A new denial-of-service attack dubbed ‘Loop DoS’ targeting application layer protocols can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large volumes of traffic. Devised by researchers at the CISPA Helmholtz-Center for Information Security, the attack uses…
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Atlassian addressed multiple vulnerabilities in its Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, and Jira products. The most severe vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1597 (CVSS score of 10), is a SQL injection flaw that impacts the org.postgresql:postgresql third-party dependency of Bamboo Data Center…
New and sophisticated tax phishing scams are targeting taxpayers, warns Microsoft. These scams impersonate trusted sources and use urgency tactics to steal personal and financial data. Taxpayers beware! Phishing scams are on the rise again as tax season heats up. Microsoft Threat Intelligence has is…
Threat actors are attempting to compromise Social Security numbers with a tax phishing attack targeting small business owners and self-employed filers.Worryingly, the social engineering scammers are likely operating with little more than a cheap email list of self-employed US residents, according to…
Security researchers have warned of a slew of fake obituaries designed to make money for their creators by redirecting visitors to adult entertainment sites and initiating antivirus (AV) popups.Secureworks claimed in a new blog post that the scammers monitor Google search trends to identify interest…
ESET Research has recorded a considerable increase in AceCryptor attacks, with detections tripling between the first and second halves of 2023. In recent months, researchers registered a significant change in how AceCryptor is used, namely that the attackers spreading Rescoms (also known as Remcos)…
Hackers hijacked the official contact email for the Belgian Grand Prix event and used it to lure fans to a fake website promising a €50 gift voucher. The Spa Gran Prix is a Formula 1 World Championship race held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Stavelot, Belgium. This year, the race…
The federal government’s HR shop is pitching a legislative proposal to give federal agencies new authorities and flexibilities in how they hire and pay cybersecurity workers to members of Congress, but so far no member has stepped up to sponsor the bill.The package is meant to allow agencies across…
Ukrainian cyber police have arrested three men suspected of hijacking the accounts of over 100 million internet users.The trio, aged between 20 and 40, were arrested by police in the country’s Kharkiv region under the guidance of the regional prosecutor’s office. Operating as part of a cybercrime gr…
According to the UAE Cybersecurity Council, in 2023, the UAE repelled over 50,000 cyberattacks daily. These findings, highlighted in a report from Frost & Sullivan (F&S), show the exponential growth of the region’s cybersecurity landscape – and serve as a sobering reminder of the rising thre…
An emerging and unsophisticated threat actor is spreading various types of malware with accounting report lures in a phishing campaign that relies on readily available malicious and legitimate software for its success.The active phishing campaign by an actor tracked as Fluffy Wolf demonstrates how e…
A cyberattacker and extortionist of a medical center has pleaded guilty to federal computer fraud and abuse charges in the US. Robert Purbeck, adopting the aliases “Lifelock” and “Studmaster” during his time as a cybercriminal, according to the Department of Justice (DoJ), stole personal data belong…
An Iran-linked hacking group claims to have breached the computer network of a sensitive Israeli nuclear installation in an incident declared by the ‘Anonymous’ hackers as a protest against the war in Gaza. The hackers claim to have stolen and published thousands of documents — including PDFs, email…
In the past few years, an increasing number of tech companies, organizations, and even governments have been working on one of the next big things in the tech world: successfully building quantum computers. These actors see a lot of potential in the technology. Quantum computing spreads across a wid…
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan warned governors today that hackers are “striking” critical infrastructure across the country’s water sector. In a joint letter sent on Tuesday, they asked for the governors’ support to…