MIVD waarschuwt: Russen hebben het gemunt op westerse hulp aan Oekraïne post, september 5, 2024september 6, 2024 De Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD) waarschuwt voor Russische cyberoperaties van GRU-eenheid 29155. De focus van de hackers van deze Russische militaire geheime dienst ligt onder meer op het in beeld krijgen en verstoren van de westerse hulp aan Oekraïne. Hun operaties richten zich met name op westerse overheden en… Continue Reading
Planned Parenthood confirms cyberattack as RansomHub claims breach post, september 5, 2024 Planned Parenthood has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack affecting its IT systems, forcing it to take parts of its infrastructure offline to contain the damage. Planned Parenthood is a New York-based nonprofit organization that provides a range of reproductive health care services, education, and advocacy for birth control. It is… Continue Reading
White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown post, september 5, 2024 The Biden administration on Wednesday seized 32 websites and charged two employees of a state-owned media outlet connected to a $10 million scheme to distribute pro-Kremlin propaganda, and claimed the actions were necessary to counter Russia’s attempts to influence the upcoming US presidential election. This is all part of the… Continue Reading
New Flaws in Microsoft macOS Apps Could Allow Hackers to Gain Unrestricted Access post, september 3, 2024 Eight vulnerabilities have been uncovered in Microsoft applications for macOS that an adversary could exploit to gain elevated privileges or access sensitive data by circumventing the operating system’s permissions-based model, which revolves around the Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) framework. “If successful, the adversary could gain any privileges already granted… Continue Reading
RansomHub Ransomware Group Targets 210 Victims Across Critical Sectors post, september 2, 2024september 3, 2024 Threat actors linked to the RansomHub ransomware group encrypted and exfiltrated data from at least 210 victims since its inception in February 2024, the U.S. government said. The victims span various sectors, including water and wastewater, information technology, government services and facilities, healthcare and public health, emergency services, food and agriculture, financial… Continue Reading
FBI Issues Urgent Ransomware Attack Warning—Do These 3 Things Now post, augustus 31, 2024september 2, 2024 Organizations have been warned that a new ransomware gang has been responsible for hundreds of successful cyberattacks since February 2024. In an urgent joint advisory published August 29, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation along with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed that organizations across almost every conceivable industry sector have… Continue Reading
Notorious Iranian Hackers Have Been Targeting the Space Industry With a New Backdoor post, augustus 28, 2024september 2, 2024 The Iranian government-backed hacking group known as APT 33 has been active for more than 10 years, conducting aggressive espionage operations against a diverse array of public and private sector victims around the world, including critical infrastructure targets. And while the group is particularly known for strategic but technically simple attacks like “password spraying,” it has… Continue Reading
Iranian hackers target WhatsApp accounts of Biden and Trump administration associates, Meta says post, augustus 24, 2024augustus 26, 2024 An Iranian hacker group targeted the WhatsApp accounts of individuals associated with the administrations of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Meta announced Friday. “This malicious activity originated in Iran and attempted to target individuals in Israel, Palestine, Iran, the United States and the UK,” the social media giant said in… Continue Reading
New macOS Malware “Cthulhu Stealer” Targets Apple Users’ Data post, augustus 23, 2024 Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new information stealer that’s designed to target Apple macOS hosts and harvest a wide range of information, underscoring how threat actors are increasingly setting their sights on the operating system. Dubbed Cthulhu Stealer, the malware has been available under a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model for $500… Continue Reading
Google Fixes High-Severity Chrome Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild post, augustus 22, 2024augustus 23, 2024 Google has rolled out security fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-7971, the vulnerability has been described as a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. “Type confusion in V8… Continue Reading