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Casio Hit by Major Cyberattack AGAIN
Casio experienced a major cyberattack on October 5, 2024, causing system disruptions and raising concerns about a potential…...
Lamborghini Carjackers Lured by $243M Cyberheist
The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August were carjacked a week later -- while out house-hunting in a brand new Lamborghini. Prosecutors say the couple was beaten and briefly kidnapped by six young men who...
Cyberattack Group 'Awaken Likho' Targets Russian Government with Advanced Tools
Russian government agencies and industrial entities are the target of an ongoing activity cluster dubbed Awaken Likho. "The attackers now prefer using the agent for the legitimate MeshCentral platform instead of the UltraVNC module, which they had previously used to gain remote access to systems,...
Cyberattack on American Water Shuts Down Customer Portal, Halts Billing
American Water faces a cyberattack, disrupting its customer portal and billing operations. The company assures that water services…...
AFP News Agency’s Content Delivery Systems Hit by Cyberattack
AFP news agency suffers a cyberattack disrupting its content delivery systems. News coverage continues as experts investigate, with…...
UK Train Stations’ Wi-Fi Hacked, Displays Islamophobic Messages
A major cyberattack targeting Wi-Fi networks at UK railway stations, including London Euston and Manchester Piccadilly, has caused…...
MoneyGram Cyberattack: Global Service Disruptions Enter Day 5
MoneyGram faces a cyberattack that has caused global service disruptions for five days. Customers are unable to send…...
Akamai Prevents DDoS Attack on Major U.S. Customer
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The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’
A cyberattack that shut down two of the top casinos in Las Vegas last year quickly became one of the most riveting security stories of 2023. It was the first known case of native English-speaking hackers in the United States and Britain teaming up with ransomware gangs based in Russia. But that...
Experts Identify 3 Chinese-Linked Clusters Behind Cyberattacks in Southeast Asia
A trio of threat activity clusters linked to China has been observed compromising more government organizations in Southeast Asia as part of a renewed state-sponsored operation codenamed Crimson Palace, indicating an expansion in the scope of the espionage effort. Cybersecurity firm Sophos, which...
Planned Parenthood partly offline after ransomware attack
In late August, Intermountain Planned Parenthood of Montana suffered a cyberattack which is still under investigation. The attack has been claimed by a ransomware group. Intermountain Planned Parenthood Inc., doing business as Planned Parenthood Of Montana, is a nonprofit organization that provid...
London’s city transport hit by cybersecurity incident [updated]
Transport for London TfL, the citys transport authority, is fighting through an ongoing cyberattack. TfL runs three separate units that arrange transports on Londons surface, underground, and Crossrail transportation systems. It serves some 8 million inhabitants of the London metropolitan area. I...
New Cyberattack Targets Chinese-Speaking Businesses with Cobalt Strike Payloads
Chinese-speaking users are the target of a "highly organized and sophisticated attack" campaign that is likely leveraging phishing emails to infect Windows systems with Cobalt Strike payloads. "The attackers managed to move laterally, establish persistence and remain undetected within the systems...
Vietnamese Human Rights Group Targeted in Multi-Year Cyberattack by APT32
A non-profit supporting Vietnamese human rights has been the target of a multi-year campaign designed to deliver a variety of malware on compromised hosts. Cybersecurity company Huntress attributed the activity to a threat cluster tracked as APT32, a Vietnamese-aligned hacking crew that's also...
Microsoft Fixes ASCII Smuggling Flaw That Enabled Data Theft from Microsoft 365 Copilot
Details have emerged about a now-patched vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that could enable the theft of sensitive user information using a technique called ASCII smuggling. "ASCII Smuggling is a novel technique that uses special Unicode characters that mirror ASCII but are actually not...
Complete Guide to Protecting Seven Attack Vectors
The quicker a cyberattack is identified, the less it costs. Jon Clay, VP of Threat Intelligence, reviews seven key initial attack vectors and provides proactive security tips to help you reduce cyber risk across the attack surface...
US Microchip Giant Hit by Cyberattack, Disrupting Operations
Microchip Technology hit by cyberattack, disrupting manufacturing operations. A major disruption to semiconductor production has been reported, impacting…...
CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-28986 SolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber...
New Go-based Backdoor GoGra Targets South Asian Media Organization
An unnamed media organization in South Asia was targeted in November 20233 using a previously undocumented Go-based backdoor called GoGra. "GoGra is written in Go and uses the Microsoft Graph API to interact with a command-and-control C&C server hosted on Microsoft mail services," Symantec, part ...