Enlarge Getty Images A prolific espionage hacking group with ties to China spent over two years looting the corporate network of NXP, the Netherlands-based chipmaker whose silicon powers security-sensitive components found in smartphones, smartcards, and electric vehicles, a news outlet has reported. The intrusion, by a group tracked under names including “Chimera” and “G0114,” lasted […]
Vikas Singla, the former COO of a cybersecurity company, pleaded guilty to hacking two hospitals in an attempt to boost his company’s business. Singla disrupted phone and printer services at the hospitals and stole personal information from patients.
Nov 16, 2023NewsroomAdvanced Persistent Threat / Zero-Day A hacking group that leveraged a recently disclosed security flaw in the WinRAR software as a zero-day has now been categorized as an entirely new advanced persistent threat (APT). Cybersecurity company NSFOCUS has described DarkCasino as an “economically motivated” actor that first came to light in 2021. “DarkCasino […]
The Russian-linked Turla hacking group has been observed using a new version of Kazuar backdoor to expand its attacks. The new findings come from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which has been tracking the adversary under the name Pensive Ursa. According to researchers, the malware has been spotted in the wild after years of hiatus […]
Nov 01, 2023NewsroomCyber Threat / Malware The Russia-linked hacking crew known as Turla has been observed using an updated version of a known second-stage backdoor referred to as Kazuar. The new findings come from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which is tracking the adversary under its constellation-themed moniker Pensive Ursa. “As the code of the […]
A Florida man was sentenced to prison last week for his role in a hacking scheme that resulted in the theft of approximately $1 million in cryptocurrency. The 20–year-old Orlando man, identified as Jordan Dave Persad, was found guilty of hacking into victims’ email accounts and hijacking their phone numbers to gain access to cryptocurrency […]
The Russian APT28 hacking group, also known as ‘Strontium’ or ‘Fancy Bear,’ has been targeting government entities, businesses, universities, research institutes, and think tanks in France since the second half of 2021.
A former US Navy IT manager was sentenced to five years and five months in prison for hacking into a database, stealing personally identifiable information (PII), and selling it on the dark web. The man, Marquis Hooper, 32, of Selma, California, who was a chief petty officer, opened under false pretenses an account at a […]
Oct 16, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Hacking Pro-Russian hacking groups have exploited a recently disclosed security vulnerability in the WinRAR archiving utility as part of a phishing campaign designed to harvest credentials from compromised systems. “The attack involves the use of malicious archive files that exploit the recently discovered vulnerability affecting the WinRAR compression software versions prior […]