Anonymous Declares Cyber War Against Pro-Russia Hacker Group Killnet

By Waqas The Pro-Russia Hacker Group Killnet recently targeted European institutions, while Anonymous hackers are already claiming to have leaked… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Declares Cyber War Against Pro-Russia Hacker Group Killnet...

A Short Guide to Understanding the Exciting Realm of Fintech

By Owais Sultan Fintech is skyrocketing in popularity, posing the first serious challenge to legacy financial institutions. What is it &… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A Short Guide to Understanding the Exciting Realm of Fintech...

Ransomware Deals Deathblow to 157-year-old College

Illinois-based Lincoln College was established during the U.S. Civil War. Since then it has weathered two world wars, the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, the Great Recession and a devastating fire. But two things it couldn’t survive? A ransomware attack and financial pressures tied to the impa...

VHD Ransomware Linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group

Cryptocurrency thief Lazarus Group appears to be widening its scope into using ransomware as a way to rip off financial institutions and other targets in the Asia-Pacific APAC region, researchers have found. Financial transactions and similarities to previous malware in its source code link a...

CVE-2022-29585

In Mahara before 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2, and 22.04.0, a site using Isolated Institutions is vulnerable if more than ten groups are used. They are all shown from page 2 of the group results list rather than only being shown for the institution that the viewer is a member of...

CVE-2022-29585

In Mahara before 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2, and 22.04.0, a site using Isolated Institutions is vulnerable if more than ten groups are used. They are all shown from page 2 of the group results list rather than only being shown for the institution that the viewer is a member of...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Mahara before 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2, and 22.04.0, a site using Isolated Institutions is vulnerable if more than ten groups are used. They are all shown from page 2 of the group results list rather than only being shown for the institution that the viewer is a member of...

CVE-2022-29585

In Mahara before 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2, and 22.04.0, a site using Isolated Institutions is vulnerable if more than ten groups are used. They are all shown from page 2 of the group results list rather than only being shown for the institution that the viewer is a member of...

CVE-2022-29585

In Mahara before 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2, and 22.04.0, a site using Isolated Institutions is vulnerable if more than ten groups are used. They are all shown from page 2 of the group results list rather than only being shown for the institution that the viewer is a member of...

CVE-2022-29585

CVE-2022-29585 affects Mahara versions prior to 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2, and 22.04.0. The issue arises in sites using Isolated Institutions where, when more than ten groups are used, all groups are listed on page 2 of the group results instead of only those belonging to the viewer’s institution...

Iranian Hackers Targeting Turkey and Arabian Peninsula in New Malware Campaign

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new swarm of attacks targeting Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula with the goal of deploying remote access trojans RATs on compromised systems. "The MuddyWater supergroup is highly motivated and can use unauthoriz...

Russia May Use Ransomware Payouts to Avoid Sanctions

Russia may ramp up ransomware attacks against the United States as a way to ease the financial hurt it’s under due to sanctions, U.S. federal authorities are warning. Those sanctions have been levied against the nation and Vladimir Putin’s government due to its invasion of Ukraine. The Financial...

TeaBot Android Banking Malware Spreads Again Through Google Play Store Apps

An Android banking trojan designed to steal credentials and SMS messages has been observed once again sneaking past Google Play Store protections to target users of more than 400 banking and financial apps, including those from Russia, China, and the U.S. "TeaBot RAT capabilities are achieved via...

Geopolitical Tensions Increase Risk of DDoS Attacks Among Other Damaging Intrusions

With Ukraine moving beyond the brink of war with an official invasion by Russia underway, organizations both near and afar must brace for potential repercussions in the form of crippling cyberattacks and intrusions. Already Ukraine has been bombarded with DDoS assaults aimed at taking down...

Russia Sanctions May Spark Escalating Cyber Conflict

President Biden joined European leaders this week in enacting economic sanctions against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. The West has promised tougher sanctions are coming, but experts warn these will almost certainly trigger a Russian retaliation against America and its allies,...

Chinese APT group targets financial institutions in the campaign “Operation Cache Panda”

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Chinese threat actor APT10 conducted a series of large-scale supply chain attacks that exclusively targeted the financial software systems of Taiwanese financial institutions from the end of November 2021 until the middle of...

Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan's Financial Trading Sector with Supply Chain Attack

An advanced persistent threat APT group operating with objectives aligned with the Chinese government has been linked to an organized supply chain attack on Taiwan's financial sector. The attacks are said to have first commenced at the end of November 2021, with the intrusions attributed to a...

Chinese Hackers Target Taiwanese Financial Institutions with a new Stealthy Backdoor

A Chinese advanced persistent threat APT group has been targeting Taiwanese financial institutions as part of a "persistent campaign" that lasted for at least 18 months. The intrusions, whose primary intent was espionage, resulted in the deployment of a backdoor called xPack, granting the adversa...

Reasons Why Every Business is a Target of DDoS Attacks

DDoS Distributed Denial of Service attacks are making headlines almost every day. 2021 saw a 434% upsurge in DDoS attacks, 5.5 times higher than 2020. Q3 2021 saw a 24% increase in the number of DDoS attacks in comparison to Q3 2020. Advanced DDoS attacks that are typically targeted, known as sma...

North Korean Hackers Return with Stealthier Variant of KONNI RAT Malware

A cyberespionage group with ties to North Korea has resurfaced with a stealthier variant of its remote access trojan called Konni to attack political institutions located in Russia and South Korea. "The authors are constantly making code improvements," Malwarebytes researcher Roberto Santos said...