Interpol Busts Phishing-as-a-Service Platform ’16Shop,’ Leading to 3 Arrests
Aug 10, 2023THNCyber Crime / Hacking Interpol has announced the takedown of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called 16Shop, in addition to the arrests of three…
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New Side-Channel Attacks Affecting Modern CPUs
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a trio of side-channel attacks that could be exploited to leak sensitive data from modern CPUs. Called Collide+Power (CVE-2023-20583),…
17 Nations Hit in 3-Year Cyber Campaign
Aug 09, 2023THNCyber Espionage / Cyber Attacks Hackers associated with China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) have been linked to attacks in 17 different countries…
Continuous Security Validation with Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS)
Validate security continuously across your full stack with Pen Testing as a Service. In today’s modern security operations center (SOC), it’s a battle between the…
New Report Exposes Vice Society’s Collaboration with Rhysida Ransomware
Aug 09, 2023The Hacker NewsCyber Threat / Ransomware Tactical similarities have been unearthed between the double extortion ransomware group known as Rhysida and Vice Society,…
U.K. Electoral Commission Breach Exposes Voter Data of 40 Million Britons
Aug 09, 2023THNData Breach / Cyber Attack The U.K. Electoral Commission on Tuesday disclosed a “complex” cyber attack on its systems that went undetected for…
Malicious Campaigns Exploit Weak Kubernetes Clusters for Crypto Mining
Aug 09, 2023THNCloud Security / Kubernetes Exposed Kubernetes (K8s) clusters are being exploited by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners and other backdoors. Cloud security…
IT Admins Can Now Disable 2G Networks
Aug 09, 2023THNMobile Security / Network Attack Google has introduced a new security feature in Android 14 that allows IT administrators to disable support for…
Microsoft Releases Patches for 74 New Vulnerabilities in August Update
Aug 09, 2023THNSoftware Security / Vulnerability Microsoft has patched a total of 74 flaws in its software as part of the company’s Patch Tuesday updates…
QakBot Malware Operators Expand C2 Network with 15 New Servers
Aug 08, 2023THNMalware / Cyber Threat The operators associated with the QakBot (aka QBot) malware have set up 15 new command-and-control (C2) servers as of…
Hackers Abusing Cloudflare Tunnels for Covert Communications
Aug 08, 2023THNCyber Threat / Network Security New research has revealed that threat actors are abusing Cloudflare Tunnels to establish covert communication channels from compromised…
Understanding Active Directory Attack Paths to Improve Security
Introduced in 1999, Microsoft Active Directory is the default identity and access management service in Windows networks, responsible for assigning and enforcing security policies for…