18-Year-Old Hacker Gets 3 Years in Prison for Massive Twitter ‘Bitcoin Scam’ Hack
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A Florida teen accused of masterminding the hacks of several high-profile Twitter accounts last summer as part of a widespread cryptocurrency scam pled guilty to fraud charges...
Mimecast Finds SolarWinds Hackers Stole Some of Its Source Code
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Email security firm Mimecast on Tuesday revealed that the state-sponsored SolarWinds hackers who broke into its internal network also downloaded source code out of a limited number...
Tesla Ransomware Hacker Pleads Guilty; Swiss Hacktivist Charged for Fraud
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The U.S. Department of Justice yesterday announced updates on two separate cases involving cyberattacks—a Swiss hacktivist and a Russian hacker who planned to plant malware in the...
WARNING: A New Android Zero-Day Vulnerability Is Under Active Attack
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Google has disclosed that a now-patched vulnerability affecting Android devices that use Qualcomm chipsets is being weaponized by adversaries to launch targeted attacks.
Tracked as CVE-2020-11261 (CVSS score...
Purple Fox Rootkit Can Now Spread Itself to Other Windows Computers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Purple Fox, a Windows malware previously known for infecting machines by using exploit kits and phishing emails, has now added a new technique to its arsenal that...
Black Kingdom Ransomware Hunting Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
More than a week after Microsoft released a one-click mitigation tool to mitigate cyberattacks targeting on-premises Exchange servers, the company disclosed that patches have been applied to...
Hackers Set Up a Fake Cybersecurity Firm to Target Security Experts
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A North Korean government-backed campaign targeting cybersecurity researchers with malware has re-emerged with new tactics in their arsenal as part of a fresh social engineering attack.
In an...
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...
