How MFA Failures are Fueling a 500% Surge in Ransomware Losses
The cybersecurity threat landscape has witnessed a dramatic and alarming rise in the average ransomware payment, an increase exceeding 500%. Sophos, a global leader in…
Category: TheHackerNews
Chinese Hackers Exploiting Cisco Switches Zero-Day to Deliver Malware
Jul 02, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Vulnerability A China-nexus cyber espionage group named Velvet Ant has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Cisco NX-OS Software…
Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny
Jul 02, 2024NewsroomDigital Regulation / Tech News Meta’s decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union (E.U.) has faced a new setback after…
Australian Man Charged for Fake Wi-Fi Scam on Domestic Flights
Jul 02, 2024NewsroomData Theft / Wi-Fi Security An Australian man has been charged with running a fake Wi-Fi access point during a domestic flight with…
Critical Flaws in CocoaPods Expose iOS and macOS Apps to Supply Chain Attacks
Jul 01, 2024NewsroomSupply Chain / Software Security A trio of security flaws has been uncovered in the CocoaPods dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa…
New OpenSSH Vulnerability Could Lead to RCE as Root on Linux Systems
Jul 01, 2024NewsroomLinux / Vulnerability OpenSSH maintainers have released security updates to contain a critical security flaw that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution…
Indian Software Firm’s Products Hacked to Spread Data-Stealing Malware
Jul 01, 2024NewsroomSupply Chain Attack / Threat Intelligence Installers for three different software products developed by an Indian company named Conceptworld have been trojanized to…
CapraRAT Spyware Disguised as Popular Apps Threatens Android Users
Jul 01, 2024NewsroomMobile Security / Spyware The threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has continued to unleash malware-laced Android apps as part of a social…
Making a Plan to Secure Your Machine Identities
At the heart of every application are secrets. Credentials that allow human-to-machine and machine-to-machine communication. Machine identities outnumber human identities by a factor of 45-to-1…
Juniper Networks Releases Critical Security Update for Routers
Jul 01, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Network Security Juniper Networks has released out-of-band security updates to address a critical security flaw that could lead to an authentication…
Google to Block Entrust Certificates in Chrome Starting November 2024
Jun 29, 2024NewsroomCybersecurity / Website Security Google has announced that it’s going to start blocking websites that use certificates from Entrust starting around November 1,…
Kimsuky Using TRANSLATEXT Chrome Extension to Steal Sensitive Data
Jun 28, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cyber Attack The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to the use of a new malicious…