Category: TheHackerNews

Location-Privacy Lawsuit
15
Sep
2023

Google Agrees to $93 Million Settlement in California’s Location-Privacy Lawsuit

Sep 15, 2023THNPrivacy / Online Security Google has agreed to pay $93 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the…

Automated Threat Intelligence
15
Sep
2023

The Interdependence between Automated Threat Intelligence Collection and Humans

The volume of cybersecurity vulnerabilities is rising, with close to 30% more vulnerabilities found in 2022 vs. 2018. Costs are…

15
Sep
2023

NodeStealer Malware Now Targets Facebook Business Accounts on Multiple Browsers

Sep 15, 2023THNOnline Security / Malware An ongoing campaign is targeting Facebook Business accounts with bogus messages to harvest victims’…

Cybercriminals Combine Phishing and EV Certificates to Deliver Ransomware Payloads
15
Sep
2023

Cybercriminals Combine Phishing and EV Certificates to Deliver Ransomware Payloads

Sep 15, 2023THNRansomware / Cyber Threat The threat actors behind RedLine and Vidar information stealers have been observed pivoting to…

15
Sep
2023

Iranian Nation-State Actors Employ Password Spray Attacks Targeting Multiple Sectors

Sep 15, 2023THNCyber Attack / Password Security Iranian nation-state actors have been conducting password spray attacks against thousands of organizations…

Linux and macOS Systems
14
Sep
2023

Microsoft Uncovers Flaws in ncurses Library Affecting Linux and macOS Systems

Sep 14, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Vulnerability A set of memory corruption flaws have been discovered in the ncurses (short for…

Free Download Manager Site Compromised to Distribute Linux Malware to Users for 3+ Years
14
Sep
2023

Free Download Manager Site Compromised to Distribute Linux Malware to Users for 3+ Years

Sep 14, 2023THNSupply Chain / Malware A download manager site served Linux users malware that stealthily stole passwords and other…

IT Offboarding
14
Sep
2023

Avoid These 5 IT Offboarding Pitfalls

Employee offboarding is no one’s favorite task, yet it is a critical IT process that needs to be executed diligently…

Take Control Agent Vulnerability
14
Sep
2023

N-Able’s Take Control Agent Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Privilege Escalation

Sep 14, 2023THNVulnerability / Hacking A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in N-Able’s Take Control Agent that could be…

NSO Group's Zero-Click Spyware
14
Sep
2023

Russian Journalist’s iPhone Compromised by NSO Group’s Zero-Click Spyware

Sep 14, 2023THNSpyware / Malware The iPhone belonging to Galina Timchenko, a prominent Russian journalist and critic of the government,…

Kubernetes Vulnerabilities
13
Sep
2023

New Kubernetes Vulnerabilities Enable Remote Attacks on Windows Endpoints

Sep 13, 2023THNKubernetes / Cloud Security Three interrelated high-severity security flaws discovered in Kubernetes could be exploited to achieve remote…

Azure HDInsight Analytics Service
13
Sep
2023

Researchers Detail 8 Vulnerabilities in Azure HDInsight Analytics Service

Sep 13, 2023THNVulnerability / Data Security More details have emerged about a set of now-patched cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in…