Since last summer, hotel owners and employees have grappled with a surge in malicious e-mails disguised as ordinary correspondence from previous or potential guests. These e-mails, often appearing as typical …
New OPIX Ransomware Encrypting Files With Random Character String
A recently identified ransomware variant dubbed OPIX encrypts user files using a random character string and adds the “.OPIX” extension to them. The ransomware will drop a notice on victims’ …
Empire Market Founders Charged for Operating $430 Million Dark Web Marketplace
Two men have been charged in federal court in Chicago with operating “Empire Market,” a dark web marketplace that enabled users to anonymously buy and sell more than $430 million …
Chinese Threat Actors Hacking F5 Load Balancers for Last Two Years
Hackers often focus on F5 Load Balancers for several reasons, as these are many enterprise networks’ vital parts that balance loads and manage traffic. If these load balancers are put …
Beware Of Malicious Search Results Leading To SolarMarker Malware Installation
The SOC analysts identified a drive-by download attack leveraging SolarMarker malware, where the attack targeted users searching for team-building activities on Bing. Attackers tricked the victim into downloading a seemingly …
NHS Ransomware Attack Leads to Cancellations of 800+ Operations
A ransomware cyber attack targeted Synnovis, a pathology laboratory that processes blood tests for several NHS organizations, primarily in southeast London. The attack has significantly reduced the number of tests …
Total Fitness Exposes 500k Images of Members & Staff
Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password-protected database containing 474,651 images belonging to Total Fitness, a health club chain with 15 locations across North England and Wales. The database, which …
Arid Viper Weaponizing Android Apps To Exfiltrate Login Details
Arid Viper APT Group has targeted Android users in the Middle East with five campaigns since 2022. These campaigns used trojanized apps impersonating legitimate ones, such as messaging apps and …
Zadig & Voltaire Breach: 587K Unique Email Address Exposed
The renowned French fashion brand Zadig & Voltaire has suffered a data breach, exposing 587,000 unique email addresses. The popular data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned confirmed the …
Windows Wi-Fi Code Execution Flaw Let Attacker Hijack Your Devices
Microsoft patched several vulnerabilities as part of June 2024’s Patch Tuesday, one of which was associated with remote code execution in Wi-Fi Driver. This vulnerability was assigned with CVE-2024-30078, and …