Urgent: Microsoft Issues Patches for 97 Flaws, Including Active Ransomware Exploit
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Apr 12, 2023Ravie LakshmananPatch Tuesday / Software Updates
It's the second Tuesday of the month, and Microsoft has released another set of security updates to fix a total of...
Ukraine: Recent Cyber Attacks Part of Wider Plot to Sabotage Critical Infrastructure
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The coordinated cyberattacks targeting Ukrainian government websites and the deployment of a data-wiper malware called WhisperGate on select government systems are part of a broader wave of...
Watch Out! Zyxel Firewalls and VPNs Under Active Cyberattack
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Taiwanese networking equipment company Zyxel is warning customers of an ongoing attack targeting a "small subset" of its security products such as firewall and VPN servers.
Attributing the...
Russia-Ukraine War: Phishing, Malware and Hacker Groups Taking Sides
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has warned of Belarusian state-sponsored hackers targeting its military personnel and related individuals as part of a phishing campaign mounted amidst...
CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Federal Agencies on Ivanti Zero-Day Exploits
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Jan 20, 2024NewsroomNetwork Security / Threat Intelligence
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday issued an emergency directive urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to...
Iranian Hackers Abuse Dropbox in Cyberattacks Against Aerospace and Telecom Firms
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Details have emerged about a new cyber espionage campaign directed against the aerospace and telecommunications industries, primarily in the Middle East, with the goal of stealing sensitive...
Microsoft Thwarts Chinese Cyber Attack Targeting Western European Governments
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Jul 12, 2023THNThreat Intel / Cyber Espionage
Microsoft on Tuesday revealed that it repelled a cyber attack staged by a Chinese nation-state actor targeting two dozen organizations, some of...
Hackers Spotted Using Morse Code in Phishing Attacks to Evade Detection
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Microsoft has disclosed details of an evasive year-long social engineering campaign wherein the operators kept changing their obfuscation and encryption mechanisms every 37 days on average, including...
Hackers Steal Mimecast Certificate Used to Securely Connect with Microsoft 365
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Mimecast said on Tuesday that "a sophisticated threat actor" had compromised a digital certificate it provided to certain customers to securely connect its products to Microsoft 365...
Guyana Governmental Entity Hit by DinodasRAT in Cyber Espionage Attack
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Oct 05, 2023NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cyber Threat
A governmental entity in Guyana has been targeted as part of a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Jacana.
The activity, which was detected...
