Chained Exploits, Stolen VPN Access: Hackers Target Ivanti Users Despite Patches

By Deeba Ahmed Zero-Day Nightmare: CVE-2024-21893 Exploits Surge in Attacks on Ivanti Products. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chained Exploits, Stolen VPN Access: Hackers Target Ivanti Users Despite Patches...

Ethical Hackers Reported 835 Vulnerabilities, Earned $450K in 2023

By Deeba Ahmed The US Department of Defense reported the most security vulnerabilities in 2023, with 96 reports or 10% of all reports. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ethical Hackers Reported 835 Vulnerabilities, Earned $450K in 2023...

China’s Hackers Keep Targeting US Water and Electricity Supplies

Plus: Russia was likely behind widespread GPS outages, Vault 7 leaker was sentenced, police claim to trace Monero cryptocurrency, and more...

Russian APT28 Hackers Targeting High-Value Orgs with NTLM Relay Attacks

Russian state-sponsored actors have staged NT LAN Manager NTLM v2 hash relay attacks through various methods from April 2022 to November 2023, targeting high-value targets worldwide. The attacks, attributed to an "aggressive" hacking crew called APT28, have set their eyes on organizations dealing...

Cloudflare Breach: Nation-State Hackers Access Source Code and Internal Docs

Cloudflare has revealed that it was the target of a likely nation-state attack in which the threat actor leveraged stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access to its Atlassian server and ultimately access some documentation and a limited amount of source code. The intrusion, which took place...

Hackers Uncover Airbus EFB App Vulnerability, Risking Aircraft Data

By Deeba Ahmed In this instance, the hackers were white hat; otherwise, things could have gone awry. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Uncover Airbus EFB App Vulnerability, Risking Aircraft Data...

Smarter, Meaner, Sneakier: Security Trends for 2024

Learn how hackers are getting smarter, ruder, meaner, and sneakier and what to do about it with this overview of cybersecurity trends in 2024...

China-Linked Hackers Target Myanmar's Top Ministries with Backdoor Blitz

The China-based threat actor known as Mustang Panda is suspected to have targeted Myanmar's Ministry of Defence and Foreign Affairs as part of twin campaigns designed to deploy backdoors and remote access trojans. The findings come from CSIRT-CTI, which said the activities took place in November...

23andMe Failed to Detect Account Intrusions for Months

Plus: North Korean hackers get into generative AI, a phone surveillance tool that can monitor billions of devices gets exposed, and ambient light sensors pose a new privacy risk...

Hackers Crack Tesla Twice, Rake in $1.3 Million at Pwn2Own Automotive

By Deeba Ahmed Vendors have 90 days to release security patches before Trend Micro publicly discloses it. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Crack Tesla Twice, Rake in $1.3 Million at Pwn2Own Automotive...

Pwn2Own Automotive: Tesla, Sony, Alpine Players Breached on Day One

By Deeba Ahmed Bug Bounty Bonanza: Hackers Rake in Big Bucks as Connected Cars Show Security Cracks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Pwn2Own Automotive: Tesla, Sony, Alpine Players Breached on Day One...

How a Group of Israel-Linked Hackers Has Pushed the Limits of Cyberwar

From repeatedly crippling thousands of gas stations to setting a steel mill on fire, Predatory Sparrow’s offensive hacking has now targeted Iranians with some of history's most aggressive cyberattacks...

Tech Giant HP Enterprise Hacked by Russian Hackers Linked to DNC Breach

Hackers with links to the Kremlin are suspected to have infiltrated information technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise's HPE cloud email environment to exfiltrate mailbox data. "The threat actor accessed and exfiltrated data beginning in May 2023 from a small percentage of HPE mailboxes...

HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers

The company says it wants to protect you from “viruses.” Experts are skeptical...

Microsoft Executives’ Emails Breached by Russia Hackers

By Waqas The SolarWinds-infamous hackers, Nobelium, have struck again. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Executives Emails Breached by Russia Hackers...

Chinese Hackers Silently Weaponized VMware Zero-Day Flaw for 2 Years

An advanced China-nexus cyber espionage group previously linked to the exploitation of security flaws in VMware and Fortinet appliances has been attributed to the abuse of a critical vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server as a zero-day since late 2021. "UNC3886 has a track record of utilizing...

Iranian Hackers Masquerade as Journalists to Spy on Israel-Hamas War Experts

High-profile individuals working on Middle Eastern affairs at universities and research organizations in Belgium, France, Gaza, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S. have been targeted by an Iranian cyber espionage group called Mind Sandstorm since November 2023. The threat actor "used bespoke phishing...

Turkish Hackers Exploiting Poorly Secured MS SQL Servers Across the Globe

Poorly secured Microsoft SQL MS SQL servers are being targeted in the U.S., European Union, and Latin American LATAM regions as part of an ongoing financially motivated campaign to gain initial access. "The analyzed threat campaign appears to end in one of two ways, either the selling of 'access'...

SpectralBlur: New macOS Backdoor Threat from North Korean Hackers

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Apple macOS backdoor called SpectralBlur that overlaps with a known malware family that has been attributed to North Korean threat actors. "SpectralBlur is a moderately capable backdoor that can upload/download files, run a shell, update its...

Russian Hackers Had Covert Access to Ukraine's Telecom Giant for Months

Ukrainian cybersecurity authorities have disclosed that the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Sandworm was inside telecom operator Kyivstar's systems at least since May 2023. The development was first reported by Reuters. The incident, described as a "powerful hacker attack," first ca...