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Mar 20, 2024The Hacker NewsArtificial intelligence / Webinar
Did you know that 79% of organizations are already leveraging Generative AI technologies? Much like the internet defined the 90s and the cloud revolutionized the 2010s, we are now in the era of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI.…
Mar 20, 2024NewsroomDoS Attack / Network Security
A novel denial-of-service (DoS) attack vector has been found to target application-layer protocols based on User Datagram Protocol (UDP), putting hundreds of thousands of hosts likely at risk.
Called Loop DoS attacks, the approach pairs “servers of these protocols in such a way that they communicate with each other indefinitely,” researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz-Center for Information Security said.…
Mar 11, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Vulnerability
The threat actors behind the BianLian ransomware have been observed exploiting security flaws in JetBrains TeamCity software to conduct their extortion-only attacks.
According to a new report from GuidePoint Security, which responded to a recent intrusion, the incident “began with the exploitation of a TeamCity server which resulted in the deployment of a PowerShell implementation of BianLian’s Go backdoor.”
BianLian emerged in June 2022, and has since pivoted exclusively to exfiltration-based extortion following the release of a decryptor in January 2023.…
Mar 11, 2024The Hacker NewsCybersecurity / Browser Security
As the shift of IT infrastructure to cloud-based solutions celebrates its 10-year anniversary, it becomes clear that traditional on-premises approaches to data security are becoming obsolete. Rather than protecting the endpoint, DLP solutions need to refocus their efforts to where corporate data resides – in the browser.…
Users in Brazil are the target of a new banking trojan known as CHAVECLOAK that’s propagated via phishing emails bearing PDF attachments.
“This intricate attack involves the PDF downloading a ZIP file and subsequently utilizing DLL side-loading techniques to execute the final malware,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said.…
Mar 12, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Threat
Russia has detained a South Korean national for the first time on cyber espionage charges and transferred from Vladivostok to Moscow for further investigation.
The development was first reported by Russian news agency TASS.
“During the investigation of an espionage case, a South Korean citizen Baek Won-soon was identified and detained in Vladivostok, and put into custody under a court order,” an unnamed source was quoted as saying.…
Mar 12, 2024NewsroomWordPress / Website Security
A new malware campaign is leveraging a high-severity security flaw in the Popup Builder plugin for WordPress to inject malicious JavaScript code.
According to Sucuri, the campaign has infected more than 3,900 sites over the past three weeks.…
Mar 12, 2024The Hacker NewsCTEM / Vulnerability Management
In a world of ever-expanding jargon, adding another FLA (Four-Letter Acronym) to your glossary might seem like the last thing you’d want to do. But if you are looking for ways to continuously reduce risk across your environment while making significant and consistent improvements to security posture, in our opinion, you probably want to consider establishing a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) program.…
Mar 12, 2024The Hacker NewsCryptocurrency / Cybercrime
Threat hunters have discovered a set of seven packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to steal BIP39 mnemonic phrases used for recovering private keys of a cryptocurrency wallet.
The software supply chain attack campaign has been codenamed BIPClip by ReversingLabs.…
Feb 11, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cybercrime
The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) on Friday announced the seizure of online infrastructure that was used to sell a remote access trojan (RAT) called Warzone RAT.
The domains – www.warzone[.]ws and three others – were “used to sell computer malware used by cybercriminals to secretly access and steal data from victims’ computers,” the DoJ said.…
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