Category: Cyber Security

Earth Hundun

Earth Hundun’s Waterbear Rampage Targets Asia-Pacific

A recently uncovered cyberattack has impacted the technological, scientific, and governmental sectors across the Asia-Pacific region. The attack has been attributed to the hacker group BlackTech, known for its sophisticated methods of obfuscating its...

MITRE hacked

MITRE Hacked: State-Sponsored Breach Exploits Zero-Days

The MITRE Corporation, a non-profit organization, has disclosed that in January 2024, a sophisticated, state-sponsored hacker group infiltrated its systems by chaining together two zero-day exploits in the Ivanti VPN. The incident was initially...

New York Times Sues OpenAI

GPT-4: AI Model Turned Exploit Expert

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently published a study demonstrating that OpenAI’s artificial intelligence model, GPT-4, is capable of independently exploiting vulnerabilities in real systems once it receives detailed descriptions of...

WormGPT Volt Typhoon group

Global Brute-Force Attacks Spike: Cisco Issues Warning

International cybersecurity is under threat following a discovery by Cisco Talos experts of a large-scale credential stuffing campaign targeting VPN and SSH services of companies including Cisco, CheckPoint, Fortinet, SonicWall, and Ubiquiti. The campaign...

Muddled Libra

Cloud Under Siege: Muddled Libra Shifts Tactics

Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 reports that the cybercriminal group Muddled Libra is actively targeting cloud applications and cloud service providers in a bid to steal confidential data. According to the report, the attackers...

TA558

TA558 Attacks Surge: 320+ Organizations Targeted

Recently, the cybercriminal group TA558 has significantly increased its malicious activities, attacking organizations worldwide with various types of malware. Security specialists from Positive Technologies have identified over 320 attacks carried out by this group....

Omni Hotels cyberattack

Omni Hotels Hacked: Daixin Gang Demands Ransom

The cybercriminal group Daixin Team has claimed responsibility for the recent attack on the Omni Hotels & Resorts network and threatens to release confidential customer information unless a ransom is paid. Omni Hotels operates...

Salt Typhoon Kansas State University cyberattack

Third-Party Breach Exposes Cisco Duo MFA Data

A third-party company responsible for the telecommunication services used in Cisco Duo’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) system was subjected to a cyberattack employing social engineering tactics. Consequently, Cisco has urged its clients to exercise extreme...