Latest headlines from security outlets
Collected every two hours from specialised publications — each link leads to the original article.
Rackspace Confirms Play Ransomware Gang Responsible for Recent Breach
Cloud services provider Rackspace on Thursday confirmed that the ransomware gang known as Play was responsible for last month's breach.The security incident, w…
Hackers Sign Android Malware Apps with Compromised Platform Certificates
Platform certificates used by Android smartphone vendors like Samsung, LG, and MediaTek have been found to be abused to sign malicious apps.The findings were f…
LastPass Suffers Another Security Breach; Exposed Some Customers Information
Popular password management service LastPass said it's investigating a second security incident that involved attackers accessing some of its customer informat…
Debian LTS: DLA-3109-1: nova security update
It was found that authenticated users could trigger a fault in Nova, a cloud computing fabric controller, to cause information leak. In addition, this update i…
Linux Malware on the Ri
Ransomware, cryptojacking, and a cracked version of the penetration-testing tool Cobalt Strike have increasingly targeted Linux in multicloud infrastructure, r…
Chrome Limits Websites' Direct Access to Private Networks for Security Reasons
Google Chrome has announced plans to prohibit public websites from directly accessing endpoints located within private networks as part of an upcoming major se…
Are Medical Devices at Risk of Ransomware Attacks?
In May 2017, the first documented ransomware assault on networked medical equipment happened. The worldwide ransomware assault WannaCry compromised radiologica…
Over 500,000 Android Users Downloaded a New Joker Malware App from Play Store
A malicious Android app with more than 500,000 downloads from the Google Play app store has been found hosting malware that stealthily exfiltrates users' conta…
New Malvertising Campaigns Spreading Backdoors, Malicious Chrome Extensions
A series of malicious campaigns have been leveraging fake installers of popular apps and games such as Viber, WeChat, NoxPlayer, and Battlefield as a lure to t…
Hackers Exploit macOS Zero-Day to Hack Hong Kong Users with new Implant
Google researchers on Thursday disclosed that it found a watering hole attack in late August exploiting a now-patched zero-day in macOS operating system and ta…
VirusTotal Releases Ransomware Report Based on Analysis of 80 Million Samples
As many as 130 different ransomware families have been found to be active in 2020 and the first half of 2021, with Israel, South Korea, Vietnam, China, Singapo…
HolesWarm Malware Exploits Unpatched Windows, Linux Servers
The HolesWarm botnet cryptominer has already compromised 1,000-plus clouds since June.
Beware! New Android Malware Hacks Thousands of Facebook Accounts
A new Android trojan has been found to compromise Facebook accounts of over 10,000 users in at least 144 countries since March 2021 via fraudulent apps distrib…
New Bug Could Let Attackers Hijack Zimbra Server by Sending Malicious Email
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in Zimbra email collaboration software that could be potentially exploited to compr…
Wormable DarkRadiation Ransomware Targets Linux and Docker Instances
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm bell over a new ransomware strain called "DarkRadiation" that's implemented entirely in Bash and targets Linux…
Tesla Ransomware Hacker Pleads Guilty; Swiss Hacktivist Charged for Fraud
The U.S. Department of Justice yesterday announced updates on two separate cases involving cyberattacks'a Swiss hacktivist and a Russian hacker who planned to …
Extortion Gang Breaches Cybersecurity Firm Qualys Using Accellion Exploit
Enterprise cloud security firm Qualys has become the latest victim to join a long list of entities to have suffered a data breach after zero-day vulnerabilitie…
5 Places Where Hackers Are Stealthily Stealing Your Data In 2019
Skyrocketing data breaches bring incalculable losses to organizations and can cost cybersecurity executives their jobs.Here we examine the top five places in 2…
The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack
It seems like the prolonged downtime and technical difficulties faced by The Pirate Bay over the past several weeks were due to a series of distributed denial …
How to Avoid the Top Three Causes of Data Breaches in 2019
What's the price of unprotected IT infrastructure? Cybercrime Magazine says that global damages will surpass $6 billion as soon as 2021.Here we'll go through s…
Breaches are now commonplace, but Reason Cybersecurity lets users guard their privacy
There has been no shortage of massive security breaches so far this year. Just last July, Capital One disclosed that it was hit by a breach that affected more …