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...

FBI Disrupts Chinese State-Backed Volt Typhoon’s KV Botnet

By Waqas The KV Botnet, a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor group gained widespread attention for compromising hundreds of U.S.-based small office/home office SOHO routers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI Disrupts Chinese State-Backed Volt Typhoons KV Botnet...

U.S. Treasury Imposes Sanctions on Alleged ISIS Cybersecurity Experts

By Waqas The US Treasury Department announced sanctions against two Egyptian nationals, Mu'min Al-Mawji Mahmud Salim and Sarah Jamal Muhammad Al-Sayyid, for running the Electronic Horizons Foundation EHF, a platform allegedly providing cyber tools and training to ISIS supporters. This is a post...

uschemicalstorage.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3846250

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans’ Data Without a Warrant

US spy agencies purchased Americans’ phone location data and internet metadata without a warrant but only admitted it after a US senator blocked the appointment of a new NSA director...

2024 State of Ransomware in Education: 92% spike in K-12 attacks

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes’ ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. In this report, “known attacks” are those where the victim did not pay a ransom. This provides the best overall picture of...

us-satellite.net Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3839498

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

US Agencies Urged to Patch Ivanti VPNs That Are Actively Being Hacked

Plus: Microsoft says attackers accessed employee emails, Walmart fails to stop gift card fraud, “pig butchering” scams fuel violence in Myanmar, and more...

Google failing to scrub abortion access in location history, study claims

Nearly 16 months after Google announced a policy change to remove location data that could reveal users’ physical trips to abortion clinics and other potentially sensitive medical centers, a nonprofit has alleged in a new report that the company is failing to do just that. The findings, which wer...

‘Stablecoins’ Enabled $40 Billion in Crypto Crime Since 2022

A new report from Chainalysis finds that stablecoins like Tether, tied to the value of the US dollar, were used in the vast majority of crypto-based scam transactions and sanctions evasion in 2023...

Modernize Federal Cybersecurity Strategy with FedRAMP

Detection and response will be critical for the U.S. Government to modernize security operations and stay ahead of cyber-attacks...

A true tale of virtual kidnapping: Lock and Code S05E02

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… On Thursday, December 28, at 8:30 pm in the Utah town of Riverdale, the city police began investigating what they believed was a kidnapping. 17-year-old foreign exchange student Kai Zhuang was missing, and according to Riverdale Police Chief Casey Warren,...

CVE-2020-26627

A Time-Based SQL Injection vulnerability was discovered in Hospital Management System V4.0 which can allow an attacker to dump database information via a crafted payload entered into the 'Admin Remark' parameter under the 'Contact Us Queries - Unread Query' tab...

Sql injection

A Time-Based SQL Injection vulnerability was discovered in Hospital Management System V4.0 which can allow an attacker to dump database information via a crafted payload entered into the 'Admin Remark' parameter under the 'Contact Us Queries - Unread Query' tab...

Hospital Management System SQL注入漏洞

A Hospital Management System HMS is a computerized system that helps manage healthcare-related information and helps healthcare providers do their jobs effectively. Hospital Management System V4.0 and prior versions suffer from a SQL injection vulnerability that stems from the application's lack ...

CVE-2020-26627

A Time-Based SQL Injection vulnerability was discovered in Hospital Management System V4.0 which can allow an attacker to dump database information via a crafted payload entered into the 'Admin Remark' parameter under the 'Contact Us Queries - Unread Query' tab...

AsyncRAT Infiltrates Key US Infrastructure Through GIFs and SVGs

By Deeba Ahmed Undetected for Over 11 Months, AsyncRAT Lurked on Systems of Sensitive US Agencies with Critical Infrastructures, reports the… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: AsyncRAT Infiltrates Key US Infrastructure Through GIFs and SVGs...

Facial Recognition Systems in the US

A helpful summary of which US retail stores are using facial recognition, thinking about using it, or currently not planning on using it. This, of course, can all change without notice. Three years ago, I wrote that campaigns to ban facial recognition are too narrow. The problem here is...

Congress Sure Made a Lot of Noise About Kids’ Privacy in 2023—and Not Much Else

Members of the US Congress touted improvements to children’s privacy protections as an urgent priority. So why didn’t they do anything about it?...

Siemens Industrial Products Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2019-11478)

Multiple industrial products are affected by a vulnerability in the kernel known as TCP SACK PANIC. A remote attacker could cause a denial of service condition by sending specially crafted TCP Selective Acknowledgment SACK sequences to affected products. This plugin only works with Tenable.ot...