Russia has launched sympathetic media outlets, courted anti-French public support, and created fake civil society organizations in turbulent African states, according to an investigation by Microsoft. The computing giant’s report noted that coups in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Gabon have brought instability to the continent, and Russia is capitalizing upon this instability with a […]
Sep 07, 2023THNServer Security / Vulnerability Patches have been released to address two new security vulnerabilities in Apache Superset that could be exploited by an attacker to gain remote code execution on affected systems. The update (version 2.1.1) plugs CVE-2023-39265 and CVE-2023-37941, which make it possible to conduct nefarious actions once a bad actor is […]
At this time, Coffee Meets Bagel has not confirmed if the attack was ransomware that encrypted data, effectively making it unusable, or if the threat actors purposely deleted data to bring down the service.
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has announced its new chief technology officer (CTO) will be Ollie Whitehouse. Spun out of spy agency GCHQ in 2016, the NCSC plays a crucial role in advising businesses and consumers about how to avoid emerging threats. It also serves as the National Technical Authority for cybersecurity and works […]
Now Berlin-based, he delivers some serious BITE Omon Breaker aka Maksym Nazarov is a DJ and musician who grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine and was originally from Dnipro. He drops his first ever full EP, ‘Compromat’ on the BITE label on September 29, traversing from cyberpunk dancefloor techno to trance-like work outs and wave inflected anthems across […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management , Healthcare FTC, HHS Warn Hospitals, Telehealth Firms of Privacy Violations With Tracker Use Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • September 5, 2023 Image: FTC, HHS OCR The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services have publicly named 130 hospitals and […]
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Sep 07, 2023THNBotnet / Cyber Threat A Mirai botnet variant called Pandora has been observed infiltrating inexpensive Android-based TV sets and TV boxes and using them as part of a botnet to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Doctor Web said the compromises are likely to occur either during malicious firmware updates or when applications for […]
Sep 07, 2023THNCyber Attack / Email Hacking Microsoft on Wednesday revealed that a China-based threat actor known as Storm-0558 acquired the inactive consumer signing key to forge tokens and access Outlook by compromising an engineer’s corporate account. This enabled the adversary to access a debugging environment that contained information pertaining to a crash of the […]