23 Jun

Typhoon-like gang slinging TLS certificate ‘signed’ by the Los Angeles Police Department

A stealthy, ongoing campaign to gain long-term access to networks bears all the markings of intrusions conducted by China’s ‘Typhoon’ crews and has infected at

Author rabih
23 Jun

Iran cyberattacks against US biz more likely following air strikes

The US Department of Homeland Security has warned American businesses to guard their networks against Iranian government-sponsored cyberattacks along with “low-level” digital intrusions by pro-Iran

Author rabih
23 Jun

Second attack on McLaren Health Care in a year affects 743k people

McLaren Health Care is in the process of writing to 743,131 individuals now that it fully understands the impact of its July 2024 cyberattack. The

Author rabih
23 Jun

Experts count staggering costs incurred by UK retail amid cyberattack hell

Britain’s Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) estimates the total cost of the cyberattacks that crippled major UK retail organizations recently could be in the region of

Author rabih
23 Jun

Former US Army Sergeant pleads guilty after amateurish attempt at selling secrets to China

Infosec in brief A former US Army sergeant has admitted he attempted to sell classified data to China. Joseph Daniel Schmidt last Friday pled guilty

Author rabih
20 Jun

Netflix, Apple, BofA websites hijacked with fake help-desk numbers

Scammers are hijacking the search results of people needing 24/7 support from Apple, Bank of America, Facebook, HP, Microsoft, Netflix, and PayPal in an attempt

Author rabih
20 Jun

Looks like Aflac is the latest insurance giant snagged in Scattered Spider’s web

Aflac is the latest insurance company to disclose a security breach following a string of others earlier this week, all of which appear to be

Author rabih
20 Jun

Qilin ransomware top dogs treat their minions to on-call lawyers for fierier negotiations

The latest marketing ploy from the ransomware crooks behind the Qilin operation involves offering affiliates access to a crack team of lawyers to ramp up

Author rabih
20 Jun

Attack on Oxford City Council exposes 21 years of election worker data

Oxford City Council says a cyberattack earlier this month resulted in 21 years of data being compromised. It said “some historic data on legacy systems”

Author rabih
19 Jun

Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam ‘vishing’ schemes

Researchers based in Israel and India have developed a defense against automated call scams. ASRJam is a speech recognition jamming system that uses a sound

Author rabih
19 Jun

Uncle Sam seeks time in tower dump data grab case after judge calls it ‘unconstitutional’

The United States is requesting [PDF] a month-long extension to the deadline for its final decision regarding an appeal against a judge’s ruling that obtaining

Author rabih
19 Jun

Glazed and confused: Hole lotta highly sensitive data nicked from Krispy Kreme

Krispy Kreme finally revealed the number of people affected by its November cyberattack, and it’s easy to see why analyzing the incident took the well-resourced

Author rabih
19 Jun

UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash

Cybersecurity experts have started a formal review into the UK cybersecurity market, at the government’s request, to identify future growth opportunities as it looks to

Author rabih
19 Jun

Sneaky Serpentine#Cloud slithers through Cloudflare tunnels to inject orgs with Python-based malware

A sneaky malware campaign slithers through Cloudflare tunnel subdomains to execute in-memory malicious code and give unknown attackers long-term access to pwned machines. Securonix threat

Author rabih
19 Jun

Iran’s internet goes offline for hours amid claims of ‘enemy abuse’

The government of Iran appears to have shut down the internet within its borders, perhaps in response to Israel-linked cyberattacks. Internet watchers at CloudFlare and

Author rabih
18 Jun

Minecraft cheaters never win … but they may get malware

Trojanized Minecraft cheat tools hosted on GitHub have secretly installed stealers that siphon credentials, crypto wallets, and other sensitive data when executed by players. According

Author rabih
18 Jun

Asana’s cutting-edge AI feature ran into a little data leakage problem

Asana has fixed a bug in its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that could have allowed users to view other organizations’ data, and the experimental

Author rabih
18 Jun

Veeam patches third critical RCE bug in Backup & Replication in space of a year

Veeam Backup & Replication users are urged to apply the latest patches that fix another critical bug leading to remote code execution (RCE) on backup

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