When Hackers Take Advantage of Your Trusted Vendors

As JavaScript-based client-side attacks continue to evolve, we see how attackers are getting more sophisticated and employing more advanced techniques. Unfortunately, it has been proven many times that any website partner can be exploited to carry out an attack. In the past month, we witnessed on...

First-Ever Russian BEC Gang, Cosmic Lynx, Uncovered

Researchers say they have discovered the first-ever reported Russian business email compromise BEC cybercriminal ring, showing that sophisticated attackers beyond the usual Nigerian scammers are setting their sights on the email-based attack vector. The BEC gang is called Cosmic Lynx, and has bee...

Community Health Systems APT Data Breach Medical Espionage

At first blush, the Community Health Systems data breach by Chinese hackers seems to be an anomaly. State-sponsored attackers generally target intellectual property for the purposes of military or economic gain; stealing healthcare credentials and personal patient records seems incongruous. But...

Hackers breach Twitter and 250,000 accounts compromised

In recent The Hacker News updates, we have reported about some major hacking events and critical vulnerabilities i.e Cyber attack and spying on The New York Times and Wall Street Journal by Chinese Hackers, Security Flaws in UPnP protocol, Botnet attack hack 16,000 Facebook accounts, 700,000...

Think Differently on Cybersecurity Or Fall Farther Behind, Former FBI Lawyer Says

People in the security industry often criticize the federal government for being woefully behind the times on information security, not understanding the current threat landscape and not having enough trained law enforcement agents who can handle sophisticated computer crimes. Steven Chabinsky...