Hackers Abuse EDRSilencer Tool to Bypass Security and Hide Malicious Activity
Oct 16, 2024Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Malware
Threat actors are attempting to abuse the open-source EDRSilencer tool as part of efforts to tamper endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions and...
Hackers target Ukraine’s potential conscripts with MeduzaStealer malware
Hackers have targeted the devices of Ukraine’s draft-aged men with MeduzaStealer malware spread through Telegram, researchers have found. MeduzaStealer was previously used by Russia-linked threat actors to...
‘Nationally significant’ cyberattacks are surging, warns the UK’s new cyber chief
The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has “already responded to 50% more nationally significant incidents compared to last year,” its new chief executive announced on Wednesday....
More than two dozen countries have used internet outages to sway elections: report
Forty-three governments worldwide have attacked or killed citizens for their online speech and 25 have cut off internet access during election periods, metrics which contributed to an overall...
WordPress plugin Jetpack fixes nearly decade-old critical security flaw
The popular WordPress plugin Jetpack has released a critical security update, addressing a vulnerability that could have affected 27 million websites. The flaw was found in the...
Google’s Heather Adkins on infostealers, two-factor authentication and fixing the security ‘mess’ for future...
Heather Adkins, the vice president of security engineering at Google, has spent more than two decades at the company. As head of its Office of Cybersecurity Resilience, she...
Sweden, Finland partner to take down Sipulitie criminal marketplace
An online haven for the sale of narcotics and other criminal goods in Scandinavia was shut down and had its servers seized by law enforcement agencies in Sweden...
Critical Veeam Vulnerability Exploited to Spread Akira and Fog Ransomware
Oct 14, 2024Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Vulnerability
Threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a now-patched security flaw in Veeam Backup & Replication to deploy Akira and Fog ransomware.
Cybersecurity vendor Sophos...
Iran-linked hackers increasingly spy on governments in Gulf region, researchers say
An Iran-linked cyberespionage group has stepped up its attacks in recent months against government agencies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the broader Gulf region, according to...
Recently-patched Firefox bug exploited against Tor browser users
The Tor anonymity network issued an emergency patch last week to address a recently-discovered security flaw that was being exploited against its users. The bug, tracked as...
