Category: TheHackerNews

RFID Cards
22
Aug
2024

Hardware Backdoor Discovered in RFID Cards Used in Hotels and Offices Worldwide

Aug 22, 2024Ravie LakshmananHardware Security / Supply Chain Attack Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a hardware backdoor within a particular model…

Chinese Hackers
22
Aug
2024

Chinese Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Cisco Switch Flaw to Gain System Control

Aug 22, 2024Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Zero-Day Details have emerged about a China-nexus threat group’s exploitation of a recently disclosed,…

AWS Vulnerability
22
Aug
2024

New ‘ALBeast’ Vulnerability Exposes Weakness in AWS Application Load Balancer

Aug 22, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Application Security As many as 15,000 applications using Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Application Load…

Enterprise Server
22
Aug
2024

GitHub Patches Critical Security Flaw in Enterprise Server Granting Admin Privileges

Aug 22, 2024Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Software / Vulnerability GitHub has released fixes to address a set of three security flaws impacting…

WordPress LiteSpeed Cache
22
Aug
2024

Critical Flaw in WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Allows Hackers Admin Access

Aug 22, 2024Ravie LakshmananWebsite Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin…

Google Fixes High-Severity Chrome Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild
22
Aug
2024

Google Fixes High-Severity Chrome Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild

Aug 22, 2024Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Vulnerability Google has rolled out security fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in…

New Malware PG_MEM Targets PostgreSQL Databases for Crypto Mining
22
Aug
2024

New Malware PG_MEM Targets PostgreSQL Databases for Crypto Mining

Aug 22, 2024Ravie LakshmananDatabase Security / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked a new malware strain dubbed PG_MEM that’s designed to…

Cyber Campaign
21
Aug
2024

North Korean Hackers Deploy New MoonPeak Trojan in Cyber Campaign

Aug 21, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware A new remote access trojan called MoonPeak has been discovered as being used…

Copilot Studio Vulnerability
21
Aug
2024

Microsoft Patches Critical Copilot Studio Vulnerability Exposing Sensitive Data

Aug 21, 2024Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting Microsoft’s Copilot Studio that…

North Korean Hacking Groups
21
Aug
2024

New macOS Malware TodoSwift Linked to North Korean Hacking Groups

Aug 21, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new macOS malware strain dubbed TodoSwift that they say…

OPSEC Fail
21
Aug
2024

Styx Stealer Creator’s OPSEC Fail Leaks Client List and Profit Details

Aug 21, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence In what’s a case of an operational security (OPSEC) lapse, the operator…

SaaS Ball of Yarn
21
Aug
2024

It’s Time To Untangle the SaaS Ball of Yarn

It’s no great revelation to say that SaaS applications have changed the way we operate, both in our personal and…