A trove of documents, images, and videos from the offices of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi posted online Monday appear to be authentic, cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter told CyberScoop on Wednesday.
The misconfiguration led to the exposure of approximately 250,000 files. 42,000 of them contained the sensitive data of job seekers, namely: Full names, Dates of birth, Occupation history, Home addresses, Phone numbers, and Email addresses.
The Cyber Incident Reporting Council will issue a report to Congress “in the next month or two” with recommendations on ways to achieve harmony across a complex network of federal cyber mandates.
A recently discovered Chinese phishing gang has expanded its campaigns to the Middle East with new scams designed to harvest personal and payment data from victims, according to Group-IB.
Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point, which dubbed the Go-based malware TinyNote, said it functions as a first-stage payload capable of “basic machine enumeration and command execution via PowerShell or Goroutines.”
Horabot enables the threat actor to control the victim’s Outlook mailbox, exfiltrate contacts’ email addresses, and send phishing emails with malicious HTML attachments to all addresses in the victim’s mailbox.
A number of Discord communities focused on cryptocurrency have been hacked this past month after their administrators were tricked into running malicious Javascript code disguised as a Web browser bookmark.
Last week, the organization published a notice informing that ransomware actors maintained access to its systems between March 28 and April 17, 2023, when the breach was discovered.
A catastrophic “once-in-200-years” cyber event could cause $33bn in losses for the cyber-insurance sector, according to the new Through the Looking Glass report from Guy Carpenter.
The latest victim of a protocol hack is Jimbos Protocol, a decentralized liquidity platform operating on the Arbitrum system. The attack resulted in a loss of 4,000 Ether (ETH), valued at around $7.5 million during the incident.