The Magecart continues to target websites worldwide, it infected over 17,000 domains by targeting improperly secured Amazon S3 buckets. The Magecart gang made the headlines again, according to a new report published by RiskIQ, it has infected over 17,000 domains by targeting improperly secured Amazon S3 buckets. A few days ago, security experts at Sanguine Security have […]
A new variant of the implements a unique protocol to communicate with Command and Control infrastructure A new variant of the Miori botnet uses a unique protocol to communicate with C&C infrastructure, it implements a protection mechanism to access the login panel. The Miori bot borrows the code from the dreaded Mirai malware. it first […]
BITPoint Japan-based cryptocurrency announced that hackers have stolen more than $32 million (3.5 billion yen) worth of cryptocurrency due to a cyber attack. BITPoint Japan-based cryptocurrency was victim of a cyber attack, the Remixpoint’s subsidiary announced that hackers have stolen more than $32 million (3.5 billion yen) worth of cryptocurrency. BITPoint discovered the security breach […]
The CVE-2019-1132 flaw addressed by Microsoft this month was exploited by Buhtrap threat actor to target a government organization in Eastern Europe. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, including two privilege escalation flaws actively exploited in the wild. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1132, affects the Win32k component and could be […]
Malware researchers at two security firms Intezer and Anomali have discovered a new piece of ransomware targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Experts at security firms Intezer and Anomali have separately discovered a new piece of ransomware targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. NAS servers are a privileged target for hackers because they normally store […]
The Maryland Department of Labor announced it has suffered a data breach announced that exposed personally identifiable information. The Maryland Department of Labor suffered a data breach, hackers accessed databases containing personally identifiable information (PII). The security breach was discovered earlier this year, hackers also accessed data stored in the Literacy Works Information System and […]
Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team discovered a fileless malware campaign that was spreading the information stealing Astaroth Trojan. Experts at the Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team discovered a fileless malware campaign that is delivering the information stealing Astaroth Trojan. The malware is able to log the users’ keystrokes, collect information through hooking, access clipboard content, and monitor […]
Government computer systems at La Porte County, Indiana, were shut down after a cyber attack hit them on July 6. Experts believe it was a ransomware attack. On July 6, a cyber attack brought down government computer systems at La Porte County, Indiana. At the time of writing, there were only a few details about […]
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined British Airways with £183 million for failing to protect its customers’ data during last year’s security breach. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined British Airways with £183 million for failing to protect the personal information of roughly 500,000 customers during 2018 security breach. “Following an extensive investigation the ICO […]
Security experts have uncovered a Magecart large-scale payment card skimming campaign that compromised 962 online stores based on Magento. Security experts at Sanguine Security have uncovered a new large-scale payment card skimming campaign that already hacked 962 online stores running on the Magento CMS. The list of hacked e-commerce also includes a number of websites belonging […]