Lessons from the Ticketmaster-Snowflake Breach
Last week, the notorious hacker gang, ShinyHunters, sent shockwaves across the globe by allegedly plundering 1.3 terabytes of data from 560 million Ticketmaster users. This…
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China-Backed Hackers Exploit Fortinet Flaw, Infecting 20,000 Systems Globally
Jun 12, 2024Newsroom State-sponsored threat actors backed by China gained access to 20,000 Fortinet FortiGate systems worldwide by exploiting a known critical security flaw between…
New Phishing Campaign Deploys WARMCOOKIE Backdoor Targeting Job Seekers
Jun 12, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing phishing campaign that leverages recruiting- and job-themed lures to deliver a…
Microsoft Issues Patches for 51 Flaws, Including Critical MSMQ Vulnerability
Jun 12, 2024NewsroomPatch Tuesday / Vulnerability Microsoft has released security updates to address 51 flaws as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for June 2024.…
What You Need to Know
One of the most effective ways for information technology (IT) professionals to uncover a company’s weaknesses before the bad guys do is penetration testing. By…
Chinese Actor SecShow Conducts Massive DNS Probing on Global Scale
Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a Chinese actor codenamed SecShow that has been observed conducting Domain Name System (DNS) on a global scale…
How Cynet Makes MSPs Rich & Their Clients Secure
Jun 11, 2024The Hacker NewsEndpoint Security / Incident Response Managed service providers (MSPs) are on the front lines of soaring demand for cybersecurity services as…
Apple Integrates OpenAI’s ChatGPT into Siri for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
Apple has announced the launch of a “groundbreaking cloud intelligence system” called Private Cloud Compute (PCC) that’s designed for processing artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in…
China-Linked ValleyRAT Malware Resurfaces with Advanced Data Theft Tactics
Jun 11, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Attack Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an updated version of malware called ValleyRAT that’s being distributed as part of a new…
Arm Warns of Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability in Mali GPU Drivers
Jun 11, 2024NewsroomMobile Security / Technology Arm is warning of a security vulnerability impacting Mali GPU Kernel Driver that it said has been actively exploited…
Snowflake Breach Exposes 165 Customers’ Data in Ongoing Extortion Campaign
Jun 11, 2024NewsroomData Theft / Cloud Security As many as 165 customers of Snowflake are said to have had their information potentially exposed as part…
More_eggs Malware Disguised as Resumes Targets Recruiters in Phishing Attack
Jun 10, 2024NewsroomPhishing Attack / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a phishing attack distributing the More_eggs malware by masquerading it as a resume, a technique…