Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Ben McCarthy , lead cybersecurity engineer at Immersive Labs , called special attention to CVE-2024-43602 , a remote code execution vulnerability in Windows Kerberos , the authentication protocol that is heavily used in Windows domain networks. “This is one of the most threatening CVEs from this patch release,” McCarthy said.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2024

When Tanisha Martin, a veteran software quality assurance analyst, sought to move over to a security team a few years ago, the doors should have been wide open, given the much-ballyhooed cybersecurity skills shortage. So, Martin taught herself ethical hacking skills and then founded Black Girls Hack to guide others down the trail she blazed.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

billion signals a significant shift in how global financial institutions are approaching cybersecurity. Thus, it's clear that even the traditional "big players" are paying attention to AI, its effect on cybersecurity, and the changing security landscape. MasterCard's September 2024 acquisition of Recorded Future for $2.65

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently laid down the hammer charging and fining four prominent cybersecurity vendors for making misleading claims in connection with the SolarWinds hack. Joe Nicastro , Field CTO, Legit Security Nicastro Transparency in cybersecurity remains a complex balancing act.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 22, 2024

Hacking et Cybersécurité Mégapoche pour les Nuls , a single-volume book containing French versions of the latest editions of both the best selling CyberSecurity for Dummies by Joseph Steinberg, and Hacking For Dummies by Kevin Beaver, is now available to the public.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Meanwhile, while business logic hacks, supply chain holes, and cyber extortion continue to loom large. Alkove Jim Alkove , CEO, Oleria Identity is cybersecurity’s biggest challenge. Attackers arent hacking in theyre logging in. The drivers are intensifying.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2025

Treasury’s OFAC sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity firm and a Shanghai cyber actor for ties to Salt Typhoon and a federal agency breach. telecommunication and internet service providers. telecommunication and internet service providers. China-linked threat actors persistently target U.S. critical infrastructure.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The cybersecurity company had no further details on the vulnerability and was not aware of the active exploitation of the flaw. In particular, we recommend that you ensure that access to the management interface is possible only from trusted internal IPs and not from the Internet. Base Score: 9.3) ” reads the advisory.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. ”] Kislitsin was hired by Group-IB in January 2013, nearly six months after the Formspring hack. Department of Justice.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 7, 2020

This makes the data more likely to be hacked and stolen. Exponential increase in malware attacks on NASA systems Double the number of mitigation-blocking of NASA systems trying to access malicious sites (often unknowingly) due to users accessing the Internet.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2020

” Using threat intelligence feeds donated by dozens of cybersecurity companies, the CTC is poring over more than 100 million pieces of data about potential threats each day, running those indicators through security products from roughly 70 different vendors. “I’ve never seen this volume of phishing,” Rogers told Reuters. .

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 2, 2025

In a troubling security breach, a hacker exposed the personal data of over 270,000 Samsung customers in Germany, freely dumping it on the internet. The hack, attributed to a cybercriminal operating under the alias GHNA, occurred when the attacker accessed a system used by Samsungs German customer service.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The cybersecurity company has no further details on the vulnerability and said has yet to detect active exploitation. In particular, we recommend that you ensure that access to the management interface is possible only from trusted internal IPs and not from the Internet.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

As the dust settles following the recently disclosed hack of NewsCorp , important lessons are emerging for the cybersecurity and journalism communities. China has enclosed its national internet servers within what is colloquially called ‘the Great Firewall.’ Related: How China challenged Google in Operation Aurora.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Thanks to a couple of milestone hacks disclosed at the close of 2020 and start of 2021, they will forever be associated with putting supply-chain vulnerabilities on the map. Similarly, the SolarWinds and Mimecast hacks are precursors of increasingly clever and deeply-damaging hacks of the global supply chain sure to come.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Internet of Everything ( IoE ) is on the near horizon. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon , a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. In a security advisory published Aug. victims and one non-U.S.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Yet, the recent cybersecurity breach at the beloved doughnut chain highlights critical lessons for organizations of all sizes and industries. Cybersecurity experts often ask critical questions: "What is our attack surface?" The attack goes to show that, truly, nothing Internet-connected is sacred."

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 1, 2024

North Korean-linked hacking group TA-RedAnt has been implicated in a sophisticated large-scale cyber attack dubbed “Operation Code on Toast,” targeting unsuspecting users through a novel Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 16, 2023

Clop, the Russia-based ransomware gang that executed the MOVEit-Zellis supply chain hack, has commenced making extortion demands of some big name U.S. Related: Supply-chain hack ultimatum The nefarious Clop gang initially compromised MOVEit, which provided them a beachhead to gain access to Zellis, a UK-based supplier of payroll services.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

Does Apple really believe, for example, that NSO Group and its counterparts would find it easier to remotely enable spying on users of camera-lacking non-Internet-connected flip phones than on users of modern Apple devices? appeared first on Joseph Steinberg: CyberSecurity Expert Witness, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 13, 2023

The post How internet-facing webcams could put your organization at risk appeared first on TechRepublic. By exploiting webcams and other IoT devices, hackers can spy on private and professional conversations, potentially giving them access to sensitive information, says BitSight.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2025

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Smart Licensing Utility flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Cisco Smart Licensing Utility vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20439 , to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The company promptly launched an investigation into the incident with the help of external cybersecurity specialists. The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that is not accessible through regular search engines like Google. We also notified federal law enforcement.” ” reads the data breach notification.

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Joseph Steinberg

MARCH 8, 2022

Thank you for not listening to your own cybersecurity experts when they told you to “ Stop hacking Russian websites – you are helping the Russians, not the Ukrainians.” You have probably done more than anyone other than myself to help Russia prepare for cyberwar. Thank you again, V Putin.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

T-Mobile confirmed being a victim of recent hacking campaigns linked to China-based threat actors targeting telecom companies. T-Mobile confirms it was hacked as part of a long-running cyber espionage campaign targeting Telco companies. and its allies for hacking activities in July. Wall Street Journal reported.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The FBI warned of a fresh wave of HiatusRAT malware attacks targeting internet-facing Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs. In March 2024, threat actors behind this campaign started targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. ” reads the PIN report.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Bloomberg first reported Moucka’s alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday. On May 2, 2024, Judische claimed on the fraud-focused Telegram channel Star Chat that they had hacked Santander Bank , one of the first known Snowflake victims. Image: [link] On October 30, Canadian authorities arrested Alexander Moucka, a.k.a.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Speaking to Reuters , a senior US official said the attack telecommunications infrastructure was broad and that the hacking was still ongoing. During transit the message remains encrypted the entire time it is moving across the internet. What that means is only the person sending it and the person receiving it can read it.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Evgenii Ptitsyn and others allegedly ran an international hacking scheme since November 2020, deploying Phobos ransomware to extort victims. If convicted, the man could face up to 20 years in prison for each wire fraud count, 10 years for each computer hacking charge, and 5 years for conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2025

The internet is filled with falsehoods. Last year a burger restaurant sent customers into a spin after sending them a fake order confirmation email, which led to customers fearing that their accounts had been hacked. But as a cybersecurity brand we want you to feel like you can trust usevery single day of the year.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added this vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The researchers scanned the Internet for Internet-facing Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy secure web gateway systems vulnerable to CVE-2024-21762. Version Affected Solution FortiOS 7.6

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Joseph Steinberg

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Believed to be among the many victims are the Treasury Department, the Commerce Department, and the cybersecurity firm, FireEye. Note: Classified networks are not connected to the Internet and their contents are likely to have remained secure.). The sooner we do so, the safer we will be.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2025

The Polish space agency POLSA announced it has disconnected its network from the internet following a cyberattack. The Polish space agency POLSA was forced to disconnect its network from the internet in response to a cyberattack. “A cybersecurity incident has occurred at POLSA. An analysis of the situation is ongoing.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Experts suspect the state-sponsored hackers have gathered extensive internet traffic and potentially compromised sensitive data. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.” and its allies for hacking activities in July. and around the globe.”

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