Microsoft has confirmed an outage that affected its multi-factor authentication (MFA) system, causing service disruptions for users attempting to access Microsoft 365 applications. The issue, identified early on January 13, prevented some customers from logging into their accounts due to…
Jan 13, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan The cyber world’s been buzzing this week, and it’s all about staying ahead of the bad guys. From sneaky software bugs to advanced hacking tricks, the risks are real, but so are the ways to protect…
Cyber inequity has widened in the past year amid increasing complexities in cyberspace and geopolitical uncertainties, to the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 has found. The WEF found that there is substantial disparity in the capabilities of…
Three alleged operators of popular cryptocurrency mixers have been charged with money laundering offenses. Russian trio Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko, Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik and Anton Vyachlavovich Tarasov were indicted by a federal grand jury for their involvement in the Blender.io and Sinbad.io services.…
Jan 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Domain Security No less than 4,000 unique web backdoors previously deployed by various threat actors have been hijacked by taking control of abandoned and expired infrastructure for as little as $20 per domain. Cybersecurity company…
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new stealthy credit card skimmer campaign that targets WordPress e-commerce checkout pages by inserting malicious JavaScript code into a database table associated with the content management system (CMS). “This credit card skimmer malware targeting…
Jan 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananFinancial Crime / Cryptocurrency The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday indicted three Russian nationals for their alleged involvement in operating the cryptocurrency mixing services Blender.io and Sinbad.io. Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko and Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik were…
Jan 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananAI Security / Cybersecurity Microsoft has revealed that it’s pursuing legal action against a “foreign-based threat–actor group” for operating a hacking-as-a-service infrastructure to intentionally get around the safety controls of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) services and…
Jan 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptomining / Malware Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is alerting of a phishing campaign that exploits its own branding to distribute a cryptocurrency miner that’s disguised as an employee CRM application as part of a supposed recruitment process. “The…
Jan 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Cyber Attack Mongolia, Taiwan, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cambodia have been targeted by the China-nexus RedDelta threat actor to deliver a customized version of the PlugX backdoor between July 2023 and December 2024. “The group…
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