Former CIA Engineer Sentenced to 40 Years for Leaking Classified Documents
Feb 02, 2024NewsroomNational Security / Data Breach A former software engineer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been sentenced to 40 years in…
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INTERPOL Arrests 31 in Global Operation, Identifies 1,900+ Ransomware-Linked IPs
Feb 02, 2024NewsroomCyber Crime / Malware An INTERPOL-led collaborative operation targeting phishing, banking malware, and ransomware attacks has led to the identification of 1,300 suspicious…
Nation-State Hackers Access Source Code and Internal Docs
Feb 02, 2024NewsroomData Breach / Cloud Security Cloudflare has revealed that it was the target of a likely nation-state attack in which the threat actor…
Why the Right Metrics Matter When it Comes to Vulnerability Management
How’s your vulnerability management program doing? Is it effective? A success? Let’s be honest, without the right metrics or analytics, how can you tell how…
FritzFrog Returns with Log4Shell and PwnKit, Spreading Malware Inside Your Network
Feb 01, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Botnet The threat actor behind a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as FritzFrog has made a return with a new variant…
Exposed Docker APIs Under Attack in ‘Commando Cat’ Cryptojacking Campaign
Feb 01, 2024NewsroomCryptojacking / Linux Security Exposed Docker API endpoints over the internet are under assault from a sophisticated cryptojacking campaign called Commando Cat. “The…
U.S. Feds Shut Down China-Linked “KV-Botnet” Targeting SOHO Routers
The U.S. government on Wednesday said it took steps to neutralize a botnet comprising hundreds of U.S.-based small office and home office (SOHO) routers hijacked…
HeadCrab 2.0 Goes Fileless, Targeting Redis Servers for Crypto Mining
Feb 01, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Botnet Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of the malware HeadCrab that’s known to target Redis database servers across the…
New Malware Emerges in Attacks Exploiting Ivanti VPN Vulnerabilities
Feb 01, 2024NewsroomNetwork Security / Malware Google-owned Mandiant said it identified new malware employed by a China-nexus espionage threat actor known as UNC5221 and other…
CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Critical Vulnerability in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
Feb 01, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Software Update The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a high-severity flaw impacting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS,…
RunC Flaws Enable Container Escapes, Granting Attackers Host Access
Jan 31, 2024NewsroomSoftware Security / Linux Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the runC command line tool that could be exploited by threat actors…
Ivanti Discloses 2 New Zero-Day Flaws, One Under Active Exploitation
Jan 31, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Zero Day Ivanti is alerting of two new high-severity flaws in its Connect Secure and Policy Secure products, one of which…