Category: Information Security
In 2023, the United States food and agriculture sector encountered no fewer than 167 ransomware attacks, ranking it as the seventh most vulnerable among all industries in the country, according to the inaugural annual...
The developers of PuTTY are issuing a warning about a critical vulnerability affecting versions 0.68 to 0.80, which could potentially allow an attacker to completely reconstruct private NIST-P521 keys. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-31497,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
The latest study by Kaspersky Lab delves into the ramifications of the LockBit 3.0 builder leak that occurred in 2022. This event significantly empowered cybercriminals to create highly customizable malicious software versions, enhancing the...
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...
Recently, cybersecurity experts successfully thwarted an attempt to hack a project on the OpenJS platform, which bears a striking resemblance to a recent incident involving a backdoor in the XZ Utils compression utility. On...
A team of cybersecurity experts has detected a resurgence of a cyberespionage campaign targeting users in South Asia. The objective of these attacks is to deploy a new version of the malicious software LightSpy,...
Yubico, the developer of the widely-used YubiKey authentication devices, has alerted Windows users to a significant vulnerability in its software. According to the company’s official statement, this vulnerability could lead to elevated privileges on...
Approximately six years ago, vulnerabilities were discovered that affected the majority of Intel and AMD processors. Known as Spectre and Meltdown, these flaws could be exploited to steal sensitive data from compromised systems. In...