Israeli charged in global hacker-for-hire scheme wants plea deal
An Israeli private detective detained in New York since 2019 on charges of involvement in a hacker-for-hire scheme wants a plea deal, according to a letter filed in court...
How Hackers Phish for Your Users’ Credentials and Sell Them
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Nov 28, 2023The Hacker NewsCybercrime / Breach Prevention
Account credentials, a popular initial access vector, have become a valuable commodity in cybercrime. As a result, a single set of...
LastPass Reveals Second Attack Resulting in Breach of Encrypted Password Vaults
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Feb 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananPassword Security / Data Breach
LastPass, which in December 2022 disclosed a severe data breach that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults, said it...
A New Critical SolarWinds Zero-Day Vulnerability Under Active Attack
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
SolarWinds, the Texas-based company that became the epicenter of a massive supply chain attack late last year, has issued patches to contain a remote code execution flaw...
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...
Police Arrest 21 WeLeakInfo Customers Who Bought Breached Personal Data
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
21 people have been arrested across the UK as part of a nationwide cyber crackdown targeting customers of WeLeakInfocom, a now-defunct online service that had been previously...
FBI, NSA and CISA Warns of Russian Hackers Targeting Critical Infrastructure
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Amid renewed tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine and Kazakhstan, American cybersecurity and intelligence agencies on Tuesday released a joint advisory on how to detect,...
Don’t Click That ZIP File! Phishers Weaponizing .ZIP Domains to Trick Victims
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A new phishing technique called "file archiver in the browser" can be leveraged to "emulate" a file archiver software in a web browser when a victim visits a...
New Mirai Botnet Variant ‘V3G4’ Exploiting 13 Flaws to Target Linux and IoT Devices
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Feb 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananIoT Security / Cyber Attack
A new variant of the notorious Mirai botnet has been found leveraging several security vulnerabilities to propagate itself to Linux and...
Ukraine Says Russia Planning Massive Cyberattacks on its Critical Infrastructures
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The Ukrainian government on Monday warned of "massive cyberattacks" by Russia targeting critical infrastructure facilities located in the country and that of its allies.
The attacks are said...
