Earlier this year, a Microsoft developer realized that someone had inserted a backdoor into the code of open source utility XZ Utils, which is used in virtually all Linux operating systems. The operation had started two years earlier when that someone, a person nicknamed JiaT75, started contributing to the XZ Utils repository on GitHub. A […]
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The San Joaquin County Superior Court said nearly all of its digital services have been knocked offline due to a cyberattack that began earlier this week.
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Georgia’s secretary of state, a Republican, had already refuted the clip’s claims the previous day.
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These attacks are highly effective, have caused huge data breaches and resulted in huge ransoms paid to make the hackers go away.
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As organizations centralize IT security, the risk of espionage is silently becoming a more profitable threat.
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We are becoming accustomed to attackers gaining the upper hand due to basic security oversights. We already know that phishing tactics as unsophisticated as they look became one of the most effective one. Now, in the web, we have different basic security oversights. But the most prevalent is exposing private files, mainly ones that contain various credentials or API keys.
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EMERALDWHALE operation compromises over 15,000 cloud credentials, exploiting exposed Git and Laravel files. Attackers use compromised S3 buckets…
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A stealthy network backdoor found on hacked Sophos XG firewall devices is programmed to work on a broader range of Linux-based devices.
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U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity agencies have published a new advisory attributing an Iranian cyber group to targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics and compromising a French commercial dynamic display provider to show messages denouncing Israel’s participation in the sporting event.
The activity has been pinned on an entity that’s known as Emennet Pasargad, which the agencies said has been operating
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