General Security News
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34 Cybercriminals Arrested in Spain for Multi-Million Dollar Online Scams
Spanish law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of 34 members of a criminal group that carried out various online scams, netting the...
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1Password Detects Suspicious Activity Following Okta Support Breach
Popular password management solution 1Password said it detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance on September 29 following the support...
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DoNot Team's New Firebird Backdoor Hits Pakistan and Afghanistan
The threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to the use of a novel .NET-based backdoor called Firebird targeting a handful of victims in...
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Who's Experimenting with AI Tools in Your Organization?
With the record-setting growth of consumer-focused AI productivity tools like ChatGPT, artificial intelligence—formerly the realm of data science...
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Europol Dismantles Ragnar Locker Ransomware Infrastructure, Nabs Key Developer
Europol on Friday announced the takedown of the infrastructure associated with Ragnar Locker ransomware, alongside the arrest of a "key target" in...
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Okta's Support System Breach Exposes Customer Data to Unidentified Threat Actors
Identity services provider Okta on Friday disclosed a new security incident that allowed unidentified threat actors to leverage stolen credentials...
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Cisco Zero-Day Exploited to Implant Malicious Lua Backdoor on Thousands of Devices
Cisco has warned of a new zero-day flaw in IOS XE that has been actively exploited by an unknown threat actor to deploy a malicious Lua-based...
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Sophisticated MATA Framework Strikes Eastern European Oil and Gas Companies
An updated version of a sophisticated backdoor framework called MATA has been used in attacks aimed at over a dozen Eastern European companies in...
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Vulnerability Scanning: How Often Should I Scan?
The time between a vulnerability being discovered and hackers exploiting it is narrower than ever – just 12 days. So it makes sense that...
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Google Play Protect Introduces Real-Time Code-Level Scanning for Android Malware
Google has announced an update to its Play Protect with support for real-time scanning at the code level to tackle novel malicious apps prior to...
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Hackers Using Secure USB Drives to Attack Government Entities
An ongoing attack on government agencies in the APAC region has been claimed to have compromised a secure USB device with hardware encryption....
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Multiple SonicWall Vulnerabilities Resulted in a Firewall Crash
Multiple vulnerabilities were detected in the SonicOS Management web interface and the SSLVPN portal, resulting in a firewall crash. In a...