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...
533 Million Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers and Personal Data Leaked Online
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
In what's likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime...
PHP Site’s User Database Was Hacked In Recent Source Code Backdoor Attack
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The maintainers of the PHP programming language have issued an update regarding the security incident that came to light late last month, stating that the actors may...
Data from 553 Million Facebook Accounts Leaked Online
Personal information belonging to more than 533 million Facebook users was found available on a cybercrime forum.The personal details of more than 533 million Facebook account holders from 106...
LinkedIn Phishing Ramps Up With More-Targeted Attacks
Seeking to take advantage of out-of-work users, malware groups continue to use LinkedIn and business services to offer fictional jobs and deliver infections instead.Phishing attacks are targeting out-of-work users...
Fraudsters Use HTML Legos to Evade Detection in Phishing Attack
Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database
CVE-2021-29221PUBLISHED: 2021-04-09
A local privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in Erlang/OTP prior to version 23.2.3. By adding files to an existing installation's directory, a local...
Top 8 Phishing Attacks of 2021
Top 8 Phishing Attacks of 2021 (Q1) and Advice for SMBs and MSPs
To wrap up the 1st Quarter of 2021 the CEO at HacWare, Tiffany Ricks, wanted to recap...
Report: Call Center Provider Exposed Robocall Database
By: Jeremiah Fowler
The Exposure Provides a Look Behind the Scenes of the Controversial Business of Autodialing.
1,481,280 calls made in 24 hours that included logs, exposing outgoing call data, and...
