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Below you will find our latest blog posts.BeyondTrust says hackers breached Remote Support SaaS instances
Privileged access management company BeyondTrust suffered a cyberattack in early December after threat actors breached some of its Remote Support SaaS instances. [...] from...
Ongoing phishing attack abuses Google Calendar to bypass spam filters
An ongoing phishing scam is abusing Google Calendar invites and Google Drawings pages to steal credentials while bypassing spam filters. [...] from https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ongoing-phishing-attack-abuses-google-calendar-to-bypass-spam-filters/
Raccoon Stealer malware operator gets 5 years in prison after guilty plea
Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky was sentenced today to five years in prison for his involvement in the Raccoon Stealer malware cybercrime operation. [...] from...
Russian hackers use RDP proxies to steal data in MiTM attacks
The Russian hacking group tracked as APT29 (aka "Midnight Blizzard") is using a network of 193 remote desktop protocol proxy servers to perform man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks to steal data and credentials and to install malicious payloads. [...] from...
US considers banning TP-Link routers over cybersecurity risks
The U.S. government is considering banning TP-Link routers starting next year if ongoing investigations find that their use in cyberattacks poses a national security risk. [...] from...
HubSpot phishing targets 20,000 Microsoft Azure accounts
A phishing campaign targeting automotive, chemical, and industrial manufacturing companies in Germany and the UK is abusing HubSpot to steal Microsoft Azure account credentials. [...] from...
CISA urges switch to Signal-like encrypted messaging apps after telecom hacks
Today, CISA urged senior government and political officials to switch to end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Signal following a wave of telecom breaches across dozens of countries, including eight carriers in the United States. [...] from...
Malicious Microsoft VSCode extensions target devs, crypto community
Malicious Visual Studio Code extensions were discovered on the VSCode marketplace that download heavily obfuscated PowerShell payloads to target developers and cryptocurrency projects in supply chain attacks. [...] from...
Recorded Future CEO applauds “undesirable” designation by Russia
Recorded Future, an American threat intelligence company, has become the first cybersecurity firm designated by the Russian government as an "undesirable" organization. [...] from...
Interpol replaces dehumanizing “Pig Butchering” term with “Romance Baiting”
Interpol calls on the cybersecurity community, law enforcement, and the media to stop using the term "Pig Butchering" when referring to online relationship and investment scams, as it unnecessarily shames the victims impacted by these fraud campaigns. [...] from...
NVIDIA shares fix for game performance issues with new NVIDIA App
Nvidia has shared a temporary fix for a known issue impacting systems running its recently unveiled NVIDIA App and causing gaming performance to drop by up to 15%. [...] from...
‘Bitter’ cyberspies target defense orgs with new MiyaRAT malware
A cyberespionage threat group known as 'Bitter' was observed targeting defense organizations in Turkey using a novel malware family named MiyaRAT. [...] from https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bitter-cyberspies-target-defense-orgs-with-new-miyarat-malware/
New fake Ledger data breach emails try to steal crypto wallets
A new Ledger phishing campaign is underway that pretends to be a data breach notification asking you to verify your recovery phrase, which is then stolen and used to steal your cryptocurrency. [...] from...
CISA orders federal agencies to secure Microsoft 365 tenants
CISA has issued this year's first binding operational directive (BOD 25-01), ordering federal civilian agencies to secure their Microsoft 365 cloud environments by implementing a list of required configuration baselines. [...] from...
New critical Apache Struts flaw exploited to find vulnerable servers
A recently patched critical Apache Struts 2 vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-53677 is actively exploited using public proof-of-concept exploits to find vulnerable devices. [...] from...
Ireland fines Meta $264 million over 2018 Facebook data breach
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €251 million ($263.6M) over General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violations arising from a 2018 personal data breach impacting 29 million Facebook accounts. [...] from...
Over 25,000 SonicWall VPN Firewalls exposed to critical flaws
Over 25,000 publicly accessible SonicWall SSLVPN devices are vulnerable to critical severity flaws, with 20,000 using a SonicOS/OSX firmware version that the vendor no longer supports. [...] from...
Might need a mass password reset one day? Read this first.
Organizations are often caught off-guard when a data breaches occurs, forcing them to quickly perform mass password resets Learn from Specops Software about some of the common mass password reset scenarios and the challenges you may face. [...] from...