The UK Says a Huge Payroll Data Breach by a ‘Malign Actor’ Has Exposed Details of Military Personnel
The UK Ministry of Defense said a breach at a third-party payroll system exposed as many as 272,000 armed forces personnel and veterans.
Safari Flaw Can Expose iPhone Users in the EU to Tracking
Apple's implementation of installing marketplace apps from Safari is heavily flawed and can allow a malicious marketplace to track users across websites
Big Vulnerabilities in Next-Gen BIG-IP
Our ongoing research has identified remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in F5’s Next Central Manager that can give attackers full administrative control of the device, and subsequently allow attackers to create accounts on any F5 assets managed by the Next Central Manager. These attacker-controlled accounts would not be visible from the Next Central Manager itself, enabling ongoing malicious persistence within the environment. At the time of writing, we have not seen any indication that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild.
Zscaler takes "test environment" offline after rumors of a breach
Zscaler says that they discovered an exposed
APT trends report Q1 2024
For more than six years, the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity. These summaries are based on our threat intelligence research. They provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed in greater detail in our private APT reports. They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of.
Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’
More than 800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China.
UK confirms Ministry of Defence payroll data exposed in data breach
The UK Government confirmed today that a threat actor recently breached the country's Ministry of Defence and gained access to part of the Armed Forces payment network.
What we learned from the indictment of LockBit’s mastermind
Five takeaways from the indictment of Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, the hacker who U.S. and U.K. authorities accuse of being the mastermind of the LockBit ransomware gang.
Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain
Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.
POLITICO Europe
Hackers linked to Beijing’s security services targeted European politicians to gather sensitive data.
CVE-2024-3661: TunnelVision - How Attackers Can Decloak Routing-Based VPNs For a Total VPN Leak — Leviathan Security Group - Penetration Testing, Security Assessment, Risk Advisory
We discovered a fundamental design problem in VPNs and we're calling it TunnelVision. This problem lets someone see what you're doing online, even if you think you're safely using a VPN.
These Dangerous Scammers Don’t Even Bother to Hide Their Crimes
“Yahoo Boy” cybercriminals are openly running dozens of scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and more.
Cyber: Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on continued malicious behaviour in cyberspace by the Russian Federation - Consilium
The EU issued a statement strongly condemning the malicious cyber campaign conducted by the Russia-controlled Advanced Persistent Threat Actor 28 (APT28) against Germany and Czechia.
Statement of the MFA on the Cyberattacks Carried by Russian Actor APT28 on Czechia |
Czechia jointly with Germany, the European Union, NATO and international partners strongly condemns activities of the Russian state-controlled actor APT28, who has been conducting a long-term cyber espionage campaign in European countries. APT28 is associated with Russian military intelligence service GRU.
Watch out for tech support scams lurking in sponsored search results
Our researchers found fake sponsored search results that lead consumers to a typical fake Microsoft alert site set up by tech support scammers.
Gird your loins, there’s a new pre-auth RCE in Ivanti boxes landing
"Code execution in 0 seconds (3 seconds to be more accurate), no limitation, no authentication..."
“Dirty stream” attack: Discovering and mitigating a common vulnerability pattern in Android apps
Microsoft discovered a vulnerability pattern in multiple popular Android applications that could enable a malicious application to overwrite files in the vulnerable application’s internal data storage directory, which could lead to arbitrary code execution and token theft, among other impacts. We have shared our findings with Google’s Android Application Security Research team, as well as the developers of apps found vulnerable to this issue. We anticipate that the vulnerability pattern could be found in other applications. We’re sharing this research more broadly so developers and publishers can check their apps for similar issues, fix as appropriate, and prevent them from being introduced into new apps or releases.
Google shares update on passkeys and new ways to protect accounts
For World Password Day, we’re sharing updates to passkeys across our products and sharing more ways we’re keeping people safe online.
Marriott admits it falsely claimed for five years it was using encryption during 2018 breach | CSO Online
Marriot revealed in a court case around a massive 2018 data breach that it had been using secure hash algorithm 1 and not the much more secure AES-1 encryption as it had earlier maintained.
Analysis of TargetCompany's Attacks Against MS-SQL Servers (Mallox, BlueSky Ransomware)
While monitoring attacks targeting MS-SQL servers, AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) recently identified cases of the TargetCompany ransomware group installing the Mallox ransomware. The TargetCompany ransomware group primarily targets improperly managed MS-SQL servers to install the Mallox ransomware. While these attacks have been ongoing for several years, here we will outline the correlation between the newly identified malware and previous attack cases involving the distribution of the Tor2Mine CoinMiner and BlueSky ransomware.
New “Goldoon” Botnet Targeting D-Link Devices
FortiGuard Labs discovered the new botnet “Goldoon” targeting D-Link devices through related vulnerability CVE-2015-2051.
Operation PANDORA shuts down 12 phone fraud call centres
Operation PANDORA started with a bank teller in Freiburg, Germany. When in December 2023 a customer asked to withdraw over EUR 100 000 in cash, the bank teller grew suspicious and quickly learned the customer had fallen victim to a ‘fake police officer scam’. He informed the real police, which prevented the victim from handing the money over to the...
Op Pandora puts suspected phone fraudsters back in the box
Cops prevented crims from bilking victims out of more than €10m - but couldn't stop crime against art
Eight Arms to Hold You: The Cuttlefish Malware
Executive Summary: The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies is tracking a malware platform we’ve named Cuttlefish, that targets networking equipment, specifically enterprise-grade small office/home office (SOHO) routers. This malware is modular, designed primarily to steal authentication material found in web requests that transit the router from the adjacent local area network (LAN). A
Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office routers everywhere
How and why nation-state hackers and cybercriminals coexist in the same router botnet.
macOS Adload | Prolific Adware Pivots Just Days After Apple’s XProtect Clampdown
Learn about the latest Adload adware variants, written in Go and intended to bypass Apple's recent XProtect updates.
French hospital CHC-SV refuses to pay LockBit extortion demand
The Hôpital de Cannes - Simone Veil (CHC-SV) in France announced it received a ransom demand from the Lockbit 3.0 ransomware gang, saying they refuse to pay the ransom.
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Microsoft needs to win back trust
Microsoft has faced a series of security issues in recent years. Now, the company is trying to win back trust and focus on security as a top priority.
Unveiling the depths of residential proxies providers
Analysts from Sekoia.io and Orange Cyberdefense delve into the phenomenon of RESIP, explore the actual market landscape, which is composed of multiple shady providers, and explain how cyber threat actors abuse or even directly provide such services.
Nearly 20% of Docker Hub Repositories Spread Malware & Phishing Scams
Attackers are using Docker Hub for malicious campaigns of various types, including spreading malware, phishing and scams. Read the analysis of 3 malware campaigns.