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WordPress miniOrange Plugins
18
Mar
2024

WordPress Admins Urged to Remove miniOrange Plugins Due to Critical Flaw

Mar 18, 2024NewsroomWebsite Security / Vulnerability WordPress users of miniOrange’s Malware Scanner and Web Application Firewall plugins are being urged…

Widespread Phishing Scheme
18
Mar
2024

APT28 Hacker Group Targeting Europe, Americas, Asia in Widespread Phishing Scheme

Mar 18, 2024NewsroomCyber Warfare / Malware The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 has been linked to multiple ongoing phishing…

Cracked Software on GitHub
16
Mar
2024

Hackers Using Cracked Software on GitHub to Spread RisePro Info Stealer

Mar 16, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have found a number of GitHub repositories offering cracked software that are used…

Data Leak Vulnerability
15
Mar
2024

GhostRace – New Data Leak Vulnerability Affects Modern CPUs

Mar 15, 2024NewsroomHardware Security / Data Protection A group of researchers has discovered a new data leakage attack impacting modern…

ChatGPT Plugins
15
Mar
2024

Third-Party ChatGPT Plugins Could Lead to Account Takeovers

Mar 15, 2024NewsroomData Privacy / Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have found that third-party plugins available for OpenAI ChatGPT could act…

Google
15
Mar
2024

Google Introduces Enhanced Real-Time URL Protection for Chrome Users

Mar 15, 2024NewsroomBrowser Security / Phishing Attack Google on Thursday announced an enhanced version of Safe Browsing to provide real-time,…

Notepad++ and VNote Installers
15
Mar
2024

Malicious Ads Targeting Chinese Users with Fake Notepad++ and VNote Installers

Mar 15, 2024NewsroomMalvertising / Threat Intelligence Chinese users looking for legitimate software such as Notepad++ and VNote on search engines…

LockBit Ransomware Hacker
14
Mar
2024

LockBit Ransomware Hacker Ordered to Pay $860,000 After Guilty Plea in Canada

Mar 14, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Cyber Crime A 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail in…

Malware
14
Mar
2024

RedCurl Cybercrime Group Abuses Windows PCA Tool for Corporate Espionage

Mar 14, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Malware The Russian-speaking cybercrime group called RedCurl is leveraging a legitimate Microsoft Windows component called…

Kubernetes Vulnerability
14
Mar
2024

Researchers Detail Kubernetes Vulnerability That Enables Windows Node Takeover

Mar 14, 2024NewsroomContainer Security / Vulnerability Details have been made public about a now-patched high-severity flaw in Kubernetes that could…

Cato
14
Mar
2024

3 Things CISOs Achieve with Cato

Being a CISO is a balancing act: ensuring organizations are secure without compromising users’ productivity. This requires taking multiple elements…

Malware Loader
14
Mar
2024

Ande Loader Malware Targets Manufacturing Sector in North America

Mar 14, 2024NewsroomCyber Threat / Malware The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been observed using a loader malware…