The U.S. Treasury sanctioned entities for disinformation tied to Russian and Iranian intelligence before the 2024 presidential elections. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned entities for spreading disinformation linked to Russian and Iranian intelligence ahead of the 2024 presidential elections. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Moscow’s Center for Geopolitical Expertise (CGE), founded by OFAC-designated Aleksandr Dugin, for spreading disinformation and […]
Rhode Island âs health benefits system was hacked, and threat actors leaked residents’ data on the dark web. Cybercriminals leaked data stolen from Rhode Island ‘s health benefits system on the dark web. Gov. Daniel McKee stated the state had prepared for this and is informing impacted individuals. RIBridges supports state programs like Medicaid, SNAP, […]
Threat actors compromised at least 16 Chrome browser extensions leading to the exposure of data from over 600,000 users. A supply chain attack compromised 16 Chrome browser extensions, exposing over 600,000 users. Threat actors targeted the publishers of the extensions on the Chrome Web Store via phishing messages, then once obtained access to their account […]
China-linked threat actors breached the U.S. Treasury Department by hacking a remote support platform used by the agency. China-linked threat actors breached the U.S. Treasury Department via a compromised remote support platform. The Treasury Department discovered the security breach on December 8th from its vendor BeyondTrust, according to a letter to lawmakers. BeyondTrust provides Privileged […]
An X user using the handle @NSA_Employee39 disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the open-source file archive software 7-Zip. A verified X account, @NSA_Employee39, claimed to disclose a zero-day vulnerability in the open-source file archive software 7-Zip. The X user announced it would be âdropping 0days all this week,â starting with an arbitrary code execution vulnerability […]
Cisco confirmed the authenticity of the 4GB of leaked data, the data was compromised in a recent security breach, marking the second leak in the incident. Cisco confirmed the authenticity of the 4GB of leaked data, which was compromised in a recent security breach, marking it as the second leak in the incident. “We are […]
VulnCheck researchers warn that threat actors are attempting to exploit a high-severity vulnerability impacting some Four-Faith routers. Cybersecurity firm VulnCheck warns that a high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-12856 (CVSS score: 7.2), in Four-Faith routers is actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability is an operating system (OS) command injection vulnerability that impacts Four-Faith router models F3x24 and […]
ZAGG Inc. notifies customers of credit card data breach, after threat actors hacked a third-party app from its e-commerce provider. ZAGG Inc. disclosed a data breach that exposed its customers’ credit card data after threat actors hacked a third-party application from its e-commerce provider BigCommerce. The company has not disclosed the number of impacted customers were […]
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Pro-Russia group NoName057 targets Italian sites, including Malpensa and Linate airports, in a new DDoS campaign amid rising geopolitical tensions. The pro-Russia group NoName57 continues its campaign of DDoS attacks against Italian infrastructure. This time, the group of alleged hacktivists targeted multiple websites, include the sites of Malpensa and Linate airports, as well as the […]