Category: Tech Blog

A weakness in Apple’s Safari web browser allows threat actors to leverage the fullscreen browser-in-the-middle (BitM) technique to steal account credentials from unsuspecting users. By abusing the Fullscreen API, which instructs any content on a webpage to enter the browser’s fullscreen viewing mode, hackers can exploit the shortcoming to make guardrails less visible on Chromium-based browsers and […]

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Funnull Technology, a Philippines-based company that supports hundreds of thousands of malicious websites behind cyber scams linked to over $200 million in losses for Americans. Funnull facilitated virtual currency investment scams (also known as romance baiting and pig butchering) by buying IP addresses in bulk from various cloud service […]

Data broker giant LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a Georgia-based American data analytics company, has revealed that attackers stole the personal information of over 364,000 individuals in a December breach. As disclosed in data breach notifications sent to affected people starting May 24th, LexisNexis was informed on April 1st that some of its data had been stolen […]

The Chinese APT41 hacking group uses a new malware named ‘ToughProgress’ that exploits Google Calendar for command-and-control (C2) operations, hiding malicious activity behind a trusted cloud service. The campaign was discovered by Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, which identified and dismantled attacker-controlled Google Calendar and Workspace infrastructure and introduced targeted measures to prevent such abuse in […]

A newly discovered Go-based Linux botnet malware named PumaBot is brute-forcing SSH credentials on embedded IoT devices to deploy malicious payloads. The targeted nature of PumaBot is also evident by the fact it targets specific IPs based on lists pulled from a command-and-control (C2) server instead of broader scanning of the internet. Targeting surveillance cams Darktrace […]

The DragonForce ransomware operation successfully breached a managed service provider and used its SimpleHelp remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform to steal data and deploy encryptors on downstream customers’ systems. Sophos was brought in to investigate the attack and believe the threat actors exploited a chain of older SimpleHelp vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-57727, CVE-2024-57728, and CVE-2024-57726 to […]

An Iranian national has pleaded guilty to participating in the Robbinhood ransomware operation, which was used to breach the networks, steal data, and encrypt devices of U.S. cities and organizations in an attempt to extort millions of dollars over a five-year span. According to a U.S. Department of Justice and an unsealed indictment, 39-year-old man named Sina […]

More than 40,000 new vulnerabilities (CVEs) were published in 2024 alone. More than 60% of those were labeled “high” or “critical.” Sounds scary, sure, but how many of them actually put your environment at risk? Not nearly as many as you might think. Scoring systems like CVSS flag severity based on technical factors. But they […]