Dec 26, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Ransomware A Brazilian citizen has been charged in the United States for allegedly threatening to release data stolen by hacking into a company’s network in March 2020. Junior Barros De Oliveira, 29, of Curitiba, Brazil…
The Lumma Stealer infostealer malware is increasingly sought after by cybercriminals, according to cybersecurity firm ESET which reported a 369% surge in detections in its telemetry in the second half of 2024. Lumma Stealer first appeared in the wild in…
Dec 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Vulnerability The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has shipped security updates to address a critical security flaw in Traffic Control that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary Structured Query Language (SQL)…
Dec 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have discovered several security flaws in the cloud management platform developed by Ruijie Networks that could permit an attacker to take control of the network appliances. “These vulnerabilities affect both the…
Dec 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Malware The Iranian nation-state hacking group known as Charming Kitten has been observed deploying a C++ variant of a known malware called BellaCiao. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which dubbed the new version BellaCPP, said…
In episode 30 of The AI Fix, AIs are caught lying to avoid being turned off, Apple’s AI flubs a headline, ChatGPT is available to people who haven’t left the 1970s, our hosts regret to inform you that an AI…
Dec 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Software Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched high-severity security flaw impacting Acclaim Systems USAHERDS to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation…
Dec 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Data Exfiltration Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two malicious packages that were uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository and came fitted with capabilities to exfiltrate sensitive information from compromised hosts, according to new findings…
US and Japanese authorities have attributed a major cryptocurrency heist worth $308m to North Korean hackers. An alert from the FBI, Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center and National Police Agency of Japan said the May 2024 theft from Japan-based…
Dec 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Malware Japanese and U.S. authorities have formerly attributed the theft of cryptocurrency worth $308 million from cryptocurrency company DMM Bitcoin in May 2024 to North Korean cyber actors. “The theft is affiliated with TraderTraitor threat…
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