U.S. Offers $15 Million Bounty to Hunt Down LockBit Ransomware Leaders
Feb 22, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Cybercrime
The U.S. State Department has announced monetary rewards of up to $15 million for information that could lead to the identification of key leaders within...
The Drop in Ransomware Attacks in 2024 and What it Means
The ransomware industry surged in 2023 as it saw an alarming 55.5% increase in victims worldwide, reaching a staggering 5,070. But 2024 is starting off showing a very different...
Unpatched Travis CI API Bug Exposes Thousands of Secret User Access Tokens
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
An unpatched security issue in the Travis CI API has left tens of thousands of developers' user tokens exposed to potential attacks, effectively allowing threat actors to...
Apple Releases iOS Update for Older iPhones to Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerability
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Apple on Wednesday backported security updates to older iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices to address a critical security flaw that has been actively exploited in the...
Cisco Confirms It’s Been Hacked by Yanluowang Ransomware Gang
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Networking equipment major Cisco on Wednesday confirmed it was the victim of a cyberattack on May 24, 2022 after the attackers got hold of an employee's personal...
Microsoft, OpenAI Warn of Nation-State Hackers Weaponizing AI for Cyberattacks
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Feb 14, 2024NewsroomArtificial Intelligence / Cyber Attack
Nation-state actors associated with Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to...
New Hacking Cluster ‘Clasiopa’ Targeting Materials Research Organizations in Asia
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Feb 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intel
Materials research organizations in Asia have been targeted by a previously unknown threat actor using a distinct set of tools.
Symantec, by Broadcom...
How to Make Your Employees Your First Line of Cyber Defense
May 01, 2024The Hacker NewsSecurity Awareness Training
There's a natural human desire to avoid threatening scenarios. The irony, of course, is if you hope to attain any semblance of security,...
Hive Ransomware Attackers Extorted $100 Million from Over 1,300 Companies Worldwide
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The threat actors behind the Hive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme have launched attacks against over 1,300 companies across the world, netting the gang $100 million in illicit payments...
Attackers Flood NPM Repository with Over 15,000 Spam Packages Containing Phishing Links
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Feb 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananOpen Source / Supply Chain Attack
In what's a continuing assault on the open source ecosystem, over 15,000 spam packages have flooded the npm repository in...
