Tom works for a reputable financial institution. He has a long, complex password that would be near-impossible to guess. He’s memorized it by heart, so he started using it for his social media accounts and on his personal devices too. Unbeknownst to Tom, one of these sites has had its password database compromised by hackers and put it up for sale on the dark web. Now threat actors are working
The Hacker News – Read More
Threat actors are increasingly abusing legitimate and commercially available packer software such as BoxedApp to evade detection and distribute malware such as remote access trojans and information stealers.
“The majority of the attributed malicious samples targeted financial institutions and government industries,” Check Point security researcher Jiri Vinopal said in an analysis.
The volume of
The Hacker News – Read More
1Password’s top-tier security and sleek user interface make it a solid password manager to try this year. Read our hands-on 1Password review to learn more.
Security | TechRepublic – Read More
ZeroMark wants to build a system that will let soldiers easily shoot a drone out of the sky with the weapons they’re already carrying—and venture capital firm a16z is betting the startup can pull it off.
Security Latest – Read More
Google has announced plans to store Maps Timeline data locally on users’ devices instead of their Google account effective December 1, 2024.
The changes were originally announced by the tech giant in December 2023, alongside changes to the auto-delete control when enabling Location History by setting it to three months by default, down from the previous limit of 18 months.
Google Maps Timeline,
The Hacker News – Read More
The FBI has obtained more than 7,000 LockBit ransomware decryption keys and is urging victims to get in touch with its IC3.
The post FBI Says It Has 7,000 LockBit Ransomware Decryption Keys appeared first on SecurityWeek.
SecurityWeek – Read More
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Python package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that’s designed to deliver an information stealer called Lumma (aka LummaC2).
The package in question is crytic-compilers, a typosquatted version of a legitimate library named crytic-compile. The rogue package was downloaded 441 times before it was taken down by PyPI
The Hacker News – Read More
Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.
Security Latest – Read More
CVE-2020-1472 is a privilege escalation flaw that allows an attacker to take over an organization’s domain controllers.
darkreading – Read More
Hijacking malware gets spread through TikTok’s direct messaging and doesn’t require the victim to click links or download anything.
darkreading – Read More