Category: TheHackerNews

Illegal Sports Broadcasts
19
Nov
2024

Hackers Hijack Unsecured Jupyter Notebooks to Stream Illegal Sports Broadcasts

Nov 19, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Piracy Malicious actors are exploiting misconfigured JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks to conduct stream ripping…

Ngioweb Botnet
19
Nov
2024

Ngioweb Botnet Fuels NSOCKS Residential Proxy Network Exploiting IoT Devices

The malware known as Ngioweb has been used to fuel a notorious residential proxy service called NSOCKS, as well as…

Privileged Access Security
19
Nov
2024

Why Privileged Access Security Must Be a Top Priority

Nov 19, 2024The Hacker NewsInsider Threat / Credential Security Privileged accounts are well-known gateways for potential security threats. However, many…

Ransomware attacks on VMware and Linux Systems
19
Nov
2024

New ‘Helldown’ Ransomware Variant Expands Attacks to VMware and Linux Systems

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Linux variant of a relatively new ransomware strain called Helldown, suggesting that the…

Espionage Campaign
19
Nov
2024

Chinese Hackers Exploit T-Mobile and Other U.S. Telecoms in Broader Espionage Campaign

U.S. telecoms giant T-Mobile has confirmed that it was also among the companies that were targeted by Chinese threat actors…

Vulnerability
19
Nov
2024

Active Exploitation of VMware vCenter and Kemp LoadMaster Flaws

Nov 19, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Security Now-patched security flaws impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster and VMware vCenter Server have come…

The Problem of Permissions and Non-Human Identities
18
Nov
2024

The Problem of Permissions and Non-Human Identities

According to research from GitGuardian and CyberArk, 79% of IT decision-makers reported having experienced a secrets leak, up from 75%…

BabbleLoader Malware
18
Nov
2024

New Stealthy BabbleLoader Malware Spotted Delivering WhiteSnake and Meduza Stealers

Nov 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Ransomware Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new stealthy malware loader called BabbleLoader…

The Problem of Permissions and Non-Human Identities
18
Nov
2024

The Problem of Permissions and Non-Human Identities

According to research from GitGuardian and CyberArk, 79% of IT decision-makers reported having experienced a secrets leak, up from 75%…

18
Nov
2024

Fake Discount Sites Exploit Black Friday to Hijack Shopper Information

A new phishing campaign is targeting e-commerce shoppers in Europe and the United States with bogus pages that mimic legitimate…

Pegasus Spyware via Whatsapp Exploit
18
Nov
2024

NSO Group Exploited WhatsApp to Install Pegasus Spyware Even After Meta’s Lawsuit

Nov 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Spyware Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta’s WhatsApp…

WordPress Plugin Vulnerability
18
Nov
2024

Critical WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over 4 Million Sites

Nov 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Website Security A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been disclosed in the Really Simple Security…