Category Security

May 25, 2023hacker newsBrowser security/technology Browser security has become an increasingly pressing issue in today’s digital environment, making it essential for organizations to be aware of the latest threats to browser security. That’s why LayerX hosted browser security platform. webinar…

May 25, 2023Ravi LakshmananEmail security/exploits An unnamed government agency associated with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was targeted, presumably by Iranian attackers, using a “simple and effective” backdoor to compromise the victim’s Microsoft Exchange Server Did. Power Exchange. According to…

The UK’s National Cyber ​​Security Center (NCSC) and several other international security agencies have issued new advisories warning the public against Chinese cyber activity targeting critical US national infrastructure networks. According to this document, associated actors from the People’s Republic…

May 25, 2023hacker newsIncident response A hospital with 2,000 employees in the EU has implemented Cynet protection throughout its environment. The hospital was in the process of upgrading several expensive imaging systems that were still supported on Windows XP and…

Since the beginning of this month, some owners of HP OfficeJet printers have reported that they are getting blue screen error messages and bricking their devices. According to the printer manufacturing giant, a “limited number” of HP OfficeJet Pro 9020x…

Perception Point observed a 356% increase in the number of advanced phishing attacks attempted by threat actors in 2022. According to the company, 2023 Annual Report: Cybersecurity Trends and Insights According to the report, the total number of attacks increased…

May 25, 2023Ravi LakshmananNetwork security/vulnerability Zyxel has released software updates to address two critical security flaws affecting some firewall and VPN products. These flaws could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute code. Both CVE-2023-33009 and CVE-2023-33010 flaws are…

A critical security flaw was discovered in the Expo framework that could be exploited to expose user data for various online services. This vulnerability (CVE-2023-28131) was discovered by Salt Security and has a CVSS score of 9.6. Specifically, this bug…

May 25, 2023Ravi LakshmananGame/Server Security A new botnet called dark frost It has been observed launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the gaming industry. “The Dark Frost botnet, modeled after Gafgyt, QBot, Mirai, and other malware strains, has…

I was surprised to receive an email this week informing me that I had renewed my yearly subscription to McAfee Antivirus. Why are you surprised? Well, I think the only time I ran a McAfee antivirus product on my computer…