Researchers Discover Dangerous Firmware-Level Rootkit
Firmware-based rootkits, though still relatively rare, are gaining in popularity because they give threat actors a way to maintain a persistent, hard-to-detect, and difficult-to-eradicate presence on a target network.Kaspersky...
Destructive Wiper Targeting Ukraine Aimed at Eroding Trust, Experts Say
Disruptive malware attacks on Ukrainian organizations (posing as ransomware attacks) are very likely part of Russia’s wider effort to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty, according to analysts.
Russia is positioned for a...
A Trip to the Dark Site — Leak Sites Analyzed
By: The Hacker News
Gone are the days when ransomware operators were happy with encrypting files on-site and more or less discretely charged their victims money for a decryption key....
DoNot Hacking Team Targeting Government and Military Entities in South Asia
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A threat actor with potential links to an Indian cybersecurity company has been nothing if remarkably persistent in its attacks against military organizations based in South Asia,...
Interpol Busted 11 Members of Nigerian BEC Cybercrime Gang
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A coordinated law enforcement operation has resulted in the arrest of 11 members allegedly belonging to a Nigerian cybercrime gang notorious for perpetrating business email compromise (BEC)...
Microsoft Sees Log4j Attacks Exploiting SolarWinds Serv-U Bug
SolarWinds has fixed a Serv-U bug that threat actors were exploiting to unleash Log4j attacks on networks’ internal devices.
Threat actors have weaponized a newly discovered bug in SolarWinds Serv-U...
Critical Cisco StarOS Bug Grants Root Access via Debug Mode
Cisco issued a critical fix for a flaw in its Cisco RCM for Cisco StarOS Software that could give attackers RCE on the application with root-level privileges.
Cisco released...
Suspicious withdrawals were indeed a ‘security incident,’ $30M stolen, Crypto.com says
Written by Joe Warminsky Jan 20, 2022 |...
Israel police used Pegasus software to spy on citizens – media
Politicians, opposition protest leaders, and government employees were bugged and tracked without authorization.The infamous NSO’s Pegasus spyware was used to remotely hack phones and extract information from Israeli citizens,...
Serial romance scammer jailed in the UK after preying on nearly 700 women
A UK-based scammer conned several women out of £20,000 after persuading them to lend him money via dating sites.
Osagie Aigbonohan, 41, originally from Lagos, Nigeria, preyed on 670 women....
