

New AI Jailbreak Method ‘Bad Likert Judge’ Boosts Attack Success Rates by Over 60%

Jan 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananMachine Learning / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be…

LDAPNightmare PoC Exploit
03
Jan
2025

LDAPNightmare PoC Exploit Crashes LSASS and Reboots Windows Domain Controllers

Jan 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananWindows Server / Threat Mitigation A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for a now-patched security flaw…

.NET Domains
03
Jan
2025

Update Old .NET Domains Before January 7, 2025 to Avoid Service Disruption

Jan 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Software Development Microsoft has announced that it’s making an “unexpected change” to the way .NET…

Siri Privacy Violations
03
Jan
2025

Apple to Pay Siri Users $20 Per Device in Settlement Over Accidental Siri Privacy Violations

Jan 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananTechnology / Data Privacy Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action…

Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Apps Web API
02
Jan
2025

Severe Security Flaws Patched in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Apps Web API

Jan 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Protection Details have emerged about three now-patched security vulnerabilities in Dynamics 365 and Power…