Western Digital is notifying its customers of a data breach that exposed their sensitive personal information, the incident took place in March. In March 2022, Western Digital was hit by a ransomware attack and in response to the incident, it shut down several of its services. The company disclosed that an unauthorized party gained access […]
Ukraine’s CERT-UA warns of an ongoing phishing campaign aimed at distributing the SmokeLoader malware in the form of a polyglot file. CERT-UA warns of an ongoing phishing campaign that is distributing the SmokeLoader malware in the form of a polyglot file. Threat actors are using emails sent from compromised accounts with the subject “bill/payment” with […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the largest-ever award, approximately $279 million, to a whistleblower. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) paid a record sum of approximately $279 million to a whistleblower. The award was paid to a whistleblower whose information and assistance led to the successful enforcement of SEC and related actions. The […]
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that it has paid a $1.1-million ransom after the April ransomware attack. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department opted to pay a $1.1-million ransom after a ransomware attack infected its systems in early April. The ransomware attack forced the Police department to temporarily shut down some of its […]
An APT group tracked as Dragon Breath has been observed employing a new DLL sideloading technique. Sophos researchers observed an APT group, tracked as Dragon Breath (aka APT-Q-27 and Golden Eye), that is using a new DLL sideloading technique that adds complexity and layers to the execution of the classic DLL sideloading. The attack consists of a clean […]
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A security problem caused the public sharing of private tweets sent to Twitter Circles to users outside of the Circle, the company admitted. Since August 2022, the Twitter Circle feature allows users to send tweets to a restricted circle of users, these messages are not visible to Twitter users outside the Circle. As reported by […]
The FBI disrupted once again the illegal eBook library Z-Library the authorities seized several domains used by the service. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized multiple domains used by the illegal shadow eBook library Z-Library. Z-Library is the world’s largest illegal library and claims to offer more than 11 million e-books for download. The library […]
Fortinet has addressed a couple of high-severity vulnerabilities impacting FortiADC, FortiOS, and FortiProxy. Fortinet addressed nine security vulnerabilities affecting multiple products, including two high-severity issues, tracked as CVE-2023-27999 and CVE-2023-22640, in FortiADC, FortiOS, and FortiProxy. The CVE-2023-27999 flaw (CVSS score 7.6) is a command injection issue in the external resource module. “An improper neutralization of […]
The French Senate’s website was taken offline by a DDoS attack launched by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName. The pro-Russia hacker group NoName is claiming responsibility for a DDoS attack that took the website of the French Senate offline. “Access to the Senate website has been disrupted since this morning, our team is fully mobilized […]