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Phishing Attacks Skyrocket with Microsoft and Facebook as Most Abused Brands
Instances of phishing attacks leveraging the Microsoft brand increased 266 percent in Q1 compared to the year prior. The bloom is back on phishing attacks with criminals doubling down on fake ...
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20K WordPress Sites Exposed by Insecure Plugin REST-API
The WordPress WP HTML Mail plugin for personalized emails is vulnerable to code injection and phishing due to XSS. More than 20,000 WordPress sites are vulnerable to malicious code injection ...
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Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise
Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group. After a recent dip, ransomware attacks are back on the rise. According to data ...
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DarkSide Getting Taken to ‘Hackers’ Court’ For Not Paying Affiliates
A shadow court system for hackers shows how professional ransomware gangs have become. Cybercriminals who have worked as affiliates with ransomware group DarkSide, responsible for the Colonial ...
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Grief Ransomware Targets NRA
Grief, a ransomware group with ties to Russia-based Evil Corp, claims to have stolen data from the gun-rights group and has posted files on its dark web site. A ransomware group tied to Russia ...
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Malicious Npm Packages Tapped Again to Target Discord Users
Recent LofyLife campaign steals tokens and infects client files to monitor various user actions, such as log-ins, password changes and payment methods. Threat actors once again are using the node ...
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Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras
Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed. New research indicates that over 80,000 Hikvision surveillance cameras ...
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SEGA’s Sloppy Security Confession: Exposed AWS S3 Bucket Offers Up Steam API Access & More
SEGA’s disclosure underscores a common, potentially catastrophic, flub — misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 buckets. Gaming giant SEGA Europe recently discovered that its sensitive ...
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Hack Allows Drone Takeover Via ‘ExpressLRS’ Protocol
A radio control system for drones is vulnerable to remote takeover, thanks to a weakness in the mechanism that binds transmitter and receiver. The popular protocol for radio controlled (RC ...
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Apple Fixes 2 Zero-Day Security Bugs, One Exploited in the Wild
iOS 15.3 & iPadOS 15.3 fix the Safari browser flaw that could have spilled users’ browsing data, plus a zero day IOMobileFrameBuffer bug exploited in the wild. Apple on Wednesday released 13 ...
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Widespread, Easily Exploitable Windows RDP Bug Opens Users to Data Theft
Most Windows versions are at risk of remote, unprivileged attackers abusing RDP from the inside to hijack smart cards and get unauthorized file system access. Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) pipes ...
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REvil Ransomware Ground Down JBS: Sources
Responsible nations don’t harbor cybercrooks, the Biden administration admonished Russia, home to the gang that reportedly froze the global food distributor’s systems. The cyberattack that ...