The Spanish Ministry of Labor and Social Economy (MITES) was hit by a cyberattack and is working to restore impacted services. Spain’s Ministry of Labor and Social Economy (MITES) was hit by a cyberattack on Wednesday and is working to restore impacted services. MITES is a ministerial department with an annual budget of almost âŹ39 million, charged […]
Experts found four security flaws in the Microsoft Office suite that cloud allow attackers to weaponize Word and Excel docs. Experts from Check Point discovered four security vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Office suite that an attacker could exploit to craft weaponized Word and Excel documents. Below the list of flaws discovered by the experts: CVE-2021-31179Â – […]
A large number of popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, PayPal, GitHub, gov.uk, CNN, and the BBC are currently facing problems due to a glitch at Fastly CDN provider. A large number of popular websites, including BCC, CNN, GitHub, gov.uk, HBO Max, PayPal, Reddit, Shopify, Spotify, The Guardian, Twitch, Vimeo, The Guardian, and The New York Times […]
Trojan Shield operation: The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Dutch National Police (Politie), and the Swedish Police Authority (Polisen), along with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and police from 16 other […]
US officials announced to have recovered most of the $4.3 million ransom that Colonial Pipeline paid to the DarkSide ransomware gang last month. During a video press conference, US officials announced to have recovered most of the $4.3 million ransomware that Colonial Pipeline paid to the DarkSide ransomware gang. The Colonial Pipeline facility in Pelham, […]
RockYou2021, the largest password compilation of all time has been leaked on a popular hacker forum, it contains 8.4 billion entries of passwords. Original post at: https://cybernews.com/security/rockyou2021-alltime-largest-password-compilation-leaked/ What seems to be the largest password collection of all time has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. A forum user posted a massive 100GB TXT file […]
Siloscape is a new strain of malware that targets Windows Server containers to execute code on the underlying node and spread in the Kubernetes cluster. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks have spotted a piece of malware that targets Windows Server containers to execute code on the underlying node and then drop a backdoor into Kubernetes […]
Ukraine warned of a âmassiveâ spear-phishing campaign carried out by Russia-linked threat actors against its government and private businesses. Three Ukrainian cybersecurity agencies (Ukrainian Secret Service, Ukrainian Cyber Police, and CERT Ukraine), including the Ukrainian Secret Service, warned last week of a âmassiveâ spear-phishing campaign conducted by Russia-linked hackers against its government and organizations in the private […]
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Shielder discovered a remote code execution on QNAP Qâcenter through a manipulated QPKG installation package. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Shielder discovered a remote code execution flaw on QNAP Qâcenter through a manipulated QPKG installation package. The vulnerability was discovered by the cyber security expert`zi0Black` from Shielder Qâcenter now provides Qâcenter Virtual […]
Cybercriminals in Russian underground forums have been invited to take part in competitions for hacking cryptocurrency and NFT. Several Russian underground forums have launched competitions for hacking cryptocurrency schema and Non-fungible token (NFT). “Over the past month, operators of one of the top Russian-language cybercrime forums have been running a âcontest,â calling for the community […]