Electronic Arts has postponed the North American (NA) finals of the ongoing Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) after hackers compromised players mid-match during the tournament.
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In a brief update posted to social media on Thursday evening, the city said its offices “remain open and staff is committed to serving the public despite a network disruption first announced a week ago.”
The critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-25153 with a CVSS score of 9.8, allows remote attackers to upload files outside the intended directory and execute arbitrary code.
In an increasingly fragmented geopolitical landscape, influenced by the war in Ukraine and rising tensions in the Middle East, the aerospace sector’s designation as critical infrastructure has become a double-edged sword.
Wiper attacks have been a go-to for Russian attacks on Ukrainian government and private-sector targets in the past two years, and the latest version of the software used to target Viasat shows how Russian hacking groups are evolving their tools.
The wide geographic distribution of vulnerable SSL VPNs highlights the extensive attack surface for the critical vulnerability, with Asia having the highest number of exposed appliances.
Russian hackers launched an electronic warfare attack that disabled the GPS and communications systems of UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps’ RAF Dassault Falcon 900 jet while flying near Kaliningrad.
An announcement published late last week on the firm’s news portal discloses a major cybersecurity incident that has compromised systems and data, including sensitive information of customers.
Historical domain registration records suggest that the founder of Onerep, Dimitri Shelest, has been involved in numerous people-search services, indicating potential conflicts of interest.
The victims were lured into slavery with false job offers and were forced to adopt fake identities to extract money from their victims through promises of cryptocurrency wins, investments, and romance.
Researchers have demonstrated a new acoustic side-channel attack on keyboards that can deduce user input based on their typing patterns, even in poor conditions, such as environments with noise.
MediaWorks, a company based in New Zealand, says it is investigating an alleged security incident after a hacker claimed to have stolen the data of just over 2.4 million people and began targeting individuals for extortion payments.
Moldovan national Sandu Boris Diaconu was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for operating the E-Root cybercrime marketplace, which facilitated the sale of compromised computer credentials.
The leaked data includes customers’ sensitive personal information such as names, addresses, mobile phone numbers, encrypted dates of birth, and encrypted Social Security numbers.
Concerns are especially high in the public sector, with 87% worrying about employee email and social media lapses damaging their institutions, according to a Mimecast report.