The US cybersecurity authority is urging everyone to patch a number of software flaws, including some older ones in Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in and Adobe Flash Player.
The attack has caused severe operational disruption of government services, as thousands of workstations have allegedly been locked by the threat actor. The cyberattack also disrupted COVID-19 tests processing and contact tracing.
Details have emerged about a recently patched critical remote code execution vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine used in Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers.
The flaw resides in Guzzle’s cookie middleware, which is disabled by default, “so most library consumers will not be affected by this issue”, reads a GitHub security advisory published by a Guzzle maintainer on Wednesday (May 25).
In a statement published to social media networks on Thursday afternoon, officials said that after “several days of investigation” it has become clear that the incident that first began on Sunday is a cyberattack.
An investigation of the infamous “Is That You?” video scam has led Cybernews researchers to a cybercriminal stronghold, from which threat actors have been infecting the social media giant with thousands of malicious links every day.
GhostTouch, as it’s called, “uses electromagnetic interference (EMI) to inject fake touch points into a touchscreen without the need to physically touch it,” a group of academics from Zhejiang University and Technical University of Darmstadt said.
The FBI issued an alert on Thursday to inform the higher education sector about the exposure of credentials that can allow threat actors to access user accounts or an organization’s network.
Victims get a call from hackers to call on numbers starting with ’67’ or ‘405’. Once they make the call, they are logged out of their WhatsApp accounts and hackers gain complete control of their accounts within seconds.
A hacker has obtained a database that includes the full name, email addresses, corporate ID numbers, and phone numbers of hundreds of Verizon employees. It’s unclear if all the data is accurate or up to date.