Record bot attack thwarted, says Cloudflare | Cybernews
04
Jan
2025

Record bot attack thwarted, says Cloudflare | Cybernews

Cybersecurity firm Cloudflare says it has shut down a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that marshaled a botnet army…

Researchers Uncover Nuclei Vulnerability Enabling Signature Bypass and Code Execution
04
Jan
2025

Researchers Uncover Nuclei Vulnerability Enabling Signature Bypass and Code Execution

Jan 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Software Security A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in ProjectDiscovery’s Nuclei, a widely-used open-source…

Hunting for blind XSS vulnerabilities: A complete guide
04
Jan
2025

Hunting for blind XSS vulnerabilities: A complete guide

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities are quite common and fun to find. They also carry great impact when chained with other…

Apartment scams are on the rise: landlords warned to be on the alert | Cybernews
04
Jan
2025

Apartment scams are on the rise: landlords warned to be on the alert | Cybernews

From unexpected charges to refusing to return a deposit, private landlords often have a bad reputation. Increasingly, though, they are…

Tech startup CTO: nobody likes passwords | Cybernews
04
Jan
2025

Tech startup CTO: nobody likes passwords | Cybernews

One day a computer scientist got a phone call nobody wants to get – that super-cool software tool he’d designed…

Ukrainian cyber experts who stayed behind to work and fight | Cybernews
04
Jan
2025

Ukrainian cyber experts who stayed behind to work and fight | Cybernews

These men I had the pleasure of talking to don’t get much time to rest, as they divide it between…

Travel fraud: if holiday deal sounds too good to be true – it probably is | Cybernews
04
Jan
2025

Travel fraud: if holiday deal sounds too good to be true – it probably is | Cybernews

As holiday bookings soar, so do fraud schemes that could ruin this precious time off. The public is urged to…

New FireScam Infostealer Spyware Hits Android via Fake Telegram Premium
04
Jan
2025

New FireScam Infostealer Spyware Hits Android via Fake Telegram Premium

SUMMARY FireScam Malware: FireScam disguises itself as a “Telegram Premium” app to target Android users via phishing websites mimicking trusted…

Apple May Owe You $20 in a Siri Privacy Lawsuit Settlement
04
Jan
2025

Apple May Owe You $20 in a Siri Privacy Lawsuit Settlement

It may be a new year, but the hacks, scams, and dangerous people lurking online haven’t gone anywhere. Just a…

Trojanized VPN Apps
04
Jan
2025

PLAYFULGHOST Delivered via Phishing and SEO Poisoning in Trojanized VPN Apps

Jan 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / VPN Security Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a…

Cybersecurity Firm
04
Jan
2025

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Beijing Cybersecurity Firm for State-Backed Hacking Campaigns

Jan 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / IoT Botnet The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday…

US Sanctions Chinese Company
04
Jan
2025

US Sanctions Chinese Company for Supporting Flax Typhoon Hacker Group

On Friday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced sanctions against Integrity Technology Group, a Beijing-based cybersecurity firm accused of…