As New Clues Emerges, Experts Wonder: Is REvil Back?
By: The Hacker News
Change is a part of life, and nothing stays the same for too long, even with hacking groups, which are at their most dangerous when working...
Overview of Top Mobile Security Threats in 2022
By: The Hacker News
Your smartphone is your daily companion. The chances are that most of our activities rely on them, from ordering food to booking medical appointments. However, the...
APT Hackers Targeting Industrial Control Systems with ShadowPad Backdoor
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Entities located in Afghanistan, Malaysia, and Pakistan are in the crosshairs of an attack campaign that targets unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers as an initial access vector to...
Critical PHP Vulnerability Exposes QNAP NAS Devices to Remote Attacks
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
QNAP, Taiwanese maker of network-attached storage (NAS) devices, on Wednesday said it's in the process of fixing a critical three-year-old PHP vulnerability that could be abused to...
Europol Busts Phishing Gang Responsible for Millions in Losses
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Europol on Tuesday announced the dismantling of an organized crime group that dabbled in phishing, fraud, scams, and money laundering activities.
The cross-border operation, which involved law enforcement...
Former Amazon Employee Found Guilty in 2019 Capital One Data Breach
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A 36-year-old former Amazon employee was convicted of wire fraud and computer intrusions in the U.S. for her role in the theft of personal data of no...
Atlassian Confluence Flaw Being Used to Deploy Ransomware and Crypto Miners
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A recently patched critical security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center products is being actively weaponized in real-world attacks to drop cryptocurrency miners and ransomware...
Chinese Hackers Exploited Sophos Firewall Zero-Day Flaw to Target South Asian Entity
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A sophisticated Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) actor exploited a critical security vulnerability in Sophos' firewall product that came to light earlier this year to infiltrate an...
Cloudflare Saw Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaking at 26 Million Request Per Second
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed that it had acted to prevent a record-setting 26 million request per second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack last week, making it the...
Panchan: A New Golang-based Peer-To-Peer Botnet Targeting Linux Servers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A new Golang-based peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet has been spotted actively targeting Linux servers in the education sector since its emergence in March 2022.
Dubbed Panchan by Akamai Security...