Securely Advancing in the Sunshine State: Rapid7 Announces Tampa Office Opening

In our quest to create a safer digital world for all, Rapid7 is also on a mission to reimagine the future of work, culture, and talent — admittedly, we've set the bar pretty high for ourselves. But that's part of the spirit of Never Done, one of our core values. We're always striving to do better...

Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents

In 2018, Andrew Schober was digitally mugged for approximately $1 million worth of bitcoin. After several years of working with investigators, Schober says hes confident he has located two young men in the United Kingdom responsible for using a clever piece of digital clipboard-stealing malware t...

Indictments, Attribution Unlikely to Deter Chinese Hacking

The federal government is fighting back against what it says are China-based cyberattacks against U.S. universities and companies with indictments and a “naming-and-shaming” approach — but researchers aren’t convinced the efforts will come to much in terms of deterring future activity. On Monday,...

ForgeRock AM code issue vulnerability

ForgeRock AM is an open source access management, privilege control platform with widespread use in universities and social organizations.ForgeRock AM is vulnerable to a code issue that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code by constructing a special...

Cl0p ransomware gang leaks sensitive data from 6 US universites

By Habiba Rashid For now, there has been no confirmation from any of the universities if they were targeted and breached by the Cl0p ransomware gang. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cl0p ransomware gang leaks sensitive data from 6 US universites...

University Email Hijacking Attacks Push Phishing, Malware

Cybercriminals are hijacking legitimate email accounts from more than a dozen universities – including Purdue University, University of Oxford in the U.K. and Stanford University – and using the accounts to bypass detection and trick victims into handing over their email credentials or installing...

Iranian APT group hits schools, universities in global spear phishing attacks

By Waqas The APT group known as Silent Librarian has increased its spear phishing attacks as schools and universities are back. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Iranian APT group hits schools, universities in global spear phishing attacks...

Silent Librarian Goes Back to School with Global Research-Stealing Effort

The Silent Librarian campaign has re-emerged for the fall school session, actively targeting students and faculty at universities via spear-phishing campaigns. The threat group also known as TA407 and Cobalt Dickens, which operates out of Iran, has been on the prowl since the start of the 2019...

Silent Librarian APT right on schedule for 20/21 academic year

A threat actor known as Silent Librarian/TA407/COBALT DICKENS has been actively targeting universities via spear phishing campaigns since schools and universities went back. In mid-September, we were tipped off by one of our customers about a new active campaign from this APT group. Based off a...

VideoBytes: Ransomware gets wasted!

Hello dear readers, and welcome to the latest edition of VideoBytes! On todays episode, were talking about how ransomware is on the rise again, focused on attacking corporations with malware that not only encrypts files, but also steals it. The tactics used to deploy these forms of ransomware hav...

California Elementary Kids Kicked Off Online Learning by Ransomware

As students head back to the classroom, the spate of ransomware attacks against schools is continuing. The latest is a strike against a California school district that closed down remote learning for 6,000 elementary school students, according to city officials. The cyberattack, against the Newha...

Ransomware And Zoom-Bombing: Cyberattacks Disrupt Back-to-School Plans

UPDATE A slew of ransomware attacks and other cyberthreats have plagued back-to-school plans — as if dealing with the pandemic weren’t stressful enough for administrators. Just this week, attacks in Hartford, Conn. and Clark County, Nev. forced public schools to postpone the first day of school, ...

A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers

FritzFrog has been used to try and infiltrate government agencies, banks, telecom companies, and universities across the US and Europe...

Sensitive data of cyber security firm & other businesses leaked online

By Sudais Asif Other than the cyber security firm, the leaked data belongs to universities, an insurance firm, non-profit, and public limited firms. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Sensitive data of cyber security firm & other businesses leaked online...

The Bondnet Army

Guardicore Labs has recently picked up Bondnet, a botnet of thousands of compromised servers of varying power. Managed and controlled remotely, the Bondnet is currently used to mine different cryptocurrencies and is ready to be weaponized immediately for other purposes such as mounting DDoS attac...

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Critical Bugs Found in 3 Popular e-Learning Plugins for WordPress Sites

Security researchers are sounding the alarm over newly discovered vulnerabilities in some popular online learning management system LMS plugins that various organizations and universities use to offer online training courses through their WordPress-based websites. According to the Check Point...

Researchers Uncover Novel Way to De-anonymize Device IDs to Users' Biometrics

Researchers have uncovered a potential means to profile and track online users using a novel approach that combines device identifiers with their biometric information. The details come from a newly published research titled "Nowhere to Hide: Cross-modal Identity Leakage between Biometrics and...

CVE-2019-15073

An Open Redirect vulnerability for all browsers in MAIL2000 through version 6.0 and 7.0, which will redirect to a malicious site without authentication. This vulnerability affects many mail system of governments, organizations, companies and universities...

CVE-2019-15073

An Open Redirect vulnerability for all browsers in MAIL2000 through version 6.0 and 7.0, which will redirect to a malicious site without authentication. This vulnerability affects many mail system of governments, organizations, companies and universities...