Category Security

The City of Dallas, Texas, USA has confirmed that a ransomware attack has brought down critical services, including some 911 call systems. “On Wednesday morning, the city’s security monitoring tools notified the Security Operations Center (SOC) that a ransomware attack…

May 5, 2023Rabbi LakshmananCyber ​​Threat/Malware North Korean state-sponsored threat actor known as Kimski It was discovered using a new reconnaissance tool called scout shark As part of an ongoing global campaign. “[ReconShark] It is actively delivered to specifically targeted individuals…

A popular WordPress plugin could expose nearly 2 million websites to attack. Millions of WordPress-powered websites use the Advanced Custom Fields and Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugins, which are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, security researchers say. increase. High-severity…

Several malicious Python .whl files containing a new type of malware called “Kekw” have been found on PyPI (Python Package Index). According to new data from Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL), Kekw malware can steal sensitive information from infected…

May 5, 2023Rabbi Lakshmananmobile security / android Various sectors of the East Asian market have been targeted in a new email phishing campaign distributing a previously undocumented Android malware variant. flu horse It exploits the Flutter software development framework. “This…

Security researchers have discovered new Trojan malware installed on over 620,000 devices after being hidden in 11 Android apps listed on Google Play. Named ‘Fleckpe’ by Kaspersky, the malware resembles the Jocker and Harly strains and has been active since…

May 5, 2023Rabbi Lakshmanan Italian corporate banking customers have been targeted in an ongoing financial fraud campaign leveraging a new web-inject toolkit. Driven At least since 2019. “The primary goal of the drIBAN fraud operation is to infect Windows workstations…

Ransomware attackers heated up the heat at a small Virginia university this week by hijacking the staff/student alert system to warn of an impending major data leak. Bluefield University discovered the attack on its IT systems on April 30, ahead…

May 5, 2023Rabbi LakshmananProgramming / Software Security PHP software package repository Packagist has revealed that “attackers” accessed four inactive accounts on the platform to hijack more than a dozen packages that have been installed more than 500 million times to…

European police arrested dozens of suspects and seized thousands of stolen goods last year after joint physical and cyber operations, according to Europol. Operation Pandora VII involved police in Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal,…