On the day of discovery, a Saturday, WebsitePlanet informed the Cook County CTO about the exposure. Early the following Monday, the database was secured and public access restricted.
Analyzed in a report published last week by security firm Zscaler, the company said this new threat is a variant of an older botnet named SystemdMiner, first seen in early 2019.
According to independent cybersecurity researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia, thousands of such explicit and illegal content is being circulated via Google Drive, including files linking to malware.
Networking device maker SonicWall has disclosed that it is investigating a security breach of its internal network after detecting what it described as a “coordinated attack.”
Netscout researchers have identified more than 14,000 existing servers that can be abused by ‘the general attack population’ to flood organizations’ networks with traffic.
Although the US and the United Nations have levied sanctions meant to prevent the illegal financing of nuclear weapons, North Korea is proving to be adept at sidestepping them — and is also remarkably proficient at cybercrime.
The hackers behind the ransomware attack on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) have published thousands of stolen files after the organisation refused to pay the ransom.
DreamBus presents a serious threat because of the many components it uses to spread via the internet and the wormlike behavior that enables it to move laterally once inside a targeted system, ThreatLabz says.
A home security technician admitted that he secretly accessed the cameras of more than 200 customers, particularly attractive women, to spy on while they undressed, slept, or had sex.
The CursedGrabber malware has infiltrated the open-source software code repository. Three malicious software packages have been published to npm, a code repository for JavaScript developers to share and reuse code blocks.