Using Breached Password Detection Services to Prevent Cyberattack
By: The Hacker News
Bolstering password policies in your organization is an important part of a robust cybersecurity strategy. Cybercriminals are using compromised accounts as one of their favorite tactics...
U.S. Recovers $2.3 Million Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
In a major blow, the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday said it has recovered 63.7 bitcoins (currently valued at $2.3 million) paid by Colonial Pipeline to...
Hackers Breached Colonial Pipeline Using Compromised VPN Password
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The ransomware cartel that masterminded the Colonial Pipeline attack early last month crippled the pipeline operator's network using a compromised virtual private network (VPN) account password, the...
Necro Python Malware Upgrades With New Exploits and Crypto Mining Capabilities
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
New upgrades have been made to a Python-based "self-replicating, polymorphic bot" called Necro in what's seen as an attempt to improve its chances of infecting vulnerable systems...
Researchers Uncover Hacking Operations Targeting Government Entities in South Korea
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A North Korean threat actor active since 2012 has been behind a new espionage campaign targeting high-profile government officials associated with its southern counterpart to install an...
Google Researchers Discover A New Variant of Rowhammer Attack
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A team of security researchers from Google has demonstrated yet another variant of the Rowhammer attack that bypasses all current defenses to tamper with data stored in...
FBI Analyst Charged With Stealing Counterterrorism and Cyber Threat Info
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for illegally removing numerous national security documents and willfully retaining them...
Microsoft Warns of Data Stealing Malware That Pretends to Be Ransomware
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Microsoft on Thursday warned of a "massive email campaign" that's pushing a Java-based STRRAT malware to steal confidential data from infected systems while disguising itself as a...
Watering Hole Attack Was Used to Target Florida Water Utilities
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
An investigation undertaken in the aftermath of the Oldsmar water plant hack earlier this year has revealed that an infrastructure contractor in the U.S. state of Florida...
Rapid7 Source Code Breached in Codecov Supply-Chain Attack
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Cybersecurity company Rapid7 on Thursday revealed that unidentified actors improperly managed to get hold of a small portion of its source code repositories in the aftermath of...
