Cybersecurity
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Hacktivists have claimed to hit Israeli websites through DDoS and defacement attacks following the outbreak of conflict between Israel and Hamas. Cybersecurity experts now warn of signs of more impactful attacks being attempted. Researchers from Radware found that Israel endured 143 DDoS attacks between October 2 and October 10, making it the most targeted nation […]
Breach Notification , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Electronic Filing and Payments Offline as Courts Revert to Paper Records and Faxes Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • October 16, 2023 The Kansas Supreme Court Judicial Center in Topeka, Kansas (Image: Shutterstock) The Kansas Supreme Court said it is probing a “security incident” […]
Recently, the cybersecurity landscape has been confronted with a daunting new reality – the rise of malicious Generative AI, like FraudGPT and WormGPT. These rogue creations, lurking in the dark corners of the internet, pose a distinctive threat to the world of digital security. In this article, we will look at the nature of Generative […]
Oct 17, 2023NewsroomData Security / Network Security A severity flaw impacting industrial cellular routers from Milesight may have been actively exploited in real-world attacks, new findings from VulnCheck reveal. Tracked as CVE-2023-43261 (CVSS score: 7.5), the vulnerability has been described as a case of information disclosure that affects UR5X, UR32L, UR32, UR35, and UR41 routers […]
Researchers came across a new, lightweight variant of the RomCom backdoor that has been used in a cyberespionage campaign targeting the participants of the Women Political Leaders (WPL) Summit held in Brussels from June 7–8. The new iteration (tracked as RomCom 4.0) was first observed in early August and has been attributed to Void Rabisu, […]
Tim Neal-Hopes, an Air Vice-Marshal in the Royal Air Force, was announced as the new commander of the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Force (NCF) on Monday. Neal-Hopes joins the unit from Strategic Command, where he served as the director for cyber, intelligence and information integration. He is the NCF’s second-ever commander, and the first member […]
The vendor has released a patch (version 1.3.79) to fix the flaw (CVE-2023-5360), and users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible, but a website cleanup may be necessary to remove any infections or malicious files.
Oct 17, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has revealed that threat actors “interfered” with at least 11 telecommunication service providers in the country between May and September 2023. The agency is tracking the activity under the name UAC-0165, stating the intrusions led to service interruptions for customers. The […]
Oct 17, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Network Security Cisco has warned of a critical, unpatched security flaw impacting IOS XE software that’s under active exploitation in the wild. Rooted in the web UI feature, the zero-day vulnerability is assigned as CVE-2023-20198 and has been assigned the maximum severity rating of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It’s […]