The team of researchers at VpnMentor discovered 377,000 files stored in the misconfigured 32 GB AWS S3 bucket. The exposed data included private photos of users and also bot scripts.

Dnsmasq is a widely used open-source Domain Name System (DNS) forwarding application commonly installed on routers, operating systems, access points, and other networking equipment.

Malwarebytes on Tuesday said it was breached by the same group who broke into SolarWinds to access some of its internal emails, making it the fourth major cybersecurity vendor to be targeted.

A new Russian cybercrime outfit dubbed Classiscam has been found to have enabled theft of millions of dollars through a new scam-as-a-service operation.

Attackers often target DNS via attacks such as tunneling, phishing, hijacking, cache poisoning, and DDoS, however, other attack methods have also been observed.

Since Active Directory is used as a source from which to sync to other identity stores, any tampering with Active Directory can cause a devastating ripple effect across your identity infrastructure.

Using the ongoing adoption of the REAL ID Act of 2005 in an attempt to make the scam sound legitimate, the attackers have used three specific text phishing messages, the New York State DMV said.

FireEye released a free tool on GitHub named Azure AD Investigator that can help companies determine if the SolarWinds hackers (aka UNC2452) used any of their attack techniques inside their networks.

The theft occurred after hackers infiltrated the Wentworth IT system and sent out a post to members, seemingly demanding a payment in bitcoins, a cyber currency, to “recover files”.

The company wrote to customers mid-last week to inform them of a “breach of security resulting in the unauthorised access to data from our user database,” according to the email seen by The Register.