Ex-CIA Programmer Found Guilty of Stealing Vault 7 Data, Giving It to Wikileaks
Joshua Schulte, a former CIA programmer, has been found guilty by a jury in a Manhattan, NY court for stealing the trove of classified data on US cyber espionage...
Netwrix Auditor Bug Could Lead to Active Directory Domain Compromise
Netwrix IT asset tracker and compliance auditor, used across more than 11,500 organizations, contains a critical Insecure Object Deserialization vulnerability that could lead to Active Directory domain compromise, a new...
DHS Review Board Deems Log4j an ‘Endemic’ Cyber Threat
The US Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has concluded that the Apache Log4j vulnerability disclosed in December 2021 will remain a significant risk to organizations...
Cryptocurrency ‘mixers’ see record transactions from sanctioned actors
Written by Tonya Riley Jul 14, 2022 |...
Data Breaches Linked to Ransomware Declined in Q2 2022
Ransomware attacks leading to data breaches fell 20% in the second quarter of 2022 compared with the first quarter and dropped quarter over quarter, according to new data from the Identity Theft Resource Center.
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Is Cryptocurrency’s Crash Causing Headaches for Ransomware Gangs?
As the value of Bitcoin plunged in the last eight months, some security firms have observed an impact on ransomware activity.
Since the beginning of the year, for example,...
Researchers Devise New Speculative Execution Attacks Against Some Intel, AMD CPUs
Researchers at ETH Zurich have found a way to overcome a commonly used defense mechanism against so-called speculative execution attacks targeting modern microprocessors.
In a technical paper published this week,...
QuickBooks Vishing Scam Targets Small Businesses
Cybercriminals are posing as Intuit's popular accounting software package QuickBooks to target Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 small business users in a voice-phishing scam.
The campaign sends a false invoice...
‘Nobody is holding them back’ — North Korean cyber-attack threat rises
North Korea-backed cyberattacks on cryptocurrency and tech firms will only become more sophisticated over time as the country battles prolonged economic sanctions and resource shortages. Former CIA analyst Soo Kim...
More than $4.7M stolen in Uniswap fake token phishing attack
A sophisticated phishing campaign targeting liquidity providers (LPs) of the Uniswap v3 protocol has seen attackers make off with at least $4.7 million worth of Ether (ETH). However, the...
