Security Roundup: Leak of Top-Secret US Intel Risks a New Wave of Mass Surveillance

Plus: Hackers claim to have stolen 10 TB from Western Digital, a new spyware has emerged, and WhatsApp gets a fresh security feature...

Leaked Pentagon Documents May Herald a New Era of Revelations

The bizarre release of sensitive US government materials soon after their creation signals a potential shift to near-real-time unauthorized disclosures...

US, India and China Most Targeted in DDoS Attacks, StormWall Q1 2023 Report

By Waqas DDoS attacks have surged by 47% in Q1 2023, according to a StormWall report. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US, India and China Most Targeted in DDoS Attacks, StormWall Q1 2023 Report...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2023 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly round of security updates and patches today, continuing its trend of fixing zero-day vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday. Aprils security update includes one vulnerability thats actively being exploited in the wild. There are also eight critical vulnerabilities and the...

MERCURY and DEV-1084: Destructive attack on hybrid environment

April 2023 update – Microsoft Threat Intelligence has shifted to a new threat actor naming taxonomy aligned around the theme of weather. MERCURY is now tracked as Mango Sandstorm and DEV-1084 is now tracked as Storm-1084. To learn more about the new taxonomy represents the origin, unique traits,...

PT-2023-19981 · Tenda · Tenda Ac5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Tenda AC5 version US AC5V1.0RTL V15.03.06.28 Description: The issue is related to a stack overflow via the fromSetSysTime function, allowing attackers to cause a Denial of Service DoS or execute arbitrary code via a crafted payload...

New Strain of Rorschach Ransomware Targeting US- Firms

By Deeba Ahmed Rorschach ransomware boasts advanced encryption technology and can spread automatically on the machine if executed on a domain controller. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Strain of Rorschach Ransomware Targeting US- Firms...

Fake ransomware demands payment without actually encrypting files

Fake it till you make it ransomware groups are trying to get rich off the backs of genuine ransomware authors. Why are they "fake it till you make it"? Because they dont actually create ransomware or compromise networks in any way. Theyre simply lying through their teeth and hoping that recipient...

A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won

Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war...

us-ab.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3246112

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...

Trump’s Indictment Marks a Historic Reckoning

A Manhattan grand jury has issued the first-ever indictment of a former US president. Buckle up for whatever happens next...

North Korean APT43 Group Uses Cybercrime to Fund Espionage Operations

A new North Korean nation-state cyber operator has been attributed to a series of campaigns orchestrated to gather strategic intelligence that aligns with Pyongyang's geopolitical interests since 2018. Google-owned Mandiant, which is tracking the activity cluster under the moniker APT43, said the...

The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism

The GOP-fueled far right differs from similar movements around the globe, thanks to the country’s politics, electoral system, and changing demographics...

TensorFlow vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds Read in GRUBlockCellGrad

Impact Out of bounds read in GRUBlockCellGrad python func = tf.rawops.GRUBlockCellGrad para = 'x': 21.1, 156.2, 83.3, 115.4, 'hprev': array136.5, 136.6, 'wru': array26.7, 0.8, 47.9, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 'wc': array 0.4, 31.5, 0.6, 'bru': array0.1, 0.2 , dtype=float32, 'bc': 0x41414141, 'r': array0.3...

The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem

The interrogation of CEO Shou Zi Chew highlighted US lawmakers’ own failure to pass privacy legislation...

The TikTok CEO’s Face-Off With Congress Is Doomed

On Thursday, Shou Zi Chew will meet a rare united front in the US Congress against the Chinese-owned social media app that has lawmakers in a tizzy...

US Citizen Hacked by Spyware

The New York Times is reporting that a US citizens phone was hacked by the Predator spyware. A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by the Greek national intelligence service and hacked with a powerful...

KillNet and affiliate hacktivist groups targeting healthcare with DDoS attacks

In the last year, geopolitical tension has led to an uptick of reported cybercrime events fueled by hacktivist groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA published an advisory to warn organizations about these attacks and teamed with the FBI on a distributed...

LockBit ransomware attacks Essendant

The LockBit ransomware group is claiming responsibility for taking down a US-based distributor of office products called Essendant. This attack, which is said to have begun on or around March 6, created severe ramifications for the organisation, disrupting freight carrier pickups, online orders,...

US Marshals Service Data Sold on Russian Hacker Forum

By Waqas The hacker is selling 350 GB worth of data for $150,000 supervised by the forum’s guarantor. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US Marshals Service Data Sold on Russian Hacker Forum...