New Vulnerability in Popular WordPress Plugin Exposes Over 2 Million Sites to Cyberattacks

Users of Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress are being urged to update version 6.1.6 following the discovery of a security flaw. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-30777, relates to a case of reflected cross-site scripting XSS that could be abused to inject arbitrary executable...

Operation SpecTor: $53.4 Million Seized, 288 Vendors Arrested in Dark Web Drug Bust

An international law enforcement operation has resulted in the arrest of 288 vendors who are believed to be involved in drug trafficking on the dark web, adding to a long list of criminal enterprises that have been shuttered in recent years. The effort, codenamed Operation SpecTor , also saw the...

Money Message Ransomware Strikes with Million-Dollar Demands

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Money Message is a new ransomware group that targets victims all over the world, demanding million-dollar ransoms to avoid data leaks and deliver a decryptor. To receive real-time threat advisories, plea...

New Money Message Ransomware Gang Hits MSI, Threatens of Data Leak

By Waqas The Money Message ransomware group has reportedly demanded a ransom of $4 million from MSI. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Money Message Ransomware Gang Hits MSI, Threatens of Data Leak...

Cyber Police of Ukraine Busted Phishing Gang Responsible for $4.33 Million Scam

The Cyber Police of Ukraine, in collaboration with law enforcement officials from Czechia, has arrested several members of a cybercriminal gang that set up phishing sites to target European users. Two of the apprehended affiliates are believed to be organizers, with 10 others detained in other...

Cyber Police of Ukraine Busted Phishing Gang Responsible for $4.33 Million Scam

The Cyber Police of Ukraine, in collaboration with law enforcement officials from Czechia, has arrested several members of a cybercriminal gang that set up phishing sites to target European users. Two of the apprehended affiliates are believed to be organizers, with 10 others detained in other...

The US Is Sending Money to Countries Devastated by Cyberattacks

The White House is providing $25 million to Costa Rica, after giving Albania similar aid following aggression by hackers linked to Iran...

Latitude Financial Data Breach: 14 Million Customers Affected

By Waqas The CEO of Latitude Financial, Ahmed Fahour, has expressed disappointment in the incident and apologized unreservedly to customers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Latitude Financial Data Breach: 14 Million Customers Affected...

[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: kstars-3.6.3-1.fc38

KStars is a Desktop Planetarium. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects, all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids...

Fines as a Security System

Tile has an interesting security solution to make its tracking tags harder to use for stalking: The Anti-Theft Mode feature will make the devices invisible to Scan and Secure, the companys in-app feature that lets you know if any nearby Tiles are following you. But to activate the new Anti-Theft...

Indian Ticketing Platform RailYatri Hacked – 31 Million Impacted

By Waqas The RailYatri hack took place in December 2022, but the stolen data has only been leaked earlier today on a prominent hacker forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Indian Ticketing Platform RailYatri Hacked - 31 Million Impacted...

SUSE CVE-2004-1143

The password generation in mailman before 2.1.5 generates only 5 million unique passwords, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess passwords via a brute force attack...

SUSE CVE-2012-0884

The implementation of Cryptographic Message Syntax CMS and PKCS 7 in OpenSSL before 0.9.8u and 1.x before 1.0.0h does not properly restrict certain oracle behavior, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to decrypt data via a Million Message Attack MMA adaptive chosen ciphertext...

SUSE CVE-2021-29338

Integer Overflow in OpenJPEG v2.4.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application, causing a Denial of Service DoS. This occurs when the attacker uses the command line option "-ImgDir" on a directory that contains 1048576 files...

Massive HTTP DDoS Attack Hits Record High of 71 Million Requests/Second

Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second RPS. "The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second RPS with the largest...

U.S. No Fly List Leaked on Hacker Forum

By Waqas The leak includes the full names and dates of birth of 1.8 million individuals on the No-Fly List with suspected or known ties to terrorist organizations. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: U.S. No Fly List Leaked on Hacker Forum...

Realtek Vulnerability Under Attack: Over 134 Million Attempts to Hack IoT Devices

Researchers are warning about a spike in exploitation attempts weaponizing a now-patched critical remote code execution flaw in Realtek Jungle SDK since the start of August 2022. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the ongoing campaign is said to have recorded 134 million exploit attempts as...

Hive Ransomware Infrastructure Seized in Joint International Law Enforcement Effort

In what's a case of hacking the hackers, the darknet infrastructure associated with the Hive ransomware-as-a-service RaaS operation has been seized as part of a coordinated law enforcement effort involving 13 countries. "Law enforcement identified the decryption keys and shared them with many of...

Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Targeted Over 11 Million Devices with 1,700 Spoofed Apps

Researchers have shut down an "expansive" ad fraud scheme that spoofed more than 1,700 applications from 120 publishers and impacted roughly 11 million devices. "VASTFLUX was a malvertising attack that injected malicious JavaScript code into digital ad creatives, allowing the fraudsters to stack...

Happy 20th Birthday TaoSecurity Blog

Happy 20th birthday TaoSecurity Blog, born on 8 January 2003. Thank you Blogger Blogger now part of Google has continuously hosted this blog for 20 years, for free. I'd like to thank Blogger and Google for providing this platform for two decades. It's tough to find extant self-hosted security...