- Ghost Tap: Hackers Exploiting NFCGate to Steal Funds via Mobile Paymentsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 20, 2024 at 1:09 pm
Threat actors are increasingly banking on a new technique that leverages near-field communication (NFC) to cash out victim’s funds at scale. The technique, codenamed Ghost Tap by […]
- NHIs Are the Future of Cybersecurity: Meet NHIDRby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 20, 2024 at 11:30 am
The frequency and sophistication of modern cyberattacks are surging, making it increasingly challenging for organizations to protect sensitive data and critical infrastructure. […]
- Decades-Old Security Vulnerabilities Found in Ubuntu’s Needrestart Packageby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 20, 2024 at 9:16 am
Multiple decade-old security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the needrestart package installed by default in Ubuntu Server (since version 21.04) that could allow a local […]
- Microsoft Launches Windows Resiliency Initiative to Boost Security and System Integrityby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 20, 2024 at 7:00 am
Microsoft has announced a new Windows Resiliency Initiative as a way to improve security and reliability, as well as ensure that system integrity is not compromised. The idea, the […]
- China-Backed Hackers Leverage SIGTRAN, GSM Protocols to Infiltrate Telecom Networksby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 20, 2024 at 6:58 am
A new China-linked cyber espionage group has been attributed as behind a series of targeted cyber attacks targeting telecommunications entities in South Asia and Africa since at […]
- Apple Releases Urgent Updates to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilitiesby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 20, 2024 at 4:37 am
Apple has released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two zero-day flaws that have come under active exploitation in the […]
- Oracle Warns of Agile PLM Vulnerability Currently Under Active Exploitationby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 20, 2024 at 4:24 am
Oracle is warning that a high-severity security flaw impacting the Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Framework has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as […]
- Ngioweb Botnet Fuels NSOCKS Residential Proxy Network Exploiting IoT Devicesby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 19, 2024 at 2:01 pm
The malware known as Ngioweb has been used to fuel a notorious residential proxy service called NSOCKS, as well as by other services such as VN5Socks and Shopsocks5, new findings […]
- Hackers Hijack Unsecured Jupyter Notebooks to Stream Illegal Sports Broadcastsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 19, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Malicious actors are exploiting misconfigured JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks to conduct stream ripping and enable sports piracy using live streaming capture tools. The attacks […]
- Privileged Accounts, Hidden Threats: Why Privileged Access Security Must Be a Top Priorityby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 19, 2024 at 11:30 am
Privileged accounts are well-known gateways for potential security threats. However, many organizations focus solely on managing privileged accessβrather than securing the […]
- New ‘Helldown’ Ransomware Variant Expands Attacks to VMware and Linux Systemsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 19, 2024 at 9:40 am
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Linux variant of a relatively new ransomware strain called Helldown, suggesting that the threat actors are broadening their attack […]
- Chinese Hackers Exploit T-Mobile and Other U.S. Telecoms in Broader Espionage Campaignby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 19, 2024 at 7:02 am
U.S. telecoms giant T-Mobile has confirmed that it was also among the companies that were targeted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to valuable information. The […]
- Warning: VMware vCenter and Kemp LoadMaster Flaws Under Active Exploitationby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 19, 2024 at 6:31 am
Now-patched security flaws impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster and VMware vCenter Server have come under active exploitation in the wild, it has emerged. The U.S. Cybersecurity and […]
- New Stealthy BabbleLoader Malware Spotted Delivering WhiteSnake and Meduza Stealersby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 18, 2024 at 4:48 pm
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new stealthy malware loader called BabbleLoader that has been observed in the wild delivering information stealer families such as […]
- The Problem of Permissions and Non-Human Identities – Why Remediating Credentials Takes Longer Than You Thinkby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 18, 2024 at 2:00 pm
According to research from GitGuardian and CyberArk, 79% of IT decision-makers reported having experienced a secrets leak, up from 75% in the previous year’s report. At the same […]
- THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 11 – Nov 17)by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 18, 2024 at 11:36 am
What do hijacked websites, fake job offers, and sneaky ransomware have in common? Theyβre proof that cybercriminals are finding smarter, sneakier ways to exploit both systems […]
- Gmail’s New Shielded Email Feature Lets Users Create Aliases for Email Privacyby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 18, 2024 at 11:15 am
Google appears to be readying a new feature called Shielded Email that allows users to create email aliases when signing up for online services and better combat spam. The feature […]
- Beyond Compliance: The Advantage of Year-Round Network Pen Testingby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 18, 2024 at 11:15 am
IT leaders know the drillβregulators and cyber insurers demand regular network penetration testing to keep the bad guys out. But hereβs the thing: hackers donβt wait around […]
- Fake Discount Sites Exploit Black Friday to Hijack Shopper Informationby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 18, 2024 at 10:56 am
A new phishing campaign is targeting e-commerce shoppers in Europe and the United States with bogus pages that mimic legitimate brands with the goal of stealing their personal […]
- NSO Group Exploited WhatsApp to Install Pegasus Spyware Even After Meta’s Lawsuitby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 18, 2024 at 5:52 am
Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta’s WhatsApp and NSO Group have revealed that the Israeli spyware vendor used multiple exploits targeting […]
- Urgent: Critical WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over 4 Million Sitesby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 18, 2024 at 4:52 am
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been disclosed in the Really Simple Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) plugin for WordPress that, if successfully exploited, […]
- PAN-OS Firewall Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation β IoCs and Patch Releasedby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 16, 2024 at 8:21 am
Palo Alto Networks has released new indicators of compromise (IoCs) a day after the network security vendor confirmed that a zero-day vulnerability impacting its PAN-OS firewall […]
- Warning: DEEPDATA Malware Exploiting Unpatched Fortinet Flaw to Steal VPN Credentialsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 16, 2024 at 6:25 am
A threat actor known as BrazenBamboo has exploited an unresolved security flaw in Fortinet’s FortiClient for Windows to extract VPN credentials as part of a modular framework […]
- Iranian Hackers Deploy WezRat Malware in Attacks Targeting Israeli Organizationsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 15, 2024 at 5:57 pm
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new remote access trojan and information stealer used by Iranian state-sponsored actors to conduct reconnaissance of compromised […]
- Researchers Warn of Privilege Escalation Risks in Google’s Vertex AI ML Platformby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) (The Hacker News) on November 15, 2024 at 12:35 pm
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in Google’s Vertex machine learning (ML) platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow malicious actors to […]