Chinese video surveillance equipment manufacturer Hikvision has announced patches for two vulnerabilities in its security management system HikCentral Professional. The most important of these flaws is CVE-2024-25063, a high-severity bug that could lead to unauthorized access to certain URLs. The bu…
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GitHub and cyberattackers are waging a quiet, automated war over malicious repos.
In the realm of cybersecurity, understanding the various data types within an infrastructure is essential for effective defense and management. These data types serve as the foundation for identifying, analyzing, and responding to potential threats. Let’s delve into the four critical data types: tra…
The Linux Foundation last week announced the launch of an open source digital financial transaction monitoring platform. The new platform, Tazama, is meant to provide powerful, scalable, and cost-effective monitoring of digital payments, to make advanced financial monitoring more broadly available,…
Pharmacies and hospitals nationwide are experiencing disruptions as a result of ransomware attacks, which leaves patients with difficulties filling prescriptions or obtaining medical care. UnitedHealth Group, a healthcare provider in the United States, announced on Thursday that it had been hacked b…
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) employees and cryptocurrency platforms have been targeted in mobile device phishing attacks employing a novel and advanced kit, cybersecurity firm Lookout warns. Using the new kit, attackers create carbon copies of single sign-on (SSO) pages that trick victims…
A team of researchers has developed malware designed to target modern programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in an effort to demonstrate that remote Stuxnet-style attacks can be launched against such industrial control systems (ICS). The researchers are from the Georgia Institute of Technology and th…
A company’s lifecycle stage, size, and state have a significant impact on its security needs, policies, and priorities. This is particularly true for modern mid-market companies that are either experiencing or have experienced rapid growth. As requirements and tasks continue to accumulate and malicious actors remain active around the clock, budgets are often stagnant at best. Yet, it is crucial
Threat actors stole sensitive and confidential data from the telecom giant Chunghwa Telecom Company, revealed the Ministry of National Defense. Chunghwa Telecom Company, Ltd. (literally Chinese Telecom Company) is the largest integrated telecom service provider in Taiwan, and the incumbent local exchange carrier of PSTN, Mobile, and broadband services in the country. Threat actors stole […]
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned of Phobos ransomware attacks targeting government and critical infrastructure entities, outlining the various tactics and techniques the threat actors have adopted to deploy the file-encrypting malware.
“Structured as a ransomware as a service (RaaS) model, Phobos ransomware actors have targeted entities including municipal and
Have you or anyone near you became a victim of online scamming? This article will introduce you to online scams, how the waves of scammers target their victims and in which ways, and what damage they inflict. This article’s contents are based on AhnLab’s in-house data as well as externally available…
In a shocking development, the notorious BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang has stepped forward to claim responsibility for a devastating cyberattack on Optum, a subsidiary of the healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group (UHG). This malicious breach has triggered an ongoing outage that is currently wre…
The Information reported that Facebook’s parent company, Meta, plans to launch Llama 3, a new AI language model, in July. As part of Meta’s attempts to enhance its large language models (LLMs), the open-source LLM was designed to offer more comprehensive responses to contentious queries. In ord…
Security researcher HaxRob discovered a previously unknown Linux backdoor named GTPDOOR, designed for covert operations within mobile carrier networks. […]
Starting next month, Microsoft nag screens pushing Windows 11 will also show up on non-managed enterprise devices running Windows 10 Pro and Pro Workstation. […]