22-Year-Old Charged With Hacking Water System and Endangering Lives
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Kansas has been indicted on charges that he unauthorizedly accessed a public water facility's computer system, jeopardizing the residents'...
Hackers From China Target Vietnamese Military and Government
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A hacking group related to a Chinese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam.
The attacks have been...
Hackers Exploit Unpatched VPNs to Install Ransomware on Industrial Targets
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Unpatched Fortinet VPN devices are being targeted in a series of attacks against industrial enterprises in Europe to deploy a new strain of ransomware called "Cring" inside...
Researchers uncover a new Iranian malware used in recent cyberattacks
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
An Iranian threat actor has unleashed a new cyberespionage campaign against a possible Lebanese target with a backdoor capable of exfiltrating sensitive information from compromised systems.
Cybersecurity firm...
Alert — There’s A New Malware Out There Snatching Users’ Passwords
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A previously undocumented malware downloader has been spotted in the wild in phishing attacks to deploy credential stealers and other malicious payloads.
Dubbed "Saint Bot," the malware is...
Poor Password Security Led to Recent Water Treatment Facility Hack
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
New details have emerged about the remote computer intrusion at a Florida water treatment facility last Friday, highlighting a lack of adequate security measures needed to bulletproof...
Hacker Tried Poisoning Water Supply After Breaking Into Florida’s Treatment System
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Hackers successfully infiltrated the computer system controlling a water treatment facility in the U.S. state of Florida and remotely changed a setting that drastically altered the levels...
Ukrainian Police Arrest Author of World’s Largest Phishing Service U-Admin
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Law enforcement officials in Ukraine, in coordination with authorities from the U.S. and Australia, last week shut down one of the world's largest phishing services that were...
Detailed: Here’s How Iran Spies on Dissidents with the Help of Hackers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Twin cyber operations conducted by state-sponsored Iranian threat actors demonstrate their continued focus on compiling detailed dossiers on Iranian citizens that could threaten the stability of the...
Hackers Exploiting Critical Zero-Day Bug in SonicWall SMA 100 Devices
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
SonicWall on Monday warned of active exploitation attempts against a zero-day vulnerability in its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series devices.
The flaw, which affects both physical and...
