The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined the largest American telecommunications companies nearly $200 million for disseminating customer location data without their consent. Penalties were imposed on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon after Notices...
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...
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language, potentially exposing organizations using this popular open-source language to software supply chain attacks. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2024-27322, has been rated 8.8 out of...
In one of the United States’ largest medical organizations, Kaiser Permanente, a cyber incident resulted in the compromise of personal data for approximately 13.4 million users. Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente provides healthcare services...
In February, a high-profile cyberattack on Change Healthcare caused significant disruptions in the operations of US medical facilities. Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group (the parent company of Change Healthcare), revealed that the attack...
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...
An international team of scientists, led by specialists from the University of California, San Diego, has identified a new type of attack targeting the branch prediction component at the microarchitectural level. The findings, which...
The Czech cybersecurity firm Avast has been fined $14.8 million for violating the GDPR. The fine was imposed by the Czech Office for Personal Data Protection (ÚOOÚ) following an investigation into the activities of...
In a recent campaign involving the dissemination of the AgentTesla malware, as meticulously analyzed by experts at SonicWall, perpetrators employed VBA macros in Word documents to conduct a fileless injection attack, where the malicious...
Researchers from Sekoia have revealed alarming details about the malicious worm PlugX, which, having been abandoned by its creators many years ago, continues to autonomously spread and infect millions of computers worldwide. PlugX, believed...
The Lazarus Group, a notorious hacking collective traditionally associated with North Korea, utilized enticing job offers to deliver a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) known as Kaolin RAT during attacks targeting individuals in Asia...
Researchers have uncovered a hacking campaign known as DEV#POPPER, targeting software developers. The perpetrators disguise themselves as employers and distribute fictitious job offers to IT specialists. Their true intent is to implant a dangerous...
