Cybersecurity
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The FBI says that the North Korea-linked hacking group Lazarus is responsible for the theft of $41 million in cryptocurrency from online casino and betting platform Stake.com. The incident occurred on September 4, when the Australian-Curaçaoan online platform Stake.com announced that hackers had stolen funds from its Ethereum (ETH) and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) hot […]
Sep 12, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Data Security A new information stealer malware called MetaStealer has set its sights on Apple macOS, making the latest in a growing list of stealer families focused on the operating system after Stealer, Pureland, Atomic Stealer, and Realst. “Threat actors are proactively targeting macOS businesses by posing as fake clients […]
Sep 12, 2023THNBrowser Security / Zero Day Google on Monday rolled out out-of-band security patches to address a critical security flaw in its Chrome web browser that it said has been exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-4863, the issue has been described as a case of heap buffer overflow that resides in the WebP […]
Some of TOP universities wouldn’t pass cybersecurity exam: left websites vulnerable Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2023 CyberNews researchers discovered that many universities worldwide are leaking sensitive information and are even open to full takeover. Many universities worldwide, including some of the most prestigious, leave their webpages unpatched, leaking sensitive information, and even open to full […]
Some uninterruptible power supply (UPS) products made by Socomec are affected by several vulnerabilities that can be exploited to hijack and disrupt devices. Socomec is a France-based electrical equipment manufacturing company that specializes in low voltage energy performance. Its offering includes modular UPS devices that are used by businesses in various sectors around the world. […]
A spate of cyber-attacks against UK schools has claimed its latest victim after a Maidstone secondary school suffered a serious security breach late last week. The Church of England St Augustine Academy in the Kent commuter town serves over 750 students in the local community. Headteacher, Jason Feldwick, warned parents via Facebook that the school’s […]
A phishing attack has led to the loss of over US$691,000 following the compromise of the X (formely Twitter) account of co-founder of decentralized blockchain Ethereum and cryptocurrency Ether, Vitalik Buterin. The hack was discovered on September 9, following suspicious activity on Buterin’s X account. After compromising Buterin’s account, the hackers attempted to steal cryptocurrency […]
69% of organizations in the education sector suffered a cyberattack within the last 12 months, according to Netwrix. Phishing and account compromise threaten the education sector Phishing and user account compromise were the most common attack paths for these organizations, while phishing and malware (such as ransomware) topped the list for other verticals. What’s more, […]
Sep 11, 2023THNMalware / Social Media A new phishing attack is leveraging Facebook Messenger to propagate messages with malicious attachments from a “swarm of fake and hijacked personal accounts” with the ultimate goal of taking over the targets’ accounts. “Originating yet again from a Vietnamese-based group, this campaign uses a tiny compressed file attachment that […]