Akira Ransomware Nets $42 Million from 250+ Victims

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MITRE Corporation Breached by Nation-State Hackers Exploiting Ivanti Flaws

The MITRE Corporation revealed that it was the target of a nation-state cyber attack that exploited two zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure appliances starting in January 2024. The intrusion led to the compromise of its Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment NERVE...

Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the states revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a...

Oracle Solaris 安全漏洞

Oracle Solaris is a UNIX operating system from Oracle Corporation USA. A security vulnerability exists in Oracle Systems' Oracle Solaris. An attacker has exploited this vulnerability to cause a takeover of Oracle Solaris...

The LockBit’s Attempt to Stay Relevant, Its Imposters and New Opportunistic Ransomware Groups

The LockBit’s Attempt to Stay Relevant, Its Imposters and New Opportunistic Ransomware Groups By Jambul Tologonov and John Fokker · April 11, 2024 The Trellix Advanced Research Center has recently observed an uptick of LockBit-related cyber activity surrounding vulnerabilities in ScreenConnect...

lanziserocreative.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3907978

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Lessons from a Ransomware Attack against the British Library

You might think that libraries are kind of boring, but this self-analysis of a 2023 ransomware and extortion attack against the British Library is anything but...

Finland Blames Chinese Hacking Group APT31 for Parliament Cyber Attack

The Police of Finland aka Poliisi has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country's Parliament in 2020. The intrusion, per the authorities, is said to have occurred between fall 2020 and early 2021. The agency described the...

China-Linked Group Breaches Networks via Connectwise, F5 Software Flaws

A China-linked threat cluster leveraged security flaws in Connectwise ScreenConnect and F5 BIG-IP software to deliver custom malware capable of delivering additional backdoors on compromised Linux hosts as part of an "aggressive" campaign. Google-owned Mandiant is tracking the activity under its...

Russia Hackers Using TinyTurla-NG to Breach European NGO's Systems

The Russia-linked threat actor known as Turla infected several systems belonging to an unnamed European non-governmental organization NGO in order to deploy a backdoor called TinyTurla-NG TTNG. "The attackers compromised the first system, established persistence and added exclusions to antivirus...

Suspected Russian Data-Wiping 'AcidPour' Malware Targeting Linux x86 Devices

A new variant of a data wiping malware called AcidRain has been detected in the wild that's specifically designed for targeting Linux x86 devices. The malware, dubbed AcidPour, is compiled for Linux x86 devices, SentinelOne's Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade said in a series of posts on X. "The new...

Not everything has to be a massive, global cyber attack

Some of my Webex rooms recently have been blowing up with memes about blaming Canada or wild speculation that a state-sponsored actor is carrying out some sort of major campaign. After a widespread outage of cellular service with AT&T and other carriers a few weeks ago, people were sure it was so...

Fortinet Warns of Severe SQLi Vulnerability in FortiClientEMS Software

Fortinet has warned of a critical security flaw impacting its FortiClientEMS software that could allow attackers to achieve code execution on affected systems. "An improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL Command 'SQL Injection' vulnerability CWE-89 in FortiClientEMS may allow a...

ThreatDown achieves perfect score in latest AVLab assessment

ThreatDown has once again earned a perfect score in AVLabs January 2024 real-world malware detection tests, marking the eleventh consecutive quarter in achieving this feat. Let’s delve into the details of the test and how ThreatDown outperformed competitors in exhaustive testing. The AVLab...

Leicester City Council’s IT System and Phones Down Amid Cyber Attack

By Waqas Another day, another cyber attack on a local council in England! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Leicester City Councils IT System and Phones Down Amid Cyber Attack...

Microsoft Confirms Russian Hackers Stole Source Code, Some Customer Secrets

Microsoft on Friday revealed that the Kremlin-backed threat actor known as Midnight Blizzard aka APT29 or Cozy Bear managed to gain access to some of its source code repositories and internal systems following a hack that came to light in January 2024. "In recent weeks, we have seen evidence that...

QEMU Emulator Exploited as Tunneling Tool to Breach Company Network

Threat actors have been observed leveraging the QEMU open-source hardware emulator as tunneling software during a cyber attack targeting an unnamed "large company" to connect to their infrastructure. While a number of legitimate tunneling tools like Chisel, FRP, ligolo, ngrok, and Plink have been...

New APT Group 'Lotus Bane' Behind Recent Attacks on Vietnam's Financial Entities

A financial entity in Vietnam was the target of a previously undocumented threat actor called Lotus Bane as part of a cyber attack that was first detected in March 2023. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB described the hacking outfit as an advanced persistent threat group that's believed to have be...

Microsoft Expands Free Logging Capabilities for all U.S. Federal Agencies

Microsoft has expanded free logging capabilities to all U.S. federal agencies using Microsoft Purview Audit irrespective of the license tier, more than six months after a China-linked cyber espionage campaign targeting two dozen organizations came to light. "Microsoft will automatically enable th...

Microsoft, OpenAI Warn of Nation-State Hackers Weaponizing AI for Cyber Attacks

Nation-state actors associated with Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China are experimenting with artificial intelligence AI and large language models LLMs to complement their ongoing cyber attack operations. The findings come from a report published by Microsoft in collaboration with OpenAI, both ...