The first ever incident possibly involving the ransomware family known as Maui occurred on April 15, 2021, aimed at an unnamed Japanese housing company. The …
Hackers Behind Twilio Breach Also Targeted Cloudflare Employees
Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed at least 76 employees and their family members received text messages on their personal and work phones bearing …
The Business of Hackers-for-Hire Threat Actors
Today’s web has made hackers’ tasks remarkably easy. For the most part, hackers don’t even have to hide in the dark recesses of the web …
CISA Issues Warning on Active Exploitation of UnRAR Software for Linux Systems
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a recently disclosed security flaw in the UnRAR utility to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities …
Microsoft Issues Patches for 121 Flaws, Including Zero-Day Under Active Attack
As many as 121 new security flaws[1] were patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for the month of August, which also …
Twilio Suffers Data Breach After Employees Fall Victim to SMS Phishing Attack
Customer engagement platform Twilio on Monday disclosed that a “sophisticated” threat actor gained “unauthorized access” using an SMS-based phishing campaign aimed at its staff to …
U.S. Sanctions Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash for Alleged Use in Laundering
The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday placed sanctions against crypto mixing service Tornado Cash, citing its use by the North Korea-backed Lazarus Group in the …
The Truth About False Positives in Security
TL;DR: As weird as it might sound, seeing a few false positives reported by a security scanner is probably a good sign and certainly better …
10 Credential Stealing Python Libraries Found on PyPI Repository
In what’s yet another instance of malicious packages creeping into public code repositories, 10 modules have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) for …
Chinese Hackers Targeted Dozens of Industrial Enterprises and Public Institutions
Over a dozen military-industrial complex enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and Europe have come under a wave of targeted attacks since January 2022 to …
