Nov 04, 2024The Hacker NewsWeekly Recap / Cybersecurity This week was a total digital dumpster fire! Hackers were like, “Let’s cause some chaos!” and went after everything from our browsers to those fancy cameras that zoom and spin. (You know,…
A Nigerian man has been sentenced to more than 26 years in a US federal prison for a real estate phishing scam campaign that resulted in approximately $12m in losses for victims. Kolade Akinwale Ojelade, a 34-year-old Nigerian national living…
Nov 04, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cyber Threat Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed six security flaws in the Ollama artificial intelligence (AI) framework that could be exploited by a malicious actor to perform various actions, including denial-of-service, model poisoning, and model theft.…
US government agencies have accused Russian actors of being behind a faked video purporting to show Haitian’s illegally voting in multiple counties in the state of Georgia. The joint statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI),…
Nov 04, 2024Mohit KumarDDoS Attack / Cybercrime German law enforcement authorities have announced the disruption of a criminal service called dstat[.]cc that made it possible for other threat actors to easily mount distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “The platform made such…
Security researchers claim to have discovered the first-ever open source supply chain attack combining blockchain technology with traditional attack vectors. Checkmarx said it found the malicious “jest-fet-mock” package on npm. It spoofs two legitimate and widely used JavaScript testing utilities:…
All of the UK local authorities targeted by Russian hacktivists last week appear to have restored online services. A group known as “NoName057(16)” took to X (formerly Twitter) last Monday to publish details of a DDoS campaign which it claimed…
Nov 04, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Financial Fraud Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of a well-known Android malware family dubbed FakeCall that employs voice phishing (aka vishing) techniques to trick users into parting with their personal information. “FakeCall…
Cybersecurity firm Sophos has detailed evolving tactics by Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) groups following five years of collecting telemetry on campaigns targeting its customers. Working with other cybersecurity vendors, governments and law enforcement agencies, the researchers were able to…
Nov 01, 2024Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Network Security Microsoft has revealed that a Chinese threat actor it tracks as Storm-0940 is leveraging a botnet called Quad7 to orchestrate highly evasive password spray attacks. The tech giant has given the botnet…
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