Insurance giant Globe Life says an unknown threat actor attempted to extort money in exchange for not publishing data stolen from the company’s systems earlier this year. […]
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Top 5 Cloud Security Automations for SecOps Teams
Learn about 5 powerful cloud security automations with Blink Ops to simplify security operations like S3 bucket monitoring, subdomain takeover detection and failed EC2 login detection. […]
Iranian hackers act as brokers selling critical infrastructure access
Iranian hackers are breaching critical infrastructure organizations to collect credentials and network data that can be sold on cybercriminal forums to enable cyberattacks from other threat actors. […]
Google: 70% of exploited flaws disclosed in 2023 were zero-days
Mandiant security analysts warn of a worrying new trend of threat actors demonstrating a better capability to discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in software. […]
USDoD hacker behind National Public Data breach arrested in Brazil
A notorious hacker named USDoD, who is linked to the National Public Data and InfraGard breaches, has been arrested by Brazil’s Polícia Federal in “Operation Data Breach”. […]
SolarWinds Web Help Desk flaw is now exploited in attacks
CISA has added three flaws to its ‘Known Exploited Vulnerabilities’ (KEV) catalog, among which is a critical hardcoded credentials flaw in SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) that the vendor fixed in late August 2024. […]
US disrupts Anonymous Sudan DDoS operation, indicts 2 Sudanese brothers
The United States Department of Justice unsealed an indictment today against two Sudanese brothers suspected of being the operators of Anonymous Sudan, a notorious and dangerous hacktivist group known for conducting over 35,000 DDoS attacks in a year. […]
Critical Kubernetes Image Builder flaw gives SSH root access to VMs
A critical vulnerability in Kubernetes could allow unauthorized SSH access to a virtual machine running an image created with the Kubernetes Image Builder project. […]
Understand these seven password attacks and how to stop them
Hackers are always looking for new ways to crack passwords and gain access to your organization’s data and systems. In this post, Specops Software discusses the seven most common password attacks and provide tips on how to defend against them. […]
Malicious ads exploited Internet Explorer zero day to drop malware
The North Korean hacking group ScarCruft launched a large-scale attack in May that leveraged an Internet Explorer zero-day flaw to infect targets with the RokRAT malware and exfiltrate data. […]