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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…

PAN-OS Firewall Vulnerability
16
Nov
2024

PAN-OS Firewall Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation – IoCs Released

Nov 16, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Palo Alto Networks has released new indicators of compromise (IoCs) a day after…

DEEPDATA Malware Exploiting Unpatched Fortinet Flaw to Steal VPN Credentials
16
Nov
2024

DEEPDATA Malware Exploiting Unpatched Fortinet Flaw to Steal VPN Credentials

A threat actor known as BrazenBamboo has exploited an unresolved security flaw in Fortinet’s FortiClient for Windows to extract VPN…

Iranian State-Sponsored Group
15
Nov
2024

Iranian Hackers Deploy WezRat Malware in Attacks Targeting Israeli Organizations

Nov 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new remote access trojan and information…

Master Certificate Management
15
Nov
2024

Join This Webinar on Crypto Agility and Best Practices

Nov 15, 2024The Hacker NewsWebinar / Cyber Security In the fast-paced digital world, trust is everything—but what happens when that…

Researchers Warn of Privilege Escalation Risks in Google's Vertex AI ML Platform
15
Nov
2024

Researchers Warn of Privilege Escalation Risks in Google’s Vertex AI ML Platform

Nov 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in Google’s Vertex machine learning (ML)…

Machine Learning / Identity Security
15
Nov
2024

How AI Is Transforming IAM and Identity Security

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has begun revolutionizing Identity Access Management (IAM), reshaping how cybersecurity is approached in this…

Vietnamese Hacker
15
Nov
2024

Vietnamese Hacker Group Deploys New PXA Stealer Targeting Europe and Asia

Nov 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Credential Theft A Vietnamese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an information-stealing campaign targeting government…

PostgreSQL
15
Nov
2024

High-Severity Flaw in PostgreSQL Allows Hackers to Exploit Environment Variables

Nov 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Database Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the PostgreSQL open-source database…

Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years, Guilty of Laundering $10.5 Billion in Bitcoin
15
Nov
2024

Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years, Guilty of Laundering $10.5 Billion in Bitcoin

Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, has been sentenced to five years…