Category Security

GitHub confirmed Monday that attackers stole three digital certificates used for desktop and Atom applications in a December 2022 cyberattack. write in blog postthe company also said after investigating the incident, it concluded that there was no risk to the…

Security researchers suggest that more than a quarter (28%) of all cyberattacks in the UK have hit the financial services and insurance (FSI) industry in the last 12 months. The data, provided via email from the Imperva cybersecurity team, also…

January 31, 2023Rabbi LakshmananThreat Detection / Malware A shellcode-based packer called trick gate It has been operating under the radar for over six years while enabling threat actors to deploy a wide variety of malware including TrickBot, Emotet, AZORult, Agent…

A major Taiwanese hardware manufacturer is urging customers to patch critical vulnerabilities in devices running QTS or QuTS Hero firmware. Network Attached Storage (NAS) device maker QNAP said in an advisory yesterday that CVE-2022-27596 affects QTS 5.0.1 and QuTS hero…

Do you know where your secret is? If not, I can tell you: you are not alone. Hundreds of CISOs, CSOs, and security leaders from large and small companies know neither. Regardless of your organization’s size, qualifications, tools, people, or…

Russian hacktivists seem to have gotten busy again after several hospital websites in the US and the Netherlands were reportedly brought down by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. According to Atlas News, the University of Michigan Hospital and Stanford…

January 31, 2023Rabbi Lakshmanancyber war / malware Russian-linked Sandworm used yet another wiper malware strain that was dubbed Nico wiper It targeted companies in the Ukrainian energy sector as part of an attack that occurred in October 2022. “NikoWiper is…

Two Florida medical professionals have been convicted of various crimes by a federal jury after defrauding the government’s Medicare system of tens of millions of dollars. Dean Zassmer, 54, a Chiropractor in Miami, is accused of health care fraud, health…

January 31, 2023Rabbi Lakshmanansecurity incident / encryption GitHub revealed Monday that an unknown attacker has stolen encrypted code-signing certificates associated with some versions of GitHub Desktop for Mac and the Atom app. As a result, the company is taking steps…

January 31, 2023Rabbi LakshmananData security/vulnerability Taiwanese company QNAP has released an update to fix a critical security flaw affecting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices that could lead to arbitrary code injection. tracked as CVE-2022-27596, the vulnerability is rated 9.8 out…