The U.S. Secret Service executed a seizure warrant to recover $34,000 stolen through a fake Norton antivirus renewal email scam. The scam tricked victims into granting remote access to their computers, and then transferring money from their accounts.
Jan 16, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Network Security Over 178,000 SonicWall firewalls exposed over the internet are exploitable to at least one of the two security flaws that could be potentially exploited to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition and remote code execution (RCE). “The two issues are fundamentally the same but exploitable at different HTTP URI paths […]
Jan 16, 2024The Hacker NewsData Security / Privacy Compliance Explore how an advanced exposure management solution saved a major retail industry client from ending up on the naughty step due to a misconfiguration in its cookie management policy. This wasn’t anything malicious, but with modern web environments being so complex, mistakes can happen, and non-compliance […]
Attackers can exploit these vulnerabilities to force affected firewalls into maintenance mode, impacting their standard functionality and VPN access to corporate networks.
Tsurugi Linux is a heavily customized open-source distribution focused on supporting DFIR investigations. The project focuses mainly on live forensics analysis, post-mortem analysis, and digital evidence acquisition. Users can also perform malware analysis, OSINT and computer vision activities. “We’ve crafted a user-friendly experience, organizing the main menu in a logical forensic analysis sequence. Our menu […]
LockBit ransomware group has marked its presence on the dark web portal by adding two new victims to its roster – Maisons de l’Avenir in France and Shinwa Co in Japan. The threat actors have issued a stern deadline for their demands, set for February 4, 2024. While the ransomware group remains tight-lipped about the motive […]
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Security researchers have discovered a significant increase in global botnet activity between December 2023 and the first week of January 2024, with spikes observed exceeding one million devices. Writing in an advisory published on Friday, Netscout ASERT explained that, on a typical day, approximately 10,000 such devices engaged in malicious reconnaissance scanning last year, with […]
Officials at the State Department are working through roles and hiring challenges at the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The Thursday report, which looks at cyber diplomacy efforts in the United States, reported that officials at the new bureau responsible for pushing U.S. cyber policy interests abroad […]