Sensitive Swiss federal government data, including classified documents and log in credentials, were leaked by the Play ransomware group following an attack on IT service provider Xplain in 2023. An investigation by Switzerland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealed that…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the indictment of a 38-year-old Chinese national and a California resident of allegedly stealing proprietary information from Google while covertly working for two China-based tech companies. Linwei Ding (aka Leon Ding), a former…
Security experts have warned that threat actors are now exploiting a critical TeamCity vulnerability en masse, creating hundreds of new user accounts on compromised servers. TeamCity is a popular CI/CD developer tool from Czech outfit JetBrains. Rapid7 published exploit details…
Mar 07, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Information Stealer Facebook messages are being used by threat actors to a Python-based information stealer dubbed Snake that’s designed to capture credentials and other sensitive data. “The credentials harvested from unsuspecting users are transmitted to different…
Mar 07, 2024NewsroomMalware / Network Security Threat actors have been leveraging fake websites advertising popular video conferencing software such as Google Meet, Skype, and Zoom to deliver a variety of malware targeting both Android and Windows users since December 2023.…
Mar 06, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Zero Day Apple has released security updates to address several security flaws, including two vulnerabilities that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. The shortcomings are listed below – CVE-2024-23225 – A memory corruption…
Is there any truth behind the alleged data breach at Fortnite maker Epic Games? Who launched the ransomware attack that caused a fallout at pharmacies? And what’s the latest on the heart-breaking hack of Finnish therapy clinic Vastaamo? All this…
Mar 06, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware A financial entity in Vietnam was the target of a previously undocumented threat actor called Lotus Bane that was first detected in March 2023. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB described the hacking outfit as an advanced persistent…
A threat actor has been distributing remote access Trojans (RATs) on Android and Windows operating systems using online meeting lures, according to cloud security provider Zscaler. This campaign has been ongoing since at least December 2023, observed Zscaler’s threat intelligence…
Mar 06, 2024NewsroomSoftware Security / Vulnerability VMware has released patches to address four security flaws impacting ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion, including two critical flaws that could lead to code execution. Tracked as CVE-2024-22252 and CVE-2024-22253, the vulnerabilities have been described…
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