Category: TheHackerNews

MS Excel Vulnerability
21
Dec
2023

Hackers Exploiting Old MS Excel Vulnerability to Spread Agent Tesla Malware

Dec 21, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Phishing Attack Attackers are weaponizing an old Microsoft Office vulnerability as part of phishing campaigns to…

New Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability
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Dec
2023

Urgent: New Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Dec 21, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Zero-Day Google has rolled out security updates for the Chrome web browser to address a high-severity…

Remote Encryption Attacks
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Dec
2023

How One Vulnerable Device Can Spell Disaster

Dec 20, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Data Breach Ransomware groups are increasingly switching to remote encryption in their attacks, marking a…

Website Spoofing
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Dec
2023

Memcyco’s Real-Time Defense Against Website Spoofing

Dec 20, 2023The Hacker NewsBrandjacking / Cyber Threat Hands-On Review: Memcyco’s Threat Intelligence Solution Website impersonation, also known as brandjacking…

Smishing Attacks
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Dec
2023

Chinese-Speaking Hackers Pose as UAE Authority in Latest Smishing Wave

Dec 20, 2023NewsroomIdentity Theft / SMS Phishing The Chinese-speaking threat actors behind Smishing Triad have been observed masquerading as the…

Go-Based JaskaGO Malware
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Dec
2023

New Go-Based JaskaGO Malware Targeting Windows and macOS Systems

Dec 20, 2023NewsroomCryptocurrency / Malware A new Go-based information stealer malware called JaskaGO has emerged as the latest cross-platform threat…

Financial Criminals
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Dec
2023

3,500 Arrested in Global Operation HAECHI-IV Targeting Financial Criminals

Dec 20, 2023NewsroomFinancial Crime / Cyber Threat A six-month-long international police operation codenamed HAECHI-IV has resulted in the arrests of…

BlackCat Ransomware
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Dec
2023

FBI Takes Down BlackCat Ransomware, Releases Free Decryption Tool

Dec 19, 2023NewsroomRansomware / Cybercrime The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) has officially announced the disruption of the BlackCat ransomware operation…

Matveev Ransomware Empire
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Dec
2023

Behind the Scenes of Matveev’s Ransomware Empire: Tactics and Team

Dec 19, 2023NewsroomRansomware / Russian Hackers Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of the ransomware operation led…

GitHub to Evade Detection
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Dec
2023

Hackers Abusing GitHub to Evade Detection and Control Compromised Hosts

Dec 19, 2023The Hacker NewsSoftware Security / Threat intelligence Threat actors are increasingly making use of GitHub for malicious purposes…

Iranian Hackers
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Dec
2023

Iranian Hackers Using MuddyC2Go in Telecom Espionage Attacks Across Africa

Dec 19, 2023NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cyber Attack The Iranian nation-state actor known as MuddyWater has leveraged a newly discovered command-and-control…

Security Awareness Training
19
Dec
2023

Are We Ready to Give Up on Security Awareness Training?

Some of you have already started budgeting for 2024 and allocating funds to security areas within your organization. It is…