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Hackers Exploit Twitter Vulnerability to Exposes 5.4 Million Accounts
Hackers Exploit Twitter Vulnerability Twitter on Friday revealed that a now-patched zero-day bug was used to link phone…
Social Engineering: What You Need to Know to Stay Resilient
Social Engineering Security and IT teams are losing sleep as would-be intruders lay siege to the weakest link…
Cloudflare Thwarts Record DDoS Attack Peaking at 15 Million Requests Per Second
Cloudflare on Wednesday disclosed that it acted to mitigate a 15.3 million request-per-second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…
Germany Shuts Down Russian Hydra Darknet Market; Seizes $25 Million in Bitcoin
Russian Hydra Darknet Market Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), on Tuesday announced the official takedown…
North Korean Hackers Distributing Trojanized DeFi Wallet Apps to Steal Victims’ Crypto
Korean Hackers Steal Crypto The North Korean state-backed hacking crew, otherwise known as the Lazarus Group, has been attributed…
LAPSUS$ Claims to Have Breached IT Firm Globant; Leaks 70GB of Data
LAPSUS$ Breached Globant The LAPSUS$ data extortion gang announced their return on Telegram after a week-long “vacation,” leaking…
Google Issues Urgent Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability
Google Urgent Chrome Update Google on Friday shipped an out-of-band security update to address a high severity vulnerability…
Another Chinese Hacking Group Spotted Targeting Ukraine Amid Russia Invasion
Chinese Hacking Group Targeting Ukraine A Chinese-speaking threat actor called Scarab has been linked to a custom backdoor dubbed HeaderTip as part…
Researchers Trace LAPSUS$ Cyber Attacks to 16-Year-Old Hacker from England
Lapsus$ hacker England Authentication services provider Okta on Wednesday named Sitel as the third-party linked to a security incident experienced…
U.S. Government Warns Companies of Potential Russian Cyber Attacks
Russian Cyber Attacks The U.S. government on Monday once again cautioned of potential cyber-attacks from Russia in retaliation…
Ukraine Secret Service Arrests Hacker Helping Russian Invaders
Ukraine Arrests Hacker The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said it has detained a “hacker” who offered technical…
Massive DDoS Attack Knocked Israeli Government Websites Offline
DDoS Attack Israeli Websites A number of websites belonging to the Israeli government were felled in a distributed…
Hackers Abuse Mitel Devices to Amplify DDoS Attacks by 4 Billion Times
Hackers Amplify DDoS Attacks Threat actors have been observed abusing a high-impact reflection/amplification method to stage sustained distributed…
Iranian Hackers Targeting Turkey and Arabian Peninsula in New Malware Campaign
Iranian Hackers Targeting Turkey The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new swarm of…
Google: Russian Hackers Target Ukrainians, European Allies via Phishing Attacks
Russian Hackers Target Ukrainians via Phishing Attacks A broad range of threat actors, including Fancy Bear, Ghostwriter, and…
Google Buys Cybersecurity Firm Mandiant for $5.4 Billion
Google Buys Mandiant Google is officially buying threat intelligence and incident response company Mandiant in an all-cash deal…
Russia Releases List of IPs, Domains Attacking Its Infrastructure with DDoS Attacks
Russia DDoS Attacks As the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to escalate, the Russian government on Thursday released a massive list…
Hackers Try to Target European Officials to Get Info on Ukrainian Refugees, Supplies
Hackers target European Officials Details of a new nation-state-sponsored phishing campaign have been uncovered setting its sights on…
Russia-Ukraine War: Phishing, Malware and Hacker Groups Taking Sides
Russia Ukraine Cyberwar Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has warned of Belarusian state-sponsored hackers targeting its military…
New Android Banking Trojan Spreading via Google Play Store Targets Europeans
Android Banking Trojan Targets Europeans A new Android banking trojan with over 50,000 installations has been observed distributed…
Hackers Stole $1.7 Million Worth of NFTs from Users of OpenSea Marketplace
Hackers Stole NFTs from OpenSea Malicious actors took advantage of a smart contract upgrade process in the OpenSea…
4 Cloud Data Security Best Practices For All Businesses
Data Security Best Practices These days, businesses all around the world have come to depend on cloud platforms…
Facebook to Pay $90 Million to Old Privacy Violation Case
Facebook to Pay $90 Million Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit over…
‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Pirated Downloads Contain Crypto-Mining Malware
Spiderman No Way Home Malware Peter Parker might not be a mastermind cryptocurrency criminal, but the name Spiderman…
Top 5 Cybersecurity Myths — Exposed
Cybersecurity Myths Even with the growing awareness about cybersecurity, many myths about it are prevalent. These misconceptions can…
SaaS Security Threats for 2022
SaaS Security Threats 2022 With 2021 drawing to a close and many closing their plans and budgets for…
Why Holidays Put Your Company at Risk of CyberAttacks (And How to Take Precautions)
Holidays Cyberattacks It is a time when many are thinking of their families and loved ones, time off…
Log4J Vulnerability Leaves Much of the Internet at Risk
Critical Log4J Vulnerability The Apache Software Foundation has released fixes to contain an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting the widely-used Apache…
Hackers Steal Cryptocurrency Tokens from BitMart Exchange
BitMart Exchange Cryptocurrency Hack Cryptocurrency trading platform BitMart has disclosed a “large-scale security breach” that it blamed on…
Malicious KMSPico Windows Activator Steals Cryptocurrency Wallets from Users
KMSPico Windows Activator Users looking to activate Windows without using a digital license or a product key are…