Kansas State University, a prominent public research institution offering 65 master’s and 45 doctoral programs, has encountered a significant cyber incident. The university, home to approximately 20,000 students and 1,400 academic staff, reported disruptions...
A new campaign targeting vulnerable Docker services is deploying the XMRig miner and the 9hits application, enabling a dual monetization strategy on compromised hosts. This marks the first documented instance of the 9Hits application...
This week, Swiss websites encountered a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. According to the Swiss National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC), these assaults temporarily disrupted access to several websites managed by the Federal...
In a recent report by Huntress, it was revealed that cybercriminals are once again employing TeamViewer, a legitimate remote access tool, for initial penetration into corporate devices and attempts to deploy ransomware. The first...
Two menacing new vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-44452, and CVE-2023-51698, have been unmasked within the Linux universe. This critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw, discovered by security researcher Febin Mon Saji, targets unsuspecting users of popular Linux...
Conor Fitzpatrick, a 21-year-old New York resident known online as “Pompompurin,” previously the administrator of the BreachForums, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Fitzpatrick was arrested by the FBI in March 2023...
Pegasus is considered one of the most powerful spyware programs available today, with a far more comprehensive data-stealing capability than other spyware programs, including the ability to collect information on everything from high-value data...
A team of researchers from the Polish company STM Cyber uncovered serious vulnerabilities in payment terminals manufactured by the Chinese firm PAX. These vulnerabilities enable cybercriminals to execute arbitrary code on PoS terminals. The...
According to a recent study by Zimperium, 29 malware families have targeted 1,800 banking apps in 61 countries in 2023. This is nearly 3 times more than in 2022 when 10 malware families targeted...
The Beijing-based company Qianxin Xlabs has issued a warning that since 2015, the hacker group Bigpanzi has been infecting Android TVs and eCos set-top boxes with malware across the globe. It is believed that...
Recently, GitHub rectified a vulnerability, CVE-2024-0200, in its Enterprise Server. This flaw, associated with Unsafe Reflection, permitted malefactors to execute remote code on unprotected servers. It granted access to the environment variables of production...
Specialists at Kaspersky Lab have shared their experience in analyzing iOS devices infected with the Pegasus spyware developed by the Israeli company NSO Group. It was found that malicious software leaves traces in the...
The development of artificial intelligence systems is gaining momentum. An increasing number of companies are turning to Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for the essential computational power needed to operate large language models and swiftly...
Researchers from the French company Quarkslab have discovered a multitude of serious vulnerabilities in Tianocore EDK II, an open implementation of the UEFI specification, which could be exploited for remote code execution. Nine vulnerabilities,...
Malicious actors exploit vulnerabilities, known for several years, to deploy the Androxgh0st malware and create a botnet aimed at stealing cloud-based credentials. This has been reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and...
Citrix emphatically advises its users to promptly install patches on Netscaler ADC and Netscaler Gateway devices connected to the internet, to avert attacks associated with two newly exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. These security flaws, designated...
