Tag: security

Threat actors have been exploiting a vulnerability in the Roundcube Webmail client to target government organizations in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region, the successor of the former Soviet Union. An attack was discovered by Russian cybersecurity company Positive Technologies in September, but the researchers determined that the threat actor activity had started in […]

WordPress sites are being hacked to install malicious plugins that display fake software updates and errors to push information-stealing malware. Over the past couple of years, information-stealing malware has become a scourge to security defenders worldwide as stolen credentials are used to breach networks and steal data. Since 2023, a malicious campaign called ClearFake has […]

The Bumblebee malware loader has been spotted in new attacks recently, more than four months after Europol disrupted it during ‘Operation Endgame’ in May. Believed to be the creation of TrickBot developers, the malware emerged in 2022 as a replacement for the BazarLoader backdoor to provide ransomware threat actors access to victim networks. Bumblebee typically achieves […]

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens. Since last night, BleepingComputer has received numerous messages from people who received replies to their old Internet Archive removal requests, warning that the organization has been breached as they did […]

It’s true: Google Scholar profile of the renowned former physicist and polymath, Sir Isaac Newton bears a “verified email” note. According to Google Scholar, Isaac Newton is a “Professor of Physics, MIT” with a “Verified email at mit.edu.” The mystery of ‘verified’ scholar Isaac Newton Earlier this week, Jay Cummings, a math professor at California State University, Sacramento, and a […]

Cisco confirmed today that it took its public DevHub portal offline after a threat actor leaked “non-public” data, but it continues to state that there is no evidence that its systems were breached. “We have determined that the data in question is on a public-facing DevHub environment—a Cisco resource center that enables us to support […]

Hackers breached ESET’s exclusive partner in Israel to send phishing emails to Israeli businesses that pushed data wipers disguised as antivirus software for destructive attacks. A data wiper is malware that intentionally deletes all of the files on a computer and commonly removes or corrupts the partition table to make it harder to recover the data. […]