Cybersecurity

Hackers Exploiting WP-Automatic Plugin Bug to Create Admin Accounts on WordPress Sites

Apr 26, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cyber Attack Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw in the WP‑Automatic plugin for WordPress that could allow site takeovers. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2024-27956, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10. It impacts all versions of the plugin prior to […]

Cybersecurity

Beware: GitHub’s Fake Popularity Scam Tricking Developers into Downloading Malware

Apr 10, 2024NewsroomSoftware Security / Supply Chain Attack Threat actors are now taking advantage of GitHub’s search functionality to trick unsuspecting users looking for popular repositories into downloading spurious counterparts that serve malware. The latest assault on the open-source software supply chain involves concealing malicious code within Microsoft Visual Code project files that’s designed to […]

Cybersecurity

North Korean Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Bug to Target Cybersecurity Researchers

Sep 08, 2023THNZero Day / Cyber Attack Threat actors associated with North Korea are continuing to target the cybersecurity community using a zero-day bug in unspecified software over the past several weeks to infiltrate their machines. The findings come from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which found the adversary setting up fake accounts on social […]