Cybersecurity

Novel Ahoi attacks could compromise confidential VMs

Confidential virtual machines could be breached through two different types of novel Ahoi attacks, reports SecurityWeek. Intrusions leveraging the first technique, dubbed “Heckler,” involved the targeting of hardware-based trusted execution environments running on Intel’s Trust Domain Extensions and AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging technologies with malicious hypervisors that sought to facilitate authentication evasion and […]

Cybersecurity

Mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile discloses a data breach

Mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile discloses a data breach Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2023 Mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile suffered a new data breach, threat actors had access to customers’ personal information. Mint Mobile experienced a recent data breach, exposing customers’ personal information to unauthorized access by threat actors. Mint Mobile is a […]

Cybersecurity

US sanctions Russian accused of laundering virtual currency for ransomware affiliate

The Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned a Russian woman accused of laundering virtual currency on behalf of the country’s elites and cybercriminals, including an affiliate of Ryuk ransomware. According to the Office of Foreign Assets Control, Ekaterina Zhdanova worked to help other Russians evade sanctions imposed on the country’s financial system after the invasion of […]