The domain of the notorious BreachForums data leak and hacking forum has been taken down by rival threat actors. The threat actor group, R00TK1T, along with the Cyber Army of Russia, announced a breach of user data following the takedown.
Due to multiple reasons, the Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force threw cold water on the need for a ransomware payment ban in a report released Wednesday.
Two individuals have been arrested in Australia and the U.S. in connection with an alleged scheme to develop and distribute a remote access trojan called Hive RAT (previously Firebird).
Internet traffic associated with malicious bots now accounts for a third (32%) of the total, driving a 10% year-on-year (YoY) increase in account takeover (ATO) attacks last year, according to Imperva.
The FTC in its complaint against Cerebral Inc. and the company’s former CEO Kyle Robertson, alleges unfair or deceptive practice violations of the FTC Act and the Opioid Act, which pertains to substance use disorder treatment services.
“Exchange Online enforces a Recipient Rate limit of 10,000 recipients. The 2,000 ERR limit will become a sub-limit within this 10,000 Recipient Rate limit,” the Exchange Team said on Monday.
New cybersecurity research has found that command-line interface (CLI) tools from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud can expose sensitive credentials in build logs, posing significant risks to organizations.
Microsoft was impersonated in 38% of all brand phishing attacks in Q1 2024, according to new data from Check Point. Google was the second most impersonated brand in Q1 2024, making up 11% of attempts.
The attack chain sees hackers targeting a list of sensor gateways IPs. Threat actors distributed their malware to each target, likely either through remote-access protocols such as SSH or the sensor protocol (SBK) over port 4321.
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe’s proposed agreement with plaintiffs, filed last week in a northern California federal court, settles four proposed consolidated class action lawsuits filed against it in the wake of the March 2023 hacking incident.