Category Security

May 11, 2023Ravi Lakshmanan GitHub has announced the general availability of a new security feature called . push protectionintended to prevent developers from accidentally leaking keys and other secrets in their code. The Microsoft-owned cloud-based repository hosting platform, which began…

Attackers are adopting more sophisticated ransomware attack techniques, incorporating key attributes of defunct criminal groups to target individuals, according to a new Kaspersky report. This shift highlights growing concerns in the cybersecurity environment. report, Emerging ransomware trends for 2023made public…

May 11, 2023Ravi LakshmananCyber ​​Crime/Phishing The Spanish National Police announced that it had arrested 40 people on suspicion of being associated with organized crime. Trinitarian. Those arrested include two hackers who used phishing and smishing techniques to commit bank fraud,…

Since 2021, we have observed an increasing number of attackers using the leaked Babuk code to create new forms of ransomware targeting VMware ESXi hypervisor environments. According to the advisory released today by SentinelOne, these new variants will appear between…

So-called previously undetected APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) attackers red stinger Believed to be related to attacks targeting Eastern Europe since 2020. In a report released today, Malwarebytes said “military, transportation and critical infrastructure were some of the companies targeted, some…

What is Akira? Akira is a new family of ransomware that was first used in cybercriminal attacks in March 2023. Akira? Ever heard of it? You’re probably thinking of the cyberpunk comics and movies that came out in the 1980s.…

The volume of internet traffic attributed to malicious automation software has increased by 2.5% since 2021, reaching over 30%. This is the highest number since Imperva’s first release. Bad bot report in 2013. Imperva, the latest in a long-running report,…

May 11, 2023Rabbi LakshmananServer security/ransomware Multiple attackers used the September 2021 Babuk (aka Babak or Babyk) ransomware code leak to build up to nine different ransomware families that can target VMware ESXi systems. In a report shared with The Hacker…

A cybercriminal group that compromised a cybersecurity vendor’s cloud-based resources attempted to blackmail the company by blackmailing their families, the company said. Dragos, an operational technology (OT) security specialist, said on May 8 that attackers compromised new hires’ email accounts…

May 11, 2023hacker news According to Forrester, External Attack Surface Management (EASM) will emerge as a market category in 2021 and gain popularity in 2022. In another report, Gartner concludes that vulnerability management vendors are expanding their offerings to include…