New evidence amidst the ongoing probe into the espionage campaign targeting SolarWinds has uncovered an unsuccessful attempt to compromise cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and access the company’s email. The hacking endeavor was reported …
Google Discloses Poorly-Patched, Now Unpatched, Windows 0-Day Bug
Google’s Project Zero team has made public details of an improperly patched zero-day security vulnerability in Windows print spooler API that could be leveraged by a bad actor to execute …
North Korean Hackers Trying to Steal COVID-19 Vaccine Research
Threat actors such as the notorious Lazarus group are continuing to tap into the ongoing COVID-19 vaccine research to steal sensitive information to speed up their countries’ vaccine-development efforts. Cybersecurity …
How to Defend Against Malware, Phishing, and Scams During COVID-19 Crisis
As if the exponential rise in phishing scams and malware attacks in the last five years wasn’t enough, the COVID-19 crisis has worsened it further. The current scenario has given …
Law Enforcement Seizes Joker’s Stash — Stolen Credit Card Marketplace
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Interpol have allegedly seized proxy servers used in connection with Blockchain-based domains belonging to Joker’s Stash, a notorious fraud bazaar known for …
New Critical Flaws in Treck TCP/IP Stack Affect Millions of IoT Devices
The US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) has warned of critical vulnerabilities in a low-level TCP/IP software library developed by Treck that, if weaponized, could allow remote attackers to run arbitrary …
Cybercriminals’ Favorite Bulletproof VPN Service Shuts Down In Global Action
Law enforcement agencies from the US, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, along with Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), announced today the coordinated takedown of Safe-Inet, a popular virtual private network (VPN) …
A Second Hacker Group May Have Also Breached SolarWinds, Microsoft Says
As the probe into the SolarWinds supply chain attack continues, new digital forensic evidence has brought to light that a separate threat actor may have been abusing the IT infrastructure provider’s Orion …
Two Critical Flaws — CVSS Score 10 — Affect Dell Wyse Thin Client Devices
A team of researchers today unveils two critical security vulnerabilities it discovered in Dell Wyse Thin clients that could have potentially allowed attackers to remotely execute malicious code and access …
Common Security Misconfigurations and Their Consequences
Everyone makes mistakes. That one sentence was drummed into me in my very first job in tech, and it has held true since then. In the cybersecurity world, misconfigurations can …