ESET discovered a stealthy Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit dubbed BlackLotus that is able to bypass the Secure Boot on Windows 11. Researchers from ESET discovered a new stealthy Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit, named BlackLotus, that is able to bypass Secure Boot on Windows 11. Secure Boot is a security feature of the […]
Satellite TV giant Dish Network has confirmed that the recent outage was caused by a ransomware attack, it also disclosed a data breach. Satellite TV giant Dish Network finally admitted that the recent outage was caused by a ransomware attack. The American satellite broadcast provider went offline on February 24, 2023, the outage impacted Dish.com, […]
Experts warn of a new wave of attacks against cryptocurrency entities, threat actors are using a RAT dubbed Parallax RAT for Infiltration. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Uptycs warns of attacks targeting cryptocurrency organizations with the Parallax remote access Trojan (RAT). Parallax RAT has been distributed through malvertising and phishing campaigns since December 2019. The malware supports […]
Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now available for Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers. Google announced that Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now available for all Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers. In December, Google announced end-to-end encryption for Gmail (E2EE), with Gmail client-side encryption beta users can […]
Antivirus company Bitdefender has released a free decryptor for the recently discovered ransomware family MortalKombat. Good news for the victims of the recently discovered MortalKombat ransomware, the antivirus firm Bitdefender has released a free decryptor that will allow them to recover their file without paying the ransom. Since December 2022, Cisco Talos researchers have been observing an unidentified financially […]
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) was the victim of a ransomware attack, it is investigating the theft of sensitive information. The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) announced that a ransomware attack has impacted “a stand-alone USMS system.” The US bureau is investigating the theft of sensitive information following the security breach. The infection occurred on February […]
US CISA added an actively exploited vulnerability in the ZK Java Web Framework to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-36537 (CVSS score: 7.5), in the ZK Java Web open-source framework to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. An attacker can exploit the flaw to retrieve […]
Resecurity identified one of the largest investment fraud networks, tracked as Digital Smoke, by size and volume of operations. Resecurity identified one of the largest investment fraud networks by size and volume of operations created to defraud Internet users from Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, the European Union, India, Singapore, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, […]
Threat actors hacked the home computer of a DevOp engineer, they installed a keylogger as part of a sophisticated cyber attack. Password management software firm LastPass disclosed a “second attack,” a threat actor used data stolen from the August security breach and combined it with information available from a third-party data breach. Then the attackers […]
Data allegedly stolen from the American gaming giant Activision in December security breach were leaked on a cybercrime forum. A threat actor leaked on the Breached hacking forum the data allegedly stolen from the gaming giant Activision in December 2022. The threat actors claim to have obtained 19,444 unique records from an Activision Azure database […]