Apple’s iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari Under Attack with New Zero-Day Flaw
Feb 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananDevice Security / Zero Day Apple on Monday rolled out security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari to address a zero-day…
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Massive HTTP DDoS Attack Hits Record High of 71 Million Requests/Second
Feb 14, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71…
Hackers Create Malicious Dota 2 Game Modes to Secretly Access Players’ Systems
Feb 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananGame Hacking / Cyber Threat An unknown threat actor created malicious game modes for the Dota 2 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA)…
The Use of Deception in ICS/OT Environments
There have been a number of reports of attacks on industrial control systems (ICS) in the past few years. Looking a bit closer, most of…
Chinese Tonto Team Hackers’ Second Attempt to Target Cybersecurity Firm Group-IB Fails
Feb 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat Intelligence The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Tonto Team carried out an unsuccessful attack on cybersecurity company Group-IB…
Hackers Targeting U.S. and German Firms Monitor Victims’ Desktops with Screenshotter
A previously unknown threat actor has been targeting companies in the U.S. and Germany with bespoke malware designed to steal confidential information. Enterprise security company…
New ESXiArgs Ransomware Variant Emerges After CISA Releases Decryptor Tool
Feb 11, 2023Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Endpoint Security After the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a decryptor for affected victims to recover from…
The New Threats to Cryptocurrency Users
Suspected Russian threat actors have been targeting Eastern European users in the crypto industry with fake job opportunities as bait to install information-stealing malware on…
CISA Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting Fortra MFT, TerraMaster NAS, and Intel Driver Flaws
Feb 11, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Response / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities…
Researchers Uncover Obfuscated Malicious Code in PyPI Python Packages
Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Software Security Four different rogue packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) have been found to carry out a…
3 Overlooked Cybersecurity Breaches
Here are three of the worst breaches, attacker tactics and techniques of 2022, and the security controls that can provide effective, enterprise security protection for…
North Korean Hackers Targeting Healthcare with Ransomware to Fund its Operations
Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Ransomware State-backed hackers from North Korea are conducting ransomware attacks against healthcare and critical infrastructure facilities to fund illicit…