Jackson County, a Missouri jurisdiction home to over 715,000 residents, fell victim to a ransomware attack that disrupted its tax payment system and online services, including property registration, marriage license issuance, and inmate searches....
A recent comprehensive study conducted by specialists at Check Point has illuminated the shadowy underbelly of cyberspace, uncovering the operations and identities of malefactors wielding the malicious software Agent Tesla. Agent Tesla is an...
A cybercriminal group known as TA558 has orchestrated a vast phishing campaign aimed at a wide array of industries across Latin America, with the intent of disseminating the malicious software Venom RAT. The primary...
Players of the multiplayer online shooter Call of Duty recently encountered malicious hacking activity aimed at stealing players’ credentials. Malefactors, employing specialized malicious software, are filching passwords for gaming accounts and cryptocurrency wallets. The...
Cisco has published guidelines for its clients on safeguarding against password brute-force attacks targeting Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) services configured on Cisco Secure Firewall devices. The company describes the recently detected malicious activity as...
This month, the NHS Dumfries & Galloway, a division of the National Health Service of Great Britain servicing the Dumfries and Galloway region in Scotland, encountered a severe cyberattack for which the ransomware group...
In a recent report by Google’s cyber experts, it was revealed that the exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities surged by 50% in 2023, reaching a total of 97 incidents, up from 62 in the previous...
CyberArk specialists report that malefactors are mastering new methodologies to access users’ data without the necessity for passwords or multifactor authentication requests. A prevalent technique involves intercepting web sessions through the theft of cookie...
Netcraft has unveiled the emergence of a new phishing service named Darcula, which manipulates over 20,000 domains to mimic popular brands, aiming to pilfer Android and iPhone users’ credentials across more than 100 countries....
Specialists at ReversingLabs have uncovered a suspicious package within the NuGet package manager, ostensibly targeting developers who utilize tools from the Chinese company Bozhon Precision Industry Technology, which specializes in the production of industrial...
Apple users have encountered a cunning phishing scheme that exploits a vulnerability in the password reset function. Victims find their devices bombarded with such an overwhelming number of system notifications that the smartphone becomes...
On March 25th, the United Kingdom and the United States formally accused China of cyberattacks on democratic institutions, linking Chinese intelligence services to incidents at the Electoral Commission in 2021 and attempting to hack...
Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging the new phishing platform Tycoon 2FA to compromise Microsoft 365 and Gmail accounts, circumventing two-factor authentication. This trend was identified by experts at Sekoia. Tycoon 2FA was discovered in October...
The popular service Top.gg, aiding users in finding servers and bots for Discord, suffered from a supply chain attack. Malefactors injected malicious code into Python packages used by bot developers, evidently aiming to steal...
The cybersecurity firm Proofpoint has uncovered a new phishing campaign orchestrated by the Iranian faction MuddyWater. This operation disseminates legitimate remote monitoring and management software, Atera, among Israeli organizations within the global manufacturing, technology,...
Mandiant specialists report that Chinese hackers, identified as UNC5174, are exploiting vulnerabilities in widely-used products to disseminate malicious software capable of installing additional backdoors on compromised Linux hosts. The attacks orchestrated by UNC5174 have...
