by Shawn | Mar 24, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Network Security, Security, Security Breach
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a new wave of ongoing attacks exploiting multiple vulnerabilities to deploy new Mirai variants on internet-connected devices. “Upon successful exploitation, the attackers try to download a malicious shell script,...
by Shawn | Mar 17, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Security, Security Breach, Technology News
Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday shed light on a new sophisticated backdoor targeting Linux endpoints and servers that’s believed to be the work of Chinese nation-state actors. Dubbed “RedXOR” by Intezer, the backdoor masquerades as a polkit...
by Shawn | Mar 15, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Network Security, Security, Security Breach
Researchers have discovered a new side-channel that they say can be reliably exploited to leak information and tracking users from web browsers that could then be leveraged to track users even when JavaScript is completely disabled. “This is a side-channel...
by Shawn | Mar 12, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Security, Security Breach
Cybercriminals are now deploying remote access Trojans (ObliqueRAT) under the guise of seemingly innocuous images hosted on infected websites, once again highlighting how threat actors quickly change tactics when their attack methods are discovered and exposed...
by Shawn | Mar 10, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Network Security, Security, Security Breach
Microsoft has released emergency patches to address four previously undisclosed security flaws in Exchange Server that it says are being actively exploited by a new Chinese state-sponsored threat actor with the goal of perpetrating data theft. Describing the attacks...
by Shawn | Mar 5, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Network Security, Security, Security Breach
A prolific North Korean state-sponsored hacking group has been tied to a new ongoing espionage campaign aimed at exfiltrating sensitive information from organizations in the defense industry through ThreatNeedle malware. Attributing the attacks with high confidence to...
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