Fake Discount Sites Exploit Black Friday to Hijack Shopper Information
A new phishing campaign is targeting e-commerce shoppers in Europe and the United States with bogus pages that mimic legitimate brands with the goal of…
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NSO Group Exploited WhatsApp to Install Pegasus Spyware Even After Meta’s Lawsuit
Nov 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Spyware Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta’s WhatsApp and NSO Group have revealed…
Critical WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over 4 Million Sites
Nov 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Website Security A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been disclosed in the Really Simple Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) plugin…
PAN-OS Firewall Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation – IoCs Released
Nov 16, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Palo Alto Networks has released new indicators of compromise (IoCs) a day after the network security vendor confirmed…
DEEPDATA Malware Exploiting Unpatched Fortinet Flaw to Steal VPN Credentials
A threat actor known as BrazenBamboo has exploited an unresolved security flaw in Fortinet’s FortiClient for Windows to extract VPN credentials as part of a…
Iranian Hackers Deploy WezRat Malware in Attacks Targeting Israeli Organizations
Nov 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new remote access trojan and information stealer used by Iranian state-sponsored…
Join This Webinar on Crypto Agility and Best Practices
Nov 15, 2024The Hacker NewsWebinar / Cyber Security In the fast-paced digital world, trust is everything—but what happens when that trust is disrupted? Certificate revocations,…
Researchers Warn of Privilege Escalation Risks in Google’s Vertex AI ML Platform
Nov 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in Google’s Vertex machine learning (ML) platform that, if successfully exploited,…
How AI Is Transforming IAM and Identity Security
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has begun revolutionizing Identity Access Management (IAM), reshaping how cybersecurity is approached in this crucial field. Leveraging AI in…
Vietnamese Hacker Group Deploys New PXA Stealer Targeting Europe and Asia
Nov 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Credential Theft A Vietnamese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an information-stealing campaign targeting government and education entities in Europe…
High-Severity Flaw in PostgreSQL Allows Hackers to Exploit Environment Variables
Nov 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Database Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the PostgreSQL open-source database system that could allow unprivileged…
Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years, Guilty of Laundering $10.5 Billion in Bitcoin
Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, has been sentenced to five years in prison, the U.S. Department…