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Russia's Sandworm Hackers Attempted a Third Blackout in Ukraine
The attack was the first in five years to use Sandworm's Industroyer malware, which is designed to automatically trigger power disruptions...
How Russia's Invasion Triggered a US Crackdown on Its Hackers
The Biden White House is using “all of the levers of national power” to counter—or preempt—cyberattacks by Russia’s most dangerous hacker groups...
Hamas-linked Hackers Targeting High-Ranking Israelis Using 'Catfish' Lures
A threat actor with affiliations to the cyber warfare division of Hamas has been linked to an "elaborate campaign" targeting high-profile Israeli individuals employed in sensitive defense, law enforcement, and emergency services organizations. "The campaign operators use sophisticated social...
Hackers Using Fake Police Data Requests against Tech Companies
Brian Krebs has a detailed post about hackers using fake police data requests to trick companies into handing over data. Virtually all major technology companies serving large numbers of users online have departments that routinely review and process such requests, which are typically granted as...
Researchers Uncover New Android Spyware With C2 Server Linked to Turla Hackers
An Android spyware application has been spotted masquerading as a "Process Manager" service to stealthily siphon sensitive information stored in the infected devices. Interestingly, the app — that has the package name "com.remote.app" — establishes contact with a remote command-and-control server...
Blockchains Have a ‘Bridge’ Problem, and Hackers Know It
Blockchain bridges are a crucial piece of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, which makes them prime targets for attacks...
North Korean Hackers Distributing Trojanized DeFi Wallet Apps to Steal Victims' Crypto
The North Korean state-backed hacking crew, otherwise known as the Lazarus Group, has been attributed to yet another financially motivated campaign that leverages a trojanized decentralized finance DeFi wallet app to distribute a fully-featured backdoor onto compromised Windows systems. The app,...
Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill
On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S. Senates most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was trouble...
Hackers Increasingly Using 'Browser-in-the-Browser' Technique in Ukraine Related Attacks
A Belarusian threat actor known as Ghostwriter aka UNC1151 has been spotted leveraging the recently disclosed browser-in-the-browser BitB technique as part of their credential phishing campaigns exploiting the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The method, which masquerades as a legitimate domain ...
Chrome Zero-Day from North Korea
North Korean hackers have been exploiting a zero-day in Chrome. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-0609, was exploited by two separate North Korean hacking groups. Both groups deployed the same exploit kit on websites that either belonged to legitimate organizations and were hacked or were set up for...
Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake “Emergency Data Requests”
There is a terrifying and highly effective "method" that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government...
'Purple Fox' Hackers Spotted Using New Variant of FatalRAT in Recent Malware Attacks
The operators of the Purple Fox malware have retooled their malware arsenal with a new variant of a remote access trojan called FatalRAT, while also simultaneously upgrading their evasion mechanisms to bypass security software. "Users' machines are targeted via trojanized software packages...
Hunt for Lapsus$ Hackers Leads to a British Teen
Plus: New details emerge about Russian hacks and hackers as the US warns of potential new attacks...
Google Issues Urgent Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability
Google on Friday shipped an out-of-band security update to address a high severity vulnerability in its Chrome browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-1096, the zero-day flaw relates to a type confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine. An...
North Korean Hackers Exploited Chrome Zero-Day to Target Fintech, IT, and Media Firms
Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG on Thursday disclosed that it acted to mitigate threats from two distinct government-backed attacker groups based in North Korea that exploited a recently-uncovered remote code execution flaw in the Chrome web browser. The campaigns, once again "reflective of th...
Feds Allege Destructive Russian Hackers Targeted US Refineries
The Justice Department unsealed indictments against four alleged Russian hackers said to have targeted US energy infrastructure for nearly a decade...
Microsoft and Okta Confirm Data Breach Claims by LAPSUS$
By Deeba Ahmed Both companies have confirmed the breach after Lapsus$ hackers leaked screenshots of Oktas internal system and source code… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft and Okta Confirm Data Breach Claims by LAPSUS$...
LAPSUS$ Hackers Claim to Have Breached Microsoft and Authentication Firm Okta
Microsoft and authentication services provider Okta said they are investigating claims of a potential breach alleged by the LAPSUS$ extortionist gang. The development, which was first reported by Vice and Reuters, comes after the cyber criminal group posted screenshots and source code of what it...
White House Warns of Possible Russian Cyberattacks
News: The White House has issued its starkest warning that Russia may be planning cyberattacks against critical-sector U.S. companies amid the Ukraine invasion. … Context: The alert comes after Russia has lobbed a series of digital attacks at the Ukrainian government and critical industry sectors...