The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) mistakenly leaked confidential information for approximately 120,000 taxpayers. Bad news for approximately 120,000 taxpayers who filed a form 990-T as part of their tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service has accidentally leaked their confidential information. Form 990-T is a form that a tax exempt organization files with the IRS to report its unrelated business income and to figure the tax owed on that income. On Friday, the IRS announced it has […]
The author of the remote access trojan (RAT) CodeRAT has leaked the source code of its malware on GitHub. The development team behind the remote access trojan (RAT) CodeRAT has leaked the source code of its malware on GitHub after the SafeBreach Labs researchers recently analyzed a new targeted attack aimed at Farsi-speaking code developers. […]
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Google rolled out emergency fixes to address a vulnerability in the Chrome web browser that is being actively exploited in the wild. Google on Friday released emergency fixes to address a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3075, in the Chrome web browser that is being actively exploited in the wild. The CVE-2022-3075 flaw is caused by insufficient data […]
Electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a new data breach after some of its US systems were compromised in July. After the attack that hit the company in late July 2022, Samsung disclosed a data breach. The Electronics giant discovered on August 4 that threat actors have had access to its systems and exfiltrated customer personal […]
Researchers attribute the Raspberry Robin malware to the Russian cybercrime group known as Evil Corp group. IBM Security X-Force researchers discovered similarities between a component used in the Raspberry Robin malware and a Dridex malware loader, which was part of the malicious operations of the cybercrime gang Evil Corp. Raspberry Robin is a Windows worm discovered […]
Researchers discovered that the infrastructure used in Cisco hack was the same used to target a Workforce Management Solution firm. Researchers from cybersecurity firm eSentire discovered that the attack infrastructure used in recent Cisco hack was also used to attack a top Workforce Management corporation in in April 2022. The experts also speculate that the […]
The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Portuguese state-owned flag carrier airline TAP Air Portugal and stolen customers’ data. The Ragnar Locker ransomware added the Portuguese state-owned flag carrier airline TAP Air Portugal to its leak site and claims to have stolen customers’ data. On August 26, the Portugues company announced via […]
Researchers discovered 1,859 Android and iOS apps containing hard-coded Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials. Researchers from Broadcom Symantec’s Threat Hunter team discovered 1,859 Android and iOS apps containing hard-coded Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials that allowed access to private cloud services. The experts pointed out that most of the apps containing hard-coded Amazon Web Services […]
A team of cybersecurity experts from the US FBI will help the authorities in Montenegro to investigate the recent massive cyberattack. A team of cybersecurity experts from the FBI is heading to Montenegro to help local authorities in investigating the recent massive cyber attack that hit the government infrastructure last week. “This is another confirmation […]