In early September 2021, Avast threat researcher David Álvarez found a malware sample with a suspicious file extension and a report submitted by the National Games IT team to VirusTotal on an attack against a server associated with the Games.
The Russia-linked Gamaredon hacking group attempted to compromise an unnamed Western government entity operating in Ukraine last month amidst ongoing geopolitical tensions between the two countries.
The macOS malware, dubbed UpdateAgent, was found propagating for almost 14 months. It started circulating around November or December 2020 as a basic infostealer.
In 2021, Mandiant Threat Intelligence observed that over 1,300 organizations in the critical and industrial sectors were impacted by ransomware attacks.
AT&T experts unearthed the new BotenaGo botnet, which leaked on GitHub last year. It could target 33 exploits affecting nearly 2 million routers and IoT devices. Experts also discovered several hacking tools—from several sources—in the same GitHub repository. The leak of such ready-to-use source code of BotenaGo could result in the further explosion of new malware […]
The college’s main database and credit card payment systems were not involved, and no data from them was accessed by unauthorized users, said the board, which oversees the state’s community colleges.
The attack took place earlier today and impacted Wormhole Portal, a web-based application—also known as a blockchain “bridge”—that allows users to convert one form of cryptocurrency into another.
The Department is offering a reward for information on two Iranian hackers who allegedly participated in state-sponsored cyber operations designed to interfere with the 2020 presidential election.
The vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2022-23119 and CVE-2022-23120, and they impact Deep Security and Cloud One workload security solutions, specifically the Linux agent component.
In a new survey, 80% of respondents admitted that their organization had experienced a ransomware attack within the past year, and nearly half said the incident had impacted their ICS/OT environment.