Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via …
Cybercrime Group Asking Insiders for Help in Planting Ransomware
A Nigerian threat actor has been observed attempting to recruit employees by offering them to pay $1 million in bitcoins to deploy Black Kingdom ransomware on companies’ networks as part …
Mozi IoT Botnet Now Also Targets Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE Network Gateways
Mozi, a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known to target IoT devices, has gained new capabilities that allow it to achieve persistence on network gateways manufactured by Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE, according …
Critical Flaw Found in Older Cisco Small Business Routers Won’t Be Fixed
A critical vulnerability in Cisco Small Business Routers will not be patched by the networking equipment giant, since the devices reached end-of-life in 2019. Tracked as CVE-2021-34730 (CVSS score: 9.8), …
Researchers Find New Evidence Linking Diavol Ransomware to TrickBot Gang
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about an early development version of a nascent ransomware strain called Diavol that has been linked to threat actors behind the infamous TrickBot syndicate. The …
Critical ThroughTek SDK Bug Could Let Attackers Spy On Millions of IoT Devices
A security vulnerability has been found affecting several versions of ThroughTek Kalay P2P Software Development Kit (SDK), which could be abused by a remote attacker to take control of an …
Iranian Hackers Target Several Israeli Organizations With Supply-Chain Attacks
IT and communication companies in Israel were at the center of a supply chain attack campaign spearheaded by an Iranian threat actor that involved impersonating the firms and their HR …
BadAlloc Flaw Affects BlackBerry QNX Used in Millions of Cars and Medical Devices
A major vulnerability affecting older versions of BlackBerry’s QNX Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) could allow malicious actors to cripple and gain control of a variety of products, including cars, medical, …
Does a VPN Protect You from Hackers?
A virtual private network (VPN) is the perfect solution for a lot of issues you might experience online- accessing blocked sites, hiding your browsing activity, getting rid of internet throttling, …
NK Hackers Deploy Browser Exploits on South Korean Sites to Spread Malware
A North Korean threat actor has been discovered taking advantage of two exploits in Internet Explorer to infect victims with a custom implant as part of a strategic web compromise …