A number of elected officials, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, law enforcement officers, right-wing media outlets, and far-right extremists have boosted a baseless conspiracy theory that Jewish Hungarian billionaire George Soros or some nefarious shadowy organization is helping to fund the pro-Palestinian student protests at universities across the US. They are promoting the […]
In recent months, we have encountered a number of cases where attackers inject malware into website software that allows for custom or miscellaneous code — for example, the miscellaneous scripts area of the Magento admin panel, or WordPress plugins such as Custom CSS & JS. Custom script editors are popular with bad actors because they […]
Nvidia today introduced a number of new AI services and infrastructure for enterprises and cloud providers that need more computing power to build large language models and AI-powered apps. The company released a raft of products during its annual GTC AI developer conference, focused on bolstering its dominance in the exploding GenAI market. Nvidia touted […]
February was a particularly busy month for search-based malvertising with the number of incidents we documented almost doubling. We saw similar payloads being dropped but also a few new ones that were particularly good at evading detection. One malware family we have been tracking on this blog is FakeBat. It is very unique in that […]
A number of French government agencies have been hit by “intense” cyberattacks, the prime minister’s office announced on Monday. The nature of the attacks, which began on Sunday night, has not been confirmed although the description is consistent with distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The French government said the attack was “conducted using familiar technical means but […]
The Pentagon is in the process of alerting an undisclosed number of current and former employees, job applicants and partners that their sensitive personal information may have been exposed online in a “data breach incident” that was first detected in early 2023. DefenseScoop viewed a notice — dated Feb. 1, 2024 and sent by the […]
The company has discovered a limited number of individuals whose personal information may have been impacted during the breach and is working with a third-party forensics firm to assess the extent of the attack’s impact on its operations and systems.
The hacker changed the AS number associated with Orange Spain’s IP addresses and enabled an invalid RPKI configuration, causing the IP addresses to no longer be announced properly.
A cyberattack has affected the networks and business activities of First American Financial Corporation and a number of its subsidiaries. The bank has also filed an update of the cyberattack on First American Financial Corporation to the Securities and Exchange Commission of the US. The bank’s filing can be fetched from the website of SEC […]