Category: TheHackerNews

President Biden
28
Mar
2023

President Biden Signs Executive Order Restricting Use of Commercial Spyware

Mar 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananSpyware / Cyber Security U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order that restricts the…

DBatLoader Malware
28
Mar
2023

Stealthy DBatLoader Malware Loader Spreading Remcos RAT and Formbook in Europe

Mar 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananMalware Attack / Hacking A new phishing campaign has set its sights on European entities to distribute…

Apple Issues Urgent Security Update for Older iOS and iPadOS Models
28
Mar
2023

Apple Issues Urgent Security Update for Older iOS and iPadOS Models

Mar 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananMobile Security Apple on Monday backported fixes for an actively exploited security flaw to older iPhone and…

BreachForums Founder
27
Mar
2023

20-Year-Old BreachForums Founder Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 20-year-old founder and the administrator of the now-defunct BreachForums has been formally charged in the U.S….

MacStealer macOS Malware
27
Mar
2023

New MacStealer macOS Malware Steals iCloud Keychain Data and Passwords

Mar 27, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Safety / Endpoint Security A new information-stealing malware has set its sights on Apple’s macOS operating…

SaaS
27
Mar
2023

Where SSO Falls Short in Protecting SaaS

Mar 27, 2023The Hacker NewsSaaS Security Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication method that allows users to authenticate their identity…

Microsoft Issues Patch for aCropalypse Privacy Flaw in Windows Screenshot Tools
27
Mar
2023

Microsoft Issues Patch for aCropalypse Privacy Flaw in Windows Screenshot Tools

Mar 27, 2023Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Windows Security Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to address a privacy-defeating flaw in its…

DDoS-For-Hire Sites
25
Mar
2023

U.K. National Crime Agency Sets Up Fake DDoS-For-Hire Sites to Catch Cybercriminals

Mar 25, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / DDoS Attack In what’s a case of setting a thief to catch a thief,…

Outlook vulnerability
25
Mar
2023

Microsoft Warns of Stealthy Outlook Vulnerability Exploited by Russian Hackers

Mar 25, 2023Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Microsoft Microsoft on Friday shared guidance to help customers discover indicators of compromise (IoCs)…

ChatGPT
25
Mar
2023

OpenAI Reveals Redis Bug Behind ChatGPT User Data Exposure Incident

Mar 25, 2023Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Data Security OpenAI on Friday disclosed that a bug in the Redis open source…

Malicious Python Package Uses Unicode Trickery to Evade Detection and Steal Data
24
Mar
2023

Malicious Python Package Uses Unicode Trickery to Evade Detection and Steal Data

Mar 24, 2023Ravie LakshmananDevSecOps / Software Security A malicious Python package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository has been…

GitHub
24
Mar
2023

GitHub Swiftly Replaces Exposed RSA SSH Key to Protect Git Operations

Mar 24, 2023Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Programming Cloud-based repository hosting service GitHub said it took the step of replacing its…