20-Year-Old Russian LockBit Ransomware Affiliate Arrested in Arizona
Jun 16, 2023Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Cyber Crime The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday unveiled charges against a Russian national for his alleged involvement…
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Third Flaw Uncovered in MOVEit Transfer App Amidst Cl0p Ransomware Mass Attack
Jun 16, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Ransomware Progress Software on Thursday disclosed a third vulnerability impacting its MOVEit Transfer application, as the Cl0p cybercrime gang…
Ransomware Hackers and Scammers Utilizing Cloud Mining to Launder Cryptocurrency
Jun 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Ransomware Ransomware actors and cryptocurrency scammers have joined nation-state actors in abusing cloud mining services to launder digital assets, new…
Chinese UNC4841 Group Exploits Zero-Day Flaw in Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Jun 15, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan A suspected China-nexus threat actor dubbed UNC4841 has been linked to the exploitation of a recently patched zero-day flaw in Barracuda…
Vidar Malware Using New Tactics to Evade Detection and Anonymize Activities
Jun 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Threat The threat actors behind the Vidar malware have made changes to their backend infrastructure, indicating attempts to retool…
New Supply Chain Attack Exploits Abandoned S3 Buckets to Distribute Malicious Binaries
Jun 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananSoftware Supply Chain In what’s a new kind of software supply chain attack aimed at open source projects, it has emerged that…
GravityRAT Android Trojan Steals WhatsApp Backups and Deletes Files
Jun 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Privacy An updated version of an Android remote access trojan dubbed GravityRAT has been found masquerading as messaging apps…
6% of Employees Paste Sensitive Data into GenAI tools as ChatGPT
Jun 15, 2023The Hacker NewsBrowser Security / Data Security The revolutionary technology of GenAI tools, such as ChatGPT, has brought significant risks to organizations’ sensitive…
New Report Reveals Shuckworm’s Long-Running Intrusions on Ukrainian Organizations
Jun 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber War / Threat Intel The Russian threat actor known as Shuckworm has continued its cyber assault spree against Ukrainian entities in…
Microsoft Warns of New Russian State-Sponsored Hacker Group with Destructive Intent
Jun 15, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Microsoft on Wednesday took the lid off a “novel and distinct Russian threat actor,” which it said is linked to the…
LockBit Ransomware Extorts $91 Million from U.S. Companies
The threat actors behind the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme have extorted $91 million following hundreds of attacks against numerous U.S. organizations since 2020. That’s according…
Chinese Hackers Exploit VMware Zero-Day to Backdoor Windows and Linux Systems
Jun 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Network Security The Chinese state-sponsored group known as UNC3886 has been found to exploit a zero-day flaw in VMware ESXi…