A recent spate of phishing scams — promoted through counterfeit websites — has prompted warnings from police and local businesses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The alerts flag fake websites posing as Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority (RTA), which runs the metro and bus network in the city, as well as tourist sites such […]
Team Liquid’s wiki leak exposes 118K users Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2024 Liquipedia, an online e-sports platform run by Team Liquid, exposed a database revealing its users’ email addresses and other details. Users of the e-sports knowledge base were exposed via a publicly accessible and passwordless MongoDB database, the Cybernews research team has discovered. The […]
The Kansas state court system is close to a full recovery from an October ransomware attack that forced officials to use paper records for weeks, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Marla Luckert said Wednesday. During a State of the Judiciary speech in front of the Kansas legislature, Luckert spoke at length about the incident, telling […]
Jan 12, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical security vulnerability impacting Microsoft SharePoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-29357 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a privilege escalation flaw that could be exploited by an […]
Passkeys in Bitwarden are generated using the PRF WebAuthn extension, which derives a unique encryption key from the passkey and enhances security. The passkey feature is currently in beta and available in Chromium-based browsers.
Jan 12, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Threat Intelligence As many as five different malware families were deployed by suspected nation-state actors as part of post-exploitation activities leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances since early December 2023. “These families allow the threat actors to circumvent authentication and provide backdoor access to these devices,” […]
A fresh wave of job scams is spreading on Meta’s Facebook platform that aims to lure users with offers for remote-home positions and ultimately defraud them by stealing their personal data and banking credentials. Researchers from Qualys are warning of “ongoing attacks against multiple brands” offering remote work through Facebook ads that go so far […]
The threat actors associated with the Medusa ransomware have ramped up their activities following the debut of a dedicated data leak site on the dark web in February 2023 to publish sensitive data of victims who are unwilling to agree to their demands. “As part of their multi-extortion strategy, this group will provide victims with […]
What happened in Denmark can also happen to you, cybersecurity researchers are warning in a new report that examines attacks against the country’s energy sector last year. Waves of incidents in May that seemed like a highly-targeted effort by a nation-state actor — perhaps Russia’s Sandworm hacking group — might have been less connected than […]