Category: Cyber Security

Brazil Bank Hack ICC Cyberattack CVE-2024-21410

Finnish Hacker Faces Justice for Vastaamo Attack

Aleksanteri Kivimäki, a 26-year-old hacker, has been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. Local media reported this, citing a court decision related to the breach of the private psychotherapeutic center Vastaamo in Helsinki. The court...

FBI monitor facebook

Ex-NSA Employee Gets 22 Years for Espionage

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in prison for attempting espionage on behalf of a foreign state. FBI Director Christopher Wray stated that this sentence should serve...

Lorenz Group

Cybersecurity Breach Forces London Drugs Closures

The Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs has closed all its retail stores following the discovery of a cybersecurity incident. The event, which affected the company’s systems, occurred on April 28. In response, the company...

Muddling Meerkat

Ghost in the DNS: Muddling Meerkat Evades Detection

The hacker group, dubbed Muddling Meerkat by security researchers, has been utilizing sophisticated Domain Name System (DNS) methodologies to conduct espionage activities across global networks since October 2019. According to Infoblox, a firm specializing...

CVE-2024-20353

Cisco Zero-Days Exploited in State-Sponsored Breach

Network security measures such as firewalls are designed to safeguard corporate networks from breaches. However, it turns out that cybercriminals are increasingly turning these systems against their owners, using them as springboards to infiltrate...

Nespresso Phishing Attack

Phishing Attack Lurks in Nespresso Domain

Cybersecurity researchers from Perception Point recently discovered a vulnerability on the Nespresso coffee machine and capsule manufacturer’s website, which scammers actively exploit to redirect users to malicious sites. The vulnerability, related to open redirection,...

GuptiMiner

eScan Update Delivers Backdoors & Cryptominers

North Korean hackers exploited the eScan antivirus update mechanism to embed backdoors into corporate networks and disseminate cryptocurrency miners using the malicious software, GuptiMiner. Cybersecurity firm Avast reports that the perpetrators conducted an adversary-in-the-middle...

Lazarus Group

North Korea Targets S.Korean Defense Tech

The South Korean police have issued a warning about cyberattacks by North Korean hacker groups targeting defense industry enterprises to steal valuable technological information. The police have documented several instances of successful breaches of...