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Western Digital My Book Live hard drives remotely wiped by hackers
By Habiba Rashid People are shocked to find out all of their data stored on their Western Digital My Book Live hard drives has been wiped out through a factory reset. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Western Digital My Book Live hard drives remotely wiped by hackers...
Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
Amazon acquires Wickr, the Senate holds up CISA, and more of the week’s top security news...
MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet
Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affect...
Cyber espionage by Chinese hackers in neighbouring nations is on the rise
A string of cyber espionage campaigns dating all the way back to 2014 and likely focused on gathering defense information from neighbouring countries have been linked to a Chinese military-intelligence apparatus. In a wide-ranging report published by Massachusetts-headquartered Recorded Future th...
Malware Attack on South Korean Entities Was Work of Andariel Group
A malware campaign targeting South Korean entities that came to light earlier this year has been attributed to a North Korean nation-state hacking group called Andariel, once again indicating that Lazarus attackers are following the trends and their arsenal is in constant development. "The way...
Peloton Bike+ Bug Gives Hackers Complete Control
The popular Peloton Bike+ and Peloton Tread exercise equipment contain a security vulnerability that could expose gym users to a wide variety of cyberattacks, from credential theft to surreptitious video recordings. According to research from McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research ATR team, the bug no...
Microsoft Gets Second Shot at Banning hiQ from Scraping LinkedIn User Data
The U.S. Supreme Court has granted LinkedIn another legal option to try to prevent rival hiQ Labs from scraping public information from its user profiles, something the Microsoft-owned professional networking platform has claimed is a violation of user privacy and a misuse of its data. The court...
NoxPlayer Supply-Chain Attack is Likely the Work of Gelsemium Hackers
A new cyber espionage group named Gelsemium has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting the NoxPlayer Android emulator that was disclosed earlier this year. The findings come from a systematic analysis of multiple campaigns undertaken by the APT crew, with evidence of the earliest attack...
A week in security (June 7 – June 13)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Amazon SIdewalk starts sharing your WiFi data tomorrow, thanks White hat, black hat, grey hat hackers: what’s the difference? Can two VPN “wrongs” make a right? Lock and Code S02E10 DOJ recovers pipeline ransom, signals more aggressive approach to cybercrime 800...
Chinese Hackers Believed to be Behind Second Cyberattack on Air India
Even as a massive data breach affecting Air India came to light the previous month, India's flag carrier airline appears to have suffered a separate cyber assault that lasted for a period of at least two months and 26 days, new research has revealed, which attributed the incident with moderate...
DarkSide Pwned Colonial With Old VPN Password
It took only one dusty, no-longer-used password for the DarkSide cybercriminals to breach the network of Colonial Pipeline Co. last month, resulting in a ransomware attack that caused significant disruption and remains under investigation by the U.S. government and cybersecurity experts. Attacker...
White hat, black hat, grey hat hackers: What’s the difference?
When you think of the world of ethical hackers white hat, malicious hackers black hat, and hackers that flirt with both sides grey hat, you may envision people in shiny trench coats and dark glasses, whose computer skills are only matched by their prowess in martial arts. The truth is that hacker...
SQL Injection Vulnerability in Tianrongxin Webpage Tampering Prevention System
Web anti-tampering system is a protection product specially researched and developed for website tampering attacks. The main function of the system is to provide all-around protection for the Web site directory through the underlying file driving technology, preventing hackers, viruses and other...
‘Battle for the Galaxy’ Mobile Game Leaks 6M Gamer Profiles
An Elasticsearch server holding personal data of 6 million players of the popular mobile game Battle for the Galaxy was discovered insecure and containing over 1 terabyte of unencrypted data, meaning anyone with a link could access data stored on the repository. Ethical hackers WizCase found the...
Hackers Actively Exploiting 0-Day in WordPress Plugin Installed on Over 17,000 Sites
Fancy Product Designer, a WordPress plugin installed on over 17,000 sites, has been discovered to contain a critical file upload vulnerability that's being actively exploited in the wild to upload malware onto sites that have the plugin installed. Wordfence's threat intelligence team, which...
US Seizes Domains Used by SolarWinds Hackers in Cyber Espionage Attacks
Days after Microsoft, Secureworks, and Volexity shed light on a new spear-phishing activity unleashed by the Russian hackers who breached SolarWinds IT management software, the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ Tuesday said it intervened to take control of two command-and-control C2 and malware...
Ransomware Hits a Food Supply Giant—and Underscores Dire Risk
Hackers targeting JBS USA have disrupted meat processing facilities around the world, just one month after the Colonial Pipeline attack caused fuel distribution havoc...
The Bizarro Streaming Site That Hackers Built From Scratch
BravoMovies isn’t real. But it goes to a remarkable amount of trouble to convince you that it is...
Hackers already claiming to have sold Domino’s, Air India databases
By Waqas Hackers behind Domino’s India alleged data breach have created an online search engine where anyone can search for victims' data. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers already claiming to have sold Domino’s, Air India databases...
Iranian hackers hit Israel with disk wiper in disguise of ransomware
By Deeba Ahmed According to SentinelOne, Iranian hackers have developed a combo of disk wiper and ransomware and their target is Israel. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Iranian hackers hit Israel with disk wiper in disguise of ransomware...