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...
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...
