Meta’s online ad library shows the company is hosting thousands of ads for AI-generated, NSFW companion or “girlfriend” apps on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. They promote chatbots offering sexually explicit images and text, using NSFW chat samples and AI images of partially clothed, unbelievably shaped, simulated women. Many of the virtual women seen in ads […]
An elite team of Iranian state-sponsored hackers successfully infiltrated hundreds of thousands of employee accounts at US companies and government agencies, according to the Feds, as part of a multiyear cyber espionage campaign aimed at stealing military secrets. The US Departments of Treasury and State are among those compromised in the elaborate campaign, which lasted […]
A flaw in the Forminator plugin impacts hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2024 Japan’s CERT warns of a vulnerability in the Forminator WordPress plugin that allows unrestricted file uploads to the server. Japan’s CERT warned that the WordPress plugin Forminator, developed by WPMU DEV, is affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including a […]
Two US insurance companies are warning that thousands of individuals’ personal information may have been stolen after hackers compromised computer systems. Washington National Insurance and Bankers Life, both subsidiaries of the CNO Financial Group, were targeted by SIM-swapping hackers in November 2023. As we’ve described before, SIM-swapping attacks involve fraudsters tricking customer support staff at […]
Ukraine’s defense intelligence directorate (GUR) said it infected thousands of servers belonging to Russia’s state tax service with malware, and destroyed databases and backups. During the operation, Ukraine’s military spies said they managed to break into one of the “key well-protected central servers” of Russia’s federal tax service (FNS) as well as more than 2,300 […]
Discord has been a breeding ground for cybercriminals, with thousands of malware operations exploiting its CDN URLs to distribute and install malicious payloads on compromised systems.
The top-level domain for the United States — .US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. The findings come close on the heels of a report that identified .US domains as among the most prevalent in phishing attacks […]
Despite patches being available, thousands of Cisco IOS XE devices remain compromised, with major telecommunications and internet providers being particularly affected by such attacks.
Oct 26, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Cyber Attack Cloudflare on Thursday said it mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that exploited a recently disclosed flaw called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, 89 of which exceeded 100 million requests per second (RPS). “The campaign contributed to an overall increase of 65% in HTTP DDoS attack traffic […]
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