People’s Republic of China (PRC) Ministry of State Security APT40 Tradecraft in Action

Overview Background This advisory, authored by the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre ASD’s ACSC, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the United States National Security Agency NSA, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigati...

5 Key Questions CISOs Must Ask Themselves About Their Cybersecurity Strategy

Events like the recent massive CDK ransomware attack – which shuttered car dealerships across the U.S. in late June 2024 – barely raise public eyebrows anymore. Yet businesses, and the people that lead them, are justifiably jittery. Every CISO knows that cybersecurity is an increasingly hot topic...

Apple Removes VPN Apps from Russian App Store Amid Government Pressure

Apple removed a number of virtual private network VPN apps in Russia from its App Store on July 4, 2024, following a request by Russia's state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, Russian news media reported. This includes the mobile apps of 25 VPN service providers, including Hidemy.name VPN, L...

An In-Depth Look at Crypto-Crime in 2023 Part 1

Cybersecurity is a growing concern in today's digital age, as more sensitive information is stored and transmitted online. With the rise of cryptocurrencies, there has also been a rise in crypto-crimes, which pose a significant threat to the security of both individuals and businesses...

New Mallox Ransomware Variant Targets Linux Systems

New variant of Mallox ransomware targets Linux systems using custom encryption and a builder web panel. Cybersecurity researchers…...

CVE-2024-6298

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images.mynonpublic.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3941094

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...

OVHcloud Hit with Record 840 Million PPS DDoS Attack Using MikroTik Routers

French cloud computing firm OVHcloud said it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack in April 2024 that reached a packet rate of 840 million packets per second Mpps. This is just above the previous record of 809 million Mpps reported by Akamai as targeting a large...

New Golang-Based Zergeca Botnet Capable of Powerful DDoS Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new botnet called Zergeca that's capable of conducting distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. Written in Golang, the botnet is so named for its reference to a string named "ootheca" present in the command-and-control C2 servers "ootheca.pw" and...

CGA-9H7M-M25V-QV4G

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Volcano Demon Ransomware Gang Makes Phone Calls to Victim for Ransom

According to cybersecurity researchers at Halcyon AI, the new Volcano Demon ransomware gang calls its victims "very frequently,…...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Restrict any user from Login to their account

A security vulnerability was discovered where an attacker could change their email address to the victim's email, effectively restricting the victim from accessing their account. The vulnerability stemmed from improper authentication on the "Update Profile" functionality of the website...

Microsoft Uncovers Critical Flaws in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus

Microsoft has revealed two security flaws in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus that could be weaponized by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code and trigger a denial-of-service DoS condition. "The remote code execution vulnerability in PanelView Plus involves two custom...

Twilio's Authy App Attack Exposes Millions of Phone Numbers

Cloud communications provider Twilio has revealed that unidentified threat actors took advantage of an unauthenticated endpoint in Authy to identify data associated with Authy accounts, including users' cell phone numbers. The company said it took steps to secure the endpoint to no longer accept...

China-linked Hackers Exploit Cisco NX-OS as Zero-Day

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Affirm says Evolve Bank data breach also compromised some of its customers

Buy now, pay later payment specialist Affirm has warned that holders of its payment cards had their personal information exposed after a ransomware attack and data breach at Evolve Bank & Trust. In a form 8-K, submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC, Affirm states: “Because the...

Israeli Entities Targeted by Cyberattack Using Donut and Sliver Frameworks

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an attack campaign that targets various Israeli entities with publicly-available frameworks like Donut and Sliver. The campaign, believed to be highly targeted in nature, "leverage target-specific infrastructure and custom WordPress websites as a payload...

South Korean ERP Vendor's Server Hacked to Spread Xctdoor Malware

An unnamed South Korean enterprise resource planning ERP vendor's product update server has been found to be compromised to deliver a Go-based backdoor dubbed Xctdoor. The AhnLab Security Intelligence Center ASEC, which identified the attack in May 2024, did not attribute it to a known threat act...

Cracking Cobalt Strike: Taking Down Malicious Cybercriminal Infrastructure with Threat Intelligence

Cracking Cobalt Strike Taking Down Malicious Cybercriminal Infrastructure with Threat Intelligence By Joao Marques, John Fokker and Leandro Velasco · July 3, 2024 Introduction In a significant global effort to combat cybercrime, law enforcement agencies from around the world have joined forces to...

How MFA Failures are Fueling a 500% Surge in Ransomware Losses

The cybersecurity threat landscape has witnessed a dramatic and alarming rise in the average ransomware payment, an increase exceeding 500%. Sophos, a global leader in cybersecurity, revealed in its annual "State of Ransomware 2024" report that the average ransom payment has increased 500% in the...