The website used by the ransomware group believed to be responsible for the breach of one of the United States’s largest health care payment processors went down Friday amid reports that the incident has put major financial pressure on medical providers and made it difficult for consumers to get the medicine they need. It’s not […]
U.S. Judge ordered NSO Group to hand over the Pegasus spyware code to WhatsApp Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2024 A U.S. Court ordered surveillance firm NSO Group to hand over the source code for its Pegasus spyware and other products to Meta. Meta won the litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group, a U.S. Judge ordered […]
Mar 02, 2024NewsroomSpyware / Privacy A U.S. judge has ordered NSO Group to hand over its source code for Pegasus and other products to Meta as part of the social media giant’s ongoing litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor. The decision, which marks a major legal victory for Meta, which filed the lawsuit in October […]
Epic Games found no evidence of a cyberattack or data theft after the Mogilevich group claimed to have breached their servers. The group offered to sell stolen data for $15,000 but only shared samples with those who proved they had the funds.
Feb 29, 2024NewsroomRootkit / Threat Intelligence The notorious Lazarus Group actors exploited a recently patched privilege escalation flaw in the Windows Kernel as a zero-day to obtain kernel-level access and disable security software on compromised hosts. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-21338 (CVSS score: 7.8), which can permit an attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. It […]
Feb 29, 2024NewsroomMalware / Endpoint Security The notorious North Korean state-backed hacking group Lazarus uploaded four packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository with the goal of infecting developer systems with malware. The packages, now taken down, are pycryptoenv, pycryptoconf, quasarlib, and swapmempool. They have been collectively downloaded 3,269 times, with pycryptoconf accounting for […]
The Akira ransomware group has set its sights on yet another target: the municipality of Bjuv in Skåne County, South Sweden. The notorious hacker group, known for its brazen cyberattacks against Swedish entities, has issued a warning on the dark web, threatening to leak nearly 200GB of stolen data from Bjuv Municipality’s systems. The ransomware […]
The Akira ransomware group has allegedly claimed the Quik Pawn Shop cyberattack on the dark web, adding yet another victim to their list. The cyberattack on Quik Pawn Shop, which occurred on February 22, 2024, has left Quik Pawn Shop grappling with the aftermath of a data breach. Established in 1978, Quik Pawn Shops has […]
U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group (UHG) said Thursday in a filing with government regulators that its subsidiary Change Healthcare was compromised, likely by government-backed hackers. In a filing Thursday, UHG blamed the ongoing cybersecurity incident affecting Change Healthcare on suspected nation-state hackers but said it had no timeframe for when its systems would be […]