hackers

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: SecurityWeek

The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887, affect fully patched Internet-facing Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliances (formerly known as Pulse Secure) and were caught during in-the-wild zero-day exploitation. Ivanti, a company that has struggled with major security problems, released pre-patch mitigations for the new vulnerabilities but said comprehensive fixes will be released on a staggered…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Last week, a group of hackers targeted Radioactive Waste Management (RWM), a UK government-owned company behind the country’s multibllion-dollar Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) nuclear waste-storage project, using social engineering and LinkedIn. RWM merged last year with two other companies to create Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), which also administers the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria,…

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Ukrainian cyber defenders report that fast-acting Russian military intelligence hackers have been targeting government agencies as well as organizations in Poland using backdoor malware tied to phishing lures based on a fake letter from the Ukrainian deputy prime minister. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine on Thursday detailed a spear-phishing campaign that it has…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

When videoconferencing service Zoom searched for a better way to assign a severity to vulnerabilities found during bug bounty programs, the company’s security team could not find a suitable approach: The popular Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) was too subjective, and the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) was too focused on the probability of exploitation….

News

Issued by: SecurityWeek

While the hackers were only able to get into about 14,000 accounts, or 0.1 percent of its customers, they were able to see information shared by genetically linked relatives at 23andMe, a spokesperson said in reply to an AFP inquiry. 23andMe is in the process of notifying affected customers and has hardened account security by…

News

Issued by: Naked Security

Yesterday, we wrote about cybercrime charges that were finally unsealed for a massive cryptocurrency heist that was allegedly conducted over a three-year period starting back in 2011. Today’s long-term cybercrime justice story concerns the last member of the so-called Gozi Troika, three men who were originally charged in January 2013 for malware-related crimes that apparently…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Australian consumer lender Latitude Financial Services anticipates its spring cybersecurity incident will cost it up to AU$105 million, which includes a five-week period during which debt collection systems were severely affected by the attack. Hackers demanded extortion from the non-bank creditor after stealing data pertaining to 14 million customers, including nearly 8 million Australian and…

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Security researchers have discovered an Iran-linked APT group carrying out a new chain of ransomware attacks using a new strain of malware against Israeli organizations. Researchers at Check Point found a ransomware strain called Moneybird that is reminiscent of the Iranian Agrius group’s previous campaigns. Agrius gained notoriety for targeting Israel-based entities with wiper variants,…