22-Year-Old Charged With Hacking Water System and Endangering Lives

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A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Kansas has been indicted on charges that he unauthorizedly accessed a public water facility’s computer system, jeopardizing the residents’ safety and health in the local community. Wyatt A. Travnichek, 22, of Ellsworth …

Hackers Set Up a Fake Cybersecurity Firm to Target Security Experts

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A North Korean government-backed campaign targeting cybersecurity researchers with malware has re-emerged with new tactics in their arsenal as part of a fresh social engineering attack. In an update shared on Wednesday, Google’s Threat Analysis Group said the attackers behind …

Decided to move on from your NGAV/EDR? A Guide for Small Security Teams to What’s Next

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You’re fully aware of the need to stop threats at the front door and then hunt any that got through that first gate, so your company installed an EPP/ EDR solution. But like most companies, you’ve already come across its …

Hackers are implanting multiple backdoors at industrial targets in Japan

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Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of a sophisticated campaign that deploys malicious backdoors for the purpose of exfiltrating information from a number of industry sectors located in Japan. Dubbed “A41APT” by Kaspersky researchers, the findings delve into a new …

MobiKwik Suffers Major Breach — KYC Data of 3.5 Million Users Exposed

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Popular Indian mobile payments service MobiKwik on Monday came under fire after 8.2 terabytes (TB) of data belonging to millions of its users began circulating on the dark web in the aftermath of a major data breach that came to …

New Bugs Could Let Hackers Bypass Spectre Attack Mitigations On Linux Systems

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Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Linux-based operating systems that, if successfully exploited, could let attackers circumvent mitigations for speculative attacks such as Spectre and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Discovered by Piotr Krysiuk of Symantec’s Threat Hunter team, the …

Flaws in Ovarro TBox RTUs Could Open Industrial Systems to Remote Attacks

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As many as five vulnerabilities have been uncovered in Ovarro’s TBox remote terminal units (RTUs) that, if left unpatched, could open the door for escalating attacks against critical infrastructures, like remote code execution and denial-of-service. “Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities …

How to Effectively Prevent Email Spoofing Attacks in 2021?

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Email spoofing is a growing problem for an organization’s security. Spoofing occurs when a hacker sends an email that appears to have been sent from a trusted source/domain. Email spoofing is not a new concept. Defined as “the forgery of …

PHP’s Git Server Hacked to Insert Secret Backdoor to Its Source code

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In yet another instance of a software supply chain attack, unidentified actors hacked the official Git server of the PHP programming language and pushed unauthorized updates to insert a secret backdoor into its source code. The two malicious commits were pushed …

Watch Out! That Android System Update May Contain A Powerful Spyware

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Researchers have discovered a new information-stealing trojan, which targets Android devices with an onslaught of data-exfiltration capabilities — from collecting browser searches to recording audio and phone calls. While malware on Android has previously taken the guise of copycat apps, …