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Industrial Control Systems
16
Jan
2023

CISA Warns for Flaws Affecting Industrial Control Systems from Major Manufacturers

Jan 16, 2023Ravie LakshmananIndustrial Control Systems The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released several Industrial Control Systems…

CIA's Hive Malware
16
Jan
2023

New Backdoor Created Using Leaked CIA’s Hive Malware Discovered in the Wild

Jan 16, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Landscape / Malware Unidentified threat actors have deployed a new backdoor that borrows its features from…

CircleCI Hack
14
Jan
2023

Malware Attack on CircleCI Engineer’s Laptop Leads to Recent Security Incident

Jan 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Data Security DevOps platform CircleCI on Friday disclosed that unidentified threat actors compromised an employee’s…

Cacti Server Vulnerability
14
Jan
2023

Cacti Servers Under Attack as Majority Fail to Patch Critical Vulnerability

Jan 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Patch Management A majority of internet-exposed Cacti servers have not been patched against a…

TikTok
14
Jan
2023

TikTok Fined $5.4 Million by French Regulator for Violating Cookie Laws

Jan 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Online Safety Popular short-form video hosting service TikTok has been fined €5 million (about $5.4…

Cisco Router
14
Jan
2023

Cisco Issues Warning for Unpatched Vulnerabilities in EoL Business Routers

Jan 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Bug Report Cisco has warned of two security vulnerabilities affecting end-of-life (EoL) Small Business…

EyeSpy Surveillanceware
13
Jan
2023

Tainted VPNs Being Used to Spread EyeSpy Surveillanceware

Jan 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananVPN / Surveillanceware Tainted VPN installers are being used to deliver a piece of surveillanceware dubbed EyeSpy…

FortiOS Flaw
13
Jan
2023

FortiOS Flaw Exploited as Zero-Day in Attacks on Government and Organizations

Jan 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Incident Response A zero-day vulnerability in FortiOS SSL-VPN that Fortinet addressed last month was exploited…

Polyglot Files in Malware Distribution
13
Jan
2023

Cybercriminals Using Polyglot Files in Malware Distribution to Fly Under the Radar

Jan 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware Detection Remote access trojans such as StrRAT and Ratty are being distributed as…

Unified Cloud and Endpoint Security
13
Jan
2023

Only $1 for 1,000 Assets for all of 2023!

Jan 13, 2023The Hacker NewsUnified CNAPP / XDR As the new year begins, it’s more important than ever to protect…

IcedID Malware
12
Jan
2023

Active Directory Domain Compromised in Under 24 Hours

Jan 12, 2023Ravie LakshmananActive Directory / Malware A recent IcedID malware attack enabled the threat actor to compromise the Active…

Siemens PLC Hacking
12
Jan
2023

Over 100 Siemens PLC Models Found Vulnerable to Firmware Takeover

Jan 12, 2023Ravie LakshmananFirmware and Hardware Security Security researchers have disclosed multiple architectural vulnerabilities in Siemens SIMATIC and SIPLUS S7-1500…