Attackers said “We announce that we have successfully hacked Microsoft and have access to a large database containing more than 30 million Microsoft accounts, email and password. Price for full database : 50,000 USD.”
Protecting runtime environments requires at least a monitoring approach that includes scanning for known malicious files and network communications, then blocking them and alerting when they appear. However, this is still insufficient.
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the first time cyber experts at GCHQ responded to a foreign state hacking the British government, the intelligence and security agency revealed on Friday.
Police in Britain are investigating multiple incidents in which national exam papers for school-leavers were stolen by hackers and sold online to students seeking to cheat on their tests.
Pay and benefits details of Dublin Airport staff were compromised in a cyberattack on professional service provider Aon, highlighting the vulnerability of supply chain attacks.
A Chinese nation-state group has been observed targeting Foreign Affairs ministries and embassies in Europe using HTML smuggling techniques to deliver the PlugX remote access trojan on compromised systems.
Hundreds of thousands of FortiGate firewalls are vulnerable to a critical security issue identified as CVE-2023-27997, almost a month after Fortinet released an update that addresses the problem.
The GuLoader malware campaign utilizes a multi-stage infection chain, including a PDF lure, a GuLoader VBScript, and obfuscated Powershell scripts, to deliver the Remcos RAT.
Phishing mongers have released a torrent of image-based junk emails that embed QR codes into their bodies to successfully bypass security protections and provide a level of customization to more easily fool recipients, researchers said.
A multi-national policing operation has led to the arrest of dozens of suspects including the alleged boss of an organized crime operation that targeted elderly victims with scam phone calls, according to Europol.