Fortinet has issued an alert warning that the Gafgyt botnet malware is actively trying to exploit a vulnerability in the end-of-life Zyxel P660HN-T1A router in thousands of daily attacks.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) reported it had found concrete attempts by the group known as Charming Kitten to target the Iranian opposition and exiles based in Germany.

Intelligence gathered in cyberspace is helping Ukraine understand Russia’s plans and stop the enemy from carrying them out, according to the country’s top cyber and information security official.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-39250, is caused by a static AES encryption key, shared across all installs, that is used to encrypt the vCenter credentials stored in the program’s configuration file.

The NSA Codebreaker Challenge is a competition for high school and university students across the US that started in 2013 to explain what the missions of NSA agents are using fictitious scenarios.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new advisory detailing the malware, dubbed “Whirlpool.” It claimed the backdoor established a TLS reverse shell to a command-and-control (C2) server.

Indian lawmakers Wednesday approved a data protection legislation that “seeks to better regulate big tech firms and penalize companies for data breaches” as several groups expressed concern over citizens’ privacy rights.

The LockBit gang added 15 victims to its leak site on Wednesday including El Cerrito, which is home to more than 25,000 residents and is about 10 minutes north of Oakland.

The strategy’s primary pillars – unification, resilience, and preparedness – are designed to enable New York State to not only deter cyberattacks but also neutralize potential threats effectively.

Anewly identified cyberespionage group in Belarus is targeting foreign embassies often with the assistance of local internet service providers, researchers with the cybersecurity firm ESET said Thursday.