One of the U.S.’s most popular zoos has been hit with a cyberattack involving the theft of employee and vendor information, and a likely offshoot of the Royal ransomware gang is taking credit.
The Vietnamese threat actors are using malicious Chrome extensions to steal Facebook account credentials, with over 800 victims worldwide and $180K in compromised ad budget.
While overall crypto proceeds, including from crimes such as scams, fell dramatically over the past year, ransomware funds are expected to hit $899 million in 2023, according to Chainalysis.
The 1756 EN2 and 1756 EN3 products are impacted by CVE-2023-3595, a critical flaw that can allow attackers to achieve remote code execution with persistence on targeted systems by using specially crafted Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) messages.
“An attacker could create a specially crafted Microsoft Office document that enables them to perform remote code execution in the context of the victim,” reads the advisory published by Microsoft.
About 39% of businesses experienced a data breach in their cloud environment last year, an increase from the 35% reported in 2022, according to Thales. Human error was reported as the leading cause of cloud data breaches by 55% of those surveyed.
FortiGuard Labs recently uncovered a concerning discovery in their investigation, revealing a series of malicious Microsoft Office documents designed to take advantage of well-known vulnerabilities.
During its operation from 2011 until 2013, Silk Road was used by thousands of drug dealers to distribute narcotics and other illicit goods and services to more than 100,000 buyers and to launder hundreds of millions from those unlawful transactions.
A British Crown Court on Tuesday lifted a reporting restriction, allowing the naming of teenager Arion Kurtaj who is accused of hacking Uber, Revolut, and video game developer Rockstar Games in a short period of time last September.
The total amount of ransom paid since 2020 is estimated to be at least $2 billion, and this has both motivated and enabled the groups who are profiting from this activity to become more professional.