The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new swarm of attacks targeting Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula with the …
New Exploit Bypasses Existing Spectre-v2 Mitigations in Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs
Researchers have disclosed a new technique that could be used to circumvent existing hardware mitigations in modern processors from Intel, AMD, and Arm and stage …
Ukrainian Hacker Linked to REvil Ransomware Attacks Extradited to United States
Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a Ukrainian national, linked to the Russia-based REvil ransomware group[1] has been extradited to the U.S. to face charges for his role in …
Emotet Botnet’s Latest Resurgence Spreads to Over 100,000 Computers
The insidious Emotet botnet, which staged a return in November 2021 after a 10-month-long hiatus, is once again exhibiting signs of steady growth, amassing a …
Hackers Abuse Mitel Devices to Amplify DDoS Attacks by 4 Billion Times
Threat actors have been observed abusing a high-impact reflection/amplification method to stage sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for up to 14 hours with a record-breaking …
Critical Bugs Could Let Attackers Remotely Hack, Damage APC Smart UPS Devices
Three high-impact security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in APC Smart-UPS devices[1] that could be abused by remote adversaries as a physical weapon to access and …
Chinese APT41 Hackers Broke into at Least 6 U.S. State Governments: Mandiant
APT41, the state-sponsored threat actor affiliated with China, breached at least six U.S. state government networks between May 2021 and February 2022 by retooling its …
Critical RCE Bugs Found in Pascom Cloud Phone System Used by Businesses
Researchers have disclosed three security vulnerabilities affecting Pascom Cloud Phone System (CPS[1]) that could be combined to achieve a full pre-authenticated remote code execution of …
Critical Security Patches Issued by Microsoft, Adobe and Other Major Software Firms
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update[1] for the month of March has been made officially available with 71 fixes spanning across its software products such as Windows, …
New 16 High-Severity UEFI Firmware Flaws Discovered in Millions of HP Devices
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed[1] 16 new high-severity vulnerabilities in various implementations of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware impacting multiple HP enterprise devices. The …
