“The issue had an impact on a specific portion of our cloud-based infrastructure leading to downtime for a small number of cloud customers,” Leaseweb told customers in an email notification.
The updated software now supports a proof-of-work challenge called EquiX. Designed by Tevador, who developed Monero’s proof-of-work algorithm, it is “a CPU-friendly client puzzle with fast verification and small solution size (16 bytes).
On July 28, KittenSec claimed in a Telegram post to have hacked multiple Romanian government systems and posted a file containing roughly 36 gigabytes of data, including emails, documents, contracts, and healthcare-related data.
The Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP) Platform has seen “tremendous growth” in onboarding 40 agency programs since its launch in July 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Friday in a news release.
The Lazarus group was associated with a new campaign against healthcare entities in Europe and the U.S. In this campaign, the attackers exploited a ManageEngine ServiceDesk vulnerability (CVE-2022-47966) to distribute the QuiteRAT malware. The malware has many capabilities similar to MagicRAT, another malware from the Lazarus group.
Arion Kurtaj, 18, was deemed by psychiatrists to be unfit to stand trial. Though he could not be found “guilty” of committing the acts with criminal intent, a jury at Southwark Crown Court determined that he was at least the one who carried them out.
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights said UnitedHealthcare had agreed to settle a case involving potential HIPAA violations related to allegations that the company took six months to fulfill a health plan member’s request to access his PHI.
QakBot, SocGholish, and Raspberry Robin are the most prevalent malware loaders causing havoc for security teams, with QakBot being the most versatile and persistent threat.
The duo operated the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer that facilitated more than $1 billion in money laundering transactions and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for the Lazarus APT group.
The Antibot web traffic filtering service, originally a GitHub project, has evolved into a commercial platform for malicious actors, offering features like cloaking to evade analysis and prolong phishing and malware campaigns.