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Cisco hacked by exploiting vulnerable SaltStack servers

Cisco said today that some of its Cisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab Personal Edition (VIRL-PE) backend servers were hacked by exploiting critical SaltStack vulnerabilities patched last month. […]

28 May

NSA: Russian govt hackers exploiting critical Exim flaw since 2019

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) says that Russian military threat actors tracked as Sandworm Team have been exploiting a critical flaw in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software since at least August 2019. […]

28 May

New Octopus Scanner malware spreads via GitHub supply chain attack

Security researchers have found a new malware that finds and backdoors open-source NetBeans projects hosted on the GitHub web-based code hosting platform to spread to Windows, Linux, and macOS systems and deploy a Remote Administration Tool (RAT). […]

27 May

Windows 10 2004 comes with Wi-Fi 6 and WPA3 support

Microsoft announced that Windows 10, version 2004 comes with Wi-Fi 6 and WPA3 support for gigabit speeds and better performance, as well as for more secure wireless network connectivity. […]

27 May

Germany govt urges iOS users to patch critical Mail app flaws

Germany’s federal cybersecurity agency today urged iOS users to immediately install the iOS and iPadOS security updates released by Apple on May 20 to patch two actively exploited zero-click security vulnerabilities impacting the default email app. […]

27 May

$100 million in bounties paid by HackerOne to ethical hackers

Bug bounty platform HackerOne announced today that it has paid out $100,000,000 in rewards to white-hat hackers around the world as of May 26, 2020. […]

27 May

Ransomware’s big jump: ransoms grew 14 times in one year

Ransomware has become one of the most insidious threats in the past couple of years, with actors scaling up their operations to the point that the average ransom demand increased more than 10 times in one year. […]

27 May

26 million LiveJournal accounts being shared on hacker forums

A database containing over 26 million unique LiveJournal user accounts, including plain text passwords, is being shared for free on multiple hacker forums. […]

26 May

Hacking group builds new Ketrum malware from recycled backdoors

The Ke3chang hacking group historically believed to be operating out of China has developed new malware dubbed Ketrum by merging features and source code from their older Ketrican and Okrum backdoors. […]

26 May

Russian cyberspies use Gmail to control updated ComRAT malware

ESET security researchers have discovered a new version of the ComRAT backdoor controlled using the Gmail web interface and used by the state-backed Russian hacker group Turla for harvesting and stealing in attacks against governmental institutions. […]

Tag: security

Cisco hacked by exploiting vulnerable SaltStack servers

NSA: Russian govt hackers exploiting critical Exim flaw since 2019

New Octopus Scanner malware spreads via GitHub supply chain attack

Windows 10 2004 comes with Wi-Fi 6 and WPA3 support

Germany govt urges iOS users to patch critical Mail app flaws

$100 million in bounties paid by HackerOne to ethical hackers

Ransomware’s big jump: ransoms grew 14 times in one year

26 million LiveJournal accounts being shared on hacker forums

Hacking group builds new Ketrum malware from recycled backdoors

Russian cyberspies use Gmail to control updated ComRAT malware