Why 'Never Expire' Passwords Can Be a Risky Decision - The …
Sep 23, 2024 · Password resets can be frustrating for end users. Nobody likes being interrupted by the 'time to change your password' notification – and they like it even less when the new passwords they create are rejected by their organization's password policy. IT teams share the pain, with resetting ...
Cloudflare Thwarts Largest-Ever 3.8 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting …
Oct 4, 2024 · Cloudflare has disclosed that it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted 65 seconds. The web infrastructure and security company said it fended off "over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks throughout ...
Chinese Hackers Infiltrate U.S. Internet Providers in Cyber …
Sep 26, 2024 · Nation-state threat actors backed by Beijing broke into a "handful" of U.S. internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign orchestrated to glean sensitive information, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.. The activity has been attributed to a threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Salt Typhoon, which is also known as FamousSparrow …
SocGholish Malware Exploits BOINC Project for Covert Cyberattacks
Jul 22, 2024 · SocGholish malware campaign exploits BOINC project, infecting thousands of computers. AsyncRAT and V8 JavaScript used to evade detection in sophistica
Hackers Could Have Remotely Controlled Kia Cars Using Only …
Sep 26, 2024 · Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of now patched vulnerabilities in Kia vehicles that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed remote control over key functions simply by using only a license plate. "These attacks could be executed remotely on any hardware-equipped vehicle in ...
Hacktivist Group Twelve Targets Russian Entities with Destructive …
Sep 21, 2024 · Kaspersky said Twelve shares infrastructural and tactical overlaps with a ransomware group called DARKSTAR (aka COMET or Shadow), raising the possibility that the two intrusion sets are likely related to one another or part of the same activity cluster. "At the same time, whereas Twelve's actions are clearly hacktivist in nature, DARKSTAR sticks to the …
Microsoft Identifies Storm-0501 as Major Threat in Hybrid Cloud ...
Sep 27, 2024 · The threat actor known as Storm-0501 has targeted government, manufacturing, transportation, and law enforcement sectors in the U.S. to stage ransomware attacks. The multi-stage attack campaign is designed to compromise hybrid cloud environments and perform lateral movement from on-premises to cloud ...
Patch Issued for Critical VMware vCenter Flaw Allowing Remote …
Sep 18, 2024 · The shortcoming is similar to two other remote code execution flaws, CVE-2024-37079 and CVE-2024-37080 (CVSS scores: 9.8), that VMware resolved in vCenter Server in June 2024. Also addressed by VMware is a privilege escalation flaw in the vCenter Server (CVE-2024-38813, CVSS score: 7.5) that could enable a malicious actor with network access to the …
Microsoft Issues Security Update Fixing 118 Flaws, Two Actively ...
Oct 9, 2024 · Microsoft has released security updates to fix a total of 118 vulnerabilities across its software portfolio, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 118 flaws, three are rated Critical, 113 are rated Important, and two are rated Moderate in severity. The Patch Tuesday ...
LockBit Ransomware and Evil Corp Members Arrested and …
Oct 3, 2024 · The group, responsible for the development and distribution of the Dridex (aka Bugat) malware, has been previously observed deploying LockBit and other ransomware strains in 2022 in order to get around sanctions imposed against the group in December 2019, including key members Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev.. Ryzhenkov has been described by the …