Researchers Warn of Linux Cryptojacking Attackers Operating from Romania

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

A threat group likely based in Romania and active since at least 2020 has been behind an active cryptojacking campaign targeting Linux-based machines with a previously undocumented SSH brute-forcer written …

Turns Out That Low-Risk iOS Wi-Fi Naming Bug Can Hack iPhones Remotely

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

The Wi-Fi network name bug that was found to completely disable an iPhone’s networking functionality had remote code execution capabilities and was silently fixed by Apple earlier this year, according …

Five Critical Password Security Rules Your Employees Are Ignoring

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

According to Keeper Security’s Workplace Password Malpractice Report, many remote workers aren’t following best practices for password security. Password security was a problem even before the advent of widespread remote …

Researcher Uncover Yet Another Unpatched Windows Printer Spooler Vulnerability

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Merely days after Microsoft sounded the alarm on an unpatched security vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler service, yet another zero-day flaw in the same component has come to light, making it …

New Leak Reveals Abuse of Pegasus Spyware to Target Journalists Globally

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

A sweeping probe into a data leak of more than 50,000 phone numbers has revealed an extensive misuse of Israeli company NSO Group’s Pegasus “military-grade spyware” to facilitate human rights …

China’s New Law Requires Researchers to Report All Zero-Day Bugs to Government

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has issued new stricter vulnerability disclosures regulations that mandate security researchers uncovering critical flaws in computer systems to mandatorily disclose them first-hand to the …

Instagram Launches ‘Security Checkup’ to Help Users Recover Hacked Accounts

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Instagram earlier this week introduced a new “Security Checkup” feature that aims to keep accounts safe and help users—whose accounts may have been compromised—to recover them. In order to gain …

CloudFlare CDNJS Bug Could Have Led to Widespread Supply-Chain Attacks

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare last month fixed a critical vulnerability in its CDNJS library that’s used by 12.7% of all websites on the internet. CDNJS is a free and …

The Definitive RFP Templates for EDR/EPP and APT Protection

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Advanced Persistent Threats groups were once considered a problem that concerns Fortune 100 companies only. However, the threat landscape of the recent years tells otherwise—in fact, every organization, regardless of …