Cybersecurity

Cryptojackers Use IAM Credential Within Five Minutes of Discovery | Cyware Hacker News

Researchers have identified an ongoing cryptojacking campaign, EleKtra-Leak, that targets exposed Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials on GitHub repositories. The campaign has been active since December 2020, with as many as 474 unique Amazon EC2 instances found being used to mine Monero cryptocurrency between August 30 and October 6. Moreover, threat actors use these […]

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Cyber attacks cause revenue losses in 42% of small businesses – Help Net Security

85% of small business leaders say they are ready to respond to a cyber incident despite a record-high 73% reporting an attack in 2023, according to Identity Theft Resource Center. Employee and consumer data continue to be the most impacted categories of information affected by a data breach. The number of organizations reporting first-time attacks […]

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Iranian Cyber Espionage Group Targets Financial and Government Sectors in Middle East

A threat actor affiliated with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been observed waging a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign targeting financial, government, military, and telecommunications sectors in the Middle East for at least a year. Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point, which discovered the campaign alongside Sygnia, is tracking the actor under the name […]

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Alert: F5 Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting BIG-IP Vulnerability

Nov 01, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Cyber Attack F5 is warning of active abuse of a critical security flaw in BIG-IP less than a week after its public disclosure, resulting in the execution of arbitrary system commands as part of an exploit chain. Tracked as CVE-2023-46747 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker with network […]