19 Jul

North Korea likely behind takedown of Indian crypto exchange WazirX

Indian crypto exchange WazirX has revealed it lost virtual assets valued at over $230 million after a cyber attack that has since been linked to

Author rabih
19 Jul

Beijing’s attack gang Volt Typhoon was a false flag inside job conspiracy: China

China has asserted that the Volt Typhoon gang, which Five Eyes nations accuse of being a Beijing-backed attacker that targets critical infrastructure, was in fact

Author rabih
18 Jul

Judge mostly drags SEC’s lawsuit against SolarWinds into the recycling bin

A judge has mostly thrown out a lawsuit brought by America’s financial watchdog that accused SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer of misleading investors about

Author rabih
18 Jul

Kaspersky challenges US government to put up or shut up about Kremlin ties

Kaspersky has hit back after the US government banned its products – by proposing an independent verification that its software is above board and not

Author rabih
18 Jul

Russia’s FIN7 is peddling its EDR-nerfing malware to ransomware gangs

Prolific Russian cybercrime syndicate FIN7 is using various pseudonyms to sell its custom security solution-disabling malware to different ransomware gangs. AvNeutralizer malware was previously thought

Author rabih
18 Jul

Maximum-severity Cisco vulnerability allows attackers to change admin passwords

Cisco just dropped a patch for a maximum-severity vulnerability that allows attackers to change the password of any user, including admins. Tracked as CVE-2024-20419, the

Author rabih
18 Jul

HotPage: Story of a signed, vulnerable, ad-injecting driver

Malware research involves studying threat actor TTPs, mapping infrastructure, analyzing novel techniques… And while most of these investigations build on existing research, sometimes they start

Author rabih
18 Jul

Firms skip security reviews of major app updates about half the time

Cyber security workers only review major updates to software applications only 54 percent of the time, according to a poll of tech managers. That figure

Author rabih
18 Jul

Release the hounds! Securing datacenters may soon need sniffer dogs

Sniffer dogs may soon become a useful means of improving physical security in datacenters, as increasing numbers of people are adopting implants like NFC chips

Author rabih
17 Jul

Merged Exabeam and LogRhythm cut jobs, face lawsuit

Exabeam and LogRhythm – a pair of cyber security firms – finalized their merger on Wednesday, an occasion The Register understands was marked by swift

Author rabih
17 Jul

Kaspersky gives US customers six months of free updates as a parting gift

Embattled Russian infosec shop Kaspersky is giving US customers six months of security updates for free as a parting gift as Uncle Sam kicks the

Author rabih
17 Jul

Ransomware continues to pile on costs for critical infrastructure victims

Costs associated with ransomware attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) organizations skyrocketed in the past year. According to Sophos’ latest figures, released today, the median

Author rabih
17 Jul

London council accuses watchdog of ‘exaggerating’ danger of 2020 raid on residents’ data

London’s inner city district of Hackney says the UK’s data protection watchdog has misunderstood and “exaggerated” details surrounding a ransomware attack on its systems in

Author rabih
17 Jul

Craig Wright admits he isn’t the inventor of Bitcoin after High Court judgment in UK

Australian Craig Wright has finally admitted he is not the inventor of Bitcoin after losing several cases in the High Court of England and Wales,

Author rabih
17 Jul

Iran’s MuddyWater phishes Israeli orgs with custom BugSleep backdoor

MuddyWater, an Iranian government-backed cyber espionage crew, has upgraded its malware with a custom backdoor, which it’s used to target Israeli organizations. The gang has

Author rabih
16 Jul

Japanese space agency spotted zero-day attacks while cleaning up raid on M365

The Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) discovered it was under attack using zero-day exploits while working with Microsoft to probe a 2023 cyberattack on its

Author rabih
16 Jul

Privacy warriors gripe to UK watchdog about Meta harvesting user data to train AI

A UK data rights campaign group has launched a complaint with the data law regulator against Meta’s change of privacy policy which allows it to

Author rabih
16 Jul

Cyber-crime super-crew Scattered Spider falls in love with RansomHub and Qilin

The Scattered Spider cybercrime group is now using RansomHub and Qilin ransomware variants in its attacks, illustrating a possible power shift among hacking groups. This

Author rabih
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