BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks

Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt has unmasked the real identities of two of the key figures associated with the now-defunct REvil aka Sodinokibi ransomware-as-a-service RaaS operation. One of the threat actors, who went by the alias UNKN , functioned as a...

Intel Sues Ex-Engineer for Stealing 18,000 ‘Top Secret’ Files

Intel, the leading computer chip maker, has filed a lawsuit seeking at least $250,000 in damages from a…...

Court Rules Against NSO Group

The case is over: A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group for exploiting a software vulnerability that hijacked the phones of thousands of users. I'm sure it'll be appealed. Everything always is...

WhatsApp hack: Meta wins payout over NSO Group spyware

Meta has won almost $170m in damages from Israel-based NSO Group, maker of the Pegasus spyware. The ruling comes after a six-year legal case against the company after Meta accused it of misusing its servers to spy on users. According to the original complaint against NSO Group, filed in October...

NSO Group Fined $168M for Targeting 1,400 WhatsApp Users With Pegasus Spyware

A federal jury on Tuesday decided that NSO Group must pay Meta-owned WhatsApp WhatsApp approximately $168 million in monetary damages, more than four months after a federal judge ruled that the Israeli company violated U.S. laws by exploiting WhatsApp servers to deploy Pegasus spyware, targeting...

Microsoft’s Secure by Design journey: One year of success

Cybersecurity is one of the top risks facing businesses. Organizations are struggling to navigate the ever-evolving cyberthreat landscape in which 600 million identity attacks are carried out daily.1 The median time for a cyberattacker to access private data from phishing is 1 hour and 12 minutes...

LockBit Developer Rostislav Panev Charged for Billions in Global Ransomware Damages

A dual Russian and Israeli national has been charged in the United States for allegedly being the developer of the now-defunct LockBit ransomware-as-a-service RaaS operation since its inception in or around 2019 through at least February 2024. Rostislav Panev , 51, was arrested in Israel earlier...

CVE-2024-55580

An issue was discovered in Qlik Sense Enterprise for Windows before November 2024 IR. Unprivileged users with network access may be able to execute remote commands that could cause high availability damages, including high integrity and confidentiality risks. This is fixed in November 2024 IR, Ma...

CVE-2024-3961

The ConvertKit – Email Newsletter, Email Marketing, Subscribers and Landing Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the tagsubscriber function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2024-3961 ConvertKit <= 2.4.9 - Missing Authorization

The ConvertKit – Email Newsletter, Email Marketing, Subscribers and Landing Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the tagsubscriber function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2024-22208 phpMyFAQ sharing FAQ functionality can easily be abused for phishing purposes

phpMyFAQ is an Open Source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases. The 'sharing FAQ' functionality allows any unauthenticated actor to misuse the phpMyFAQ application to send arbitrary emails to a large range of targets. The phpMyFAQ application has a...

Google Settles $5 Billion Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking Users in 'Incognito Mode'

Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in June 2020 that alleged that the company misled users by tracking their surfing activity who thought that their internet use remained private when using the "incognito" or "private" mode on web browsers. The class-action lawsuit sought at least $5...

Reentrancy in validateTransaction function

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The contract can be called by an attacker several times until the money are depleted. The contract owner may suffer financial damages as a result of this vulnerability. Description The validateTransaction function in line 66-71 accepts external calls and...

Arrested: Fearmongering data thieves who victimized thousands of businesses

The Dutch police have announced the arrest of three more suspects in one of the biggest data extortion cases to date. The men, all aged between 18 and 21, were allegedly involved in extorting businesses and selling stolen data to other criminals. During a two-year investigation the police learned...

X (Formerly Twitter): Ability to getting Twitter Blue verified badge without purchase it

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Activision Files Unusual Lawsuit over Call of Duty Cheat Codes

Activision, publisher of the enormously popular gaming franchise Call of Duty, has taken an extraordinary step to try and shut down cheat software by suing the popular site EngineOwning EO. EO develops and sells software tools to players looking for an edge. EO cheats for Call of Duty include...

Apple Lawsuit Amps Up Pressure on Pegasus Spyware-Maker

In the wake of a zero-click zero-day exploit that was deployed against iPhone users, Apple has filed a lawsuit against NSO Group. The complaint alleges that the maker of the infamous Pegasus mobile spyware is responsible for the illegal surveillance of Apple users. The computing giant is looking...

Clop stopped? Ransomware gang loses Tesla and other treasures in police raid

Ukrainian law enforcement officials announced Wednesday that they had arrested several individuals involved in criminal activity committed by the Clop ransomware gang, a cybercriminal gang that helped popularize the “double extortion” model of not only threatening to encrypt a victim’s files, but...

Ukraine Police Arrest Cyber Criminals Behind Clop Ransomware Attacks

Ukrainian law enforcement officials on Wednesday announced the arrest of the Clop ransomware gang, adding it disrupted the infrastructure employed in attacks targeting victims worldwide since at least 2019. As part of an international operation between the National Police of Ukraine and authoriti...

Post-Cyberattack, Universal Health Services Faces $67M in Losses

The cyberattack that hit Universal Health Services UHS in September has cost the healthcare service provider a whopping $67 million in damages, according to financial statements. A fourth-quarter earnings report last week from UHS highlighted the “significant incremental labor expense” needed to...