The long-running botnet known as MyKings is still in business and has raked in at least $24.7 million by using its network of compromised computers to mine for cryptocurrencies.
Trustwave, a Chicago-based cybersecurity and managed security services provider owned by Singaporean telecommunications company Singtel Group Enterprise, on Friday announced the release of the free decryptor, available for download from GitHub.
The company came forward and confirmed the attack in a Twitter thread, writing that it was “aware of an issue in which some member accounts were accessed and/or charged without their authorization.”
Cybersecurity company Dragos worked with CISA, the FBI, the NSA and the EPA to outline cyberthreats targeting the information and operational technology underpinning the networks, systems and devices of US water and wastewater facilities.
A large-scale unauthenticated scraping of publicly available and non-secured endpoints from older versions of Prometheus event monitoring and alerting solution could be leveraged to inadvertently leak sensitive information.
More than a dozen prominent cybersecurity experts raised concerns on plans by Apple and the EU to monitor people’s phones for illicit material, calling the efforts ineffective and dangerous strategies that would embolden government surveillance.
The University of Sunderland in the United Kingdom has announced extensive operational issues that have taken most of its IT systems down, attributing the problem to a cyber-attack.
Researchers at Imperva uncovered a new ad injection campaign based on an adblocker named AllBlock. The AllBlock extension was available at the time of writing for Chrome and Opera in the respective web stores.
Multiple flaws have been disclosed in softphone software from Linphone and MicroSIP that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote adversary to crash the client and even extract sensitive information by simply making a malicious call.
Israel’s National Cyber Directorate (INCD) is urging organizations across the country to bolster their cyber defenses following a disruptive ransomware attack against a hospital in Israel’s northwest.