Journalist Targeted in USB Drive Bombing Attack

By Deeba Ahmed According to the attorney general of Ecuador, a terrorism investigation has been launched after the incident took place in the country. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Journalist Targeted in USB Drive Bombing Attack...

BreachForums to be shut down after all for fear of law enforcement infiltration

On March 15, 2023 US law enforcement arrested a man from New York who was accused of being the administrator of BreachForums, a well-known and probably the largest Dark Web marketplace for stolen data to be leaked and sold. At first, a new administrator rose to the occasion and said they were...

Windows 11 and 10’s Snipping Tools Vulnerable to Data Exposure

By Waqas Microsoft has stated that they are aware of the issue and are investigating, adding that they will take action to help keep customers protected. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Windows 11 and 10s Snipping Tools Vulnerable to Data Exposure...

Important: python-certifi

Issue Overview: Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. Certifi 2022.12.07 removes root certificates from "TrustCor" from the root store. These are in the process of being removed from...

Important: ca-certificates

Issue Overview: Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. Certifi 2022.12.07 removes root certificates from "TrustCor" from the root store. These are in the process of being removed from...

CVE-2023-28426

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: GHSA-xrqq-wqh4-5hg2. Reason: Further investigation showed that this CVE was assigned in error. Notes: See https://github.com/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer/issues/88 for a technical discussion...

I Got Investigated by the Secret Service. Here's How to Not Be Me

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International Law Enforcement Takes Down Infamous NetWire Cross-Platform RAT

A coordinated international law enforcement exercise has taken down the online infrastructure associated with a cross-platform remote access trojan RAT known as NetWire. Coinciding with the seizure of the sales website www.worldwiredlabs.com, a Croatian national who is suspected to be the website...

International Law Enforcement Takes Down Infamous NetWire Cross-Platform RAT

A coordinated international law enforcement exercise has taken down the online infrastructure associated with a cross-platform remote access trojan RAT known as NetWire. Coinciding with the seizure of the sales website www.worldwiredlabs.com, a Croatian national who is suspected to be the website...

Examining Ransomware Payments From a Data-Science Lens

In this entry, we discuss case studies that demonstrated how data-science techniques were applied in our investigation of ransomware groups' ransom transactions, as detailed in our joint research with Waratah Analytics, “What Decision-Makers Need to Know About Ransomware Risk.”...

Hacker Leaks 73M Records from Indian HDFC Bank Subsidiary

By Waqas While HDFC Bank has denied any data breach, its subsidiary, HDB Financial Services, has confirmed there was a cybersecurity-related incident which is being investigated. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker Leaks 73M Records from Indian HDFC Bank Subsidiary...

Play ransomware gang leaks City of Oakland data

The Play ransomware gang has begun partially publishing data they stole from the City of Oakland, California. The data were in multiple archive files with a collective file size of 10GB. According to the ransomware gang, the files contain "private and personal information data, financial...

Malicious Package

Overview @chegg/wtai-upload-widget is a malicious package. The package's name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components used by popular companies in an effort to trick employees into downloading it, also known as 'dependency confusion'. Therefore, you're only vulnerable if this...

CVE-2023-1103

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was a duplicate of CVE-2022-4821. Notes: none...

US Marshals Service hit by ransomware and data breach

The US Marshals Service USMS says it's suffered a ransomware attack in which a threat actor managed to get hold of sensitive information about staff and fugitives. On February 17, 2023, the attacker infiltrated a system that held information about ongoing investigations, including personally...

K000132764: SSL Certificates in Mozilla vulnerability CVE-2022-23491

Security Advisory Description Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. Certifi 2022.12.07 removes root certificates from "TrustCor" from the root store. These are in the process of being...

TikTok probed over child privacy practices

The privacy protection authorities for Canada, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta have announced they will start an investigation into TikTok's privacy practices, especially in relation to its younger users. The investigation will include whether the company obtained valid and meaningful conse...

Amazon Linux AMI : ca-certificates (ALAS-2023-1690)

The version of ca-certificates installed on the remote host is prior to 2018.2.22-65.1.29. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1690 advisory. Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while...

K58304450: Multiple Intel Processor vulnerabilities: Spectre-NG

Security Advisory Description Eight new vulnerabilities in Intel processors have been mentioned in several sources and are referred to collectively as Spectre-NG. F5 is aware of these vulnerabilities and is investigating as information becomes available. As Intel officially recognizes and announc...

Tor: Snowflake server: Leak of TLS packets from other clients

TLS packets from other clients were leaked to Snowflake clients due to a vulnerability in the Snowflake pluggable transport server. This issue allowed Snowflake clients to receive "ghost" packets at the KCP layer, containing TLS packets unrelated to the current session. The leaked packets include...