Cyber Security

Jun 15, 2024NewsroomArtificial Intelligence / Privacy Meta on Friday said it’s delaying its efforts to train the company’s large language models (LLMs) using public content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram in the European Union following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The company expressed disappointment at having to put

Jun 15, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Malware A suspected Pakistan-based threat actor has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting Indian government entities in 2024. Cybersecurity company Volexity is tracking the activity under the moniker UTA0137, noting the adversary’s exclusive use of a malware called DISGOMOJI that’s written in Golang and is designed to infect

Jun 15, 2024Newsroom Pakistan has become the latest target of a threat actor called the Smishing Triad, marking the first expansion of its footprint beyond the E.U., Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., and the U.S. “The group’s latest tactic involves sending malicious messages on behalf of Pakistan Post to customers of mobile carriers via iMessage and

Jun 14, 2024The Hacker News Data is growing faster than ever. Remember when petabytes (that’s 1,000,000 gigabytes!) were only for tech giants? Well, that’s so last decade! Today, businesses of all sizes are swimming in petabytes. But this isn’t just about storage anymore. This data is ALIVE—it’s constantly accessed, analyzed, shared, and even used to

Jun 14, 2024NewsroomPrivacy / Ad Tracking Google’s plans to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser with Privacy Sandbox has run into fresh trouble after Austrian privacy non-profit noyb (none of your business) said the feature can still be used to track users. “While the so-called ‘Privacy Sandbox’ is advertised as an improvement

Jun 14, 2024The Hacker NewsCybersecurity / Regulatory Compliance As cyber threats loom large and data breaches continue to pose increasingly significant risks. Organizations and industries that handle sensitive information and valuable assets make prime targets for cybercriminals seeking financial gain or strategic advantage. Which is why many highly regulated sectors, from finance to utilities, are

Jun 13, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Mobile Security The threat actor known as Arid Viper has been attributed to a mobile espionage campaign that leverages trojanized Android apps to deliver a spyware strain dubbed AridSpy. “The malware is distributed through dedicated websites impersonating various messaging apps, a job opportunity app, and a Palestinian Civil Registry app,”

Jun 13, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Software Security The security risks posed by the Pickle format have once again come to the fore with the discovery of a new “hybrid machine learning (ML) model exploitation technique” dubbed Sleepy Pickle. The attack method, per Trail of Bits, weaponizes the ubiquitous format used to package and distribute machine learning

Jun 13, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cyber Attack Threat actors with ties to Pakistan have been linked to a long-running malware campaign dubbed Operation Celestial Force since at least 2018. The activity, still ongoing, entails the use of an Android malware called GravityRAT and a Windows-based malware loader codenamed HeavyLift, according to Cisco Talos, which are

Last week, the notorious hacker gang, ShinyHunters, sent shockwaves across the globe by allegedly plundering 1.3 terabytes of data from 560 million Ticketmaster users. This colossal breach, with a price tag of $500,000, could expose the personal information of a massive swath of the live event company’s clientele, igniting a firestorm of concern and outrage.

Jun 12, 2024NewsroomKubernetes / Endpoint Security Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an ongoing cryptojacking campaign targeting misconfigured Kubernetes clusters to mine Dero cryptocurrency. Cloud security firm Wiz, which shed light on the activity, said it’s an updated variant of a financially motivated operation that was first documented by CrowdStrike in March 2023. “In this incident,

Jun 12, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing phishing campaign that leverages recruiting- and job-themed lures to deliver a Windows-based backdoor named WARMCOOKIE. “WARMCOOKIE appears to be an initial backdoor tool used to scout out victim networks and deploy additional payloads,” Elastic Security Labs researcher Daniel Stepanic said in

Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a Chinese actor codenamed SecShow that has been observed conducting Domain Name System (DNS) on a global scale since at least June 2023. The adversary, according to Infoblox security researchers Dr. Renée Burton and Dave Mitchell, operates from the China Education and Research Network (CERNET), a project funded

Jun 11, 2024The Hacker NewsEndpoint Security / Incident Response Managed service providers (MSPs) are on the front lines of soaring demand for cybersecurity services as cyberattacks increase in volume and sophistication. Cynet has emerged as the security vendor of choice for MSPs to capitalize on existing relationships with SMB clients and profitably expand their client

Apple has announced the launch of a “groundbreaking cloud intelligence system” called Private Cloud Compute (PCC) that’s designed for processing artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in a privacy-preserving manner in the cloud. The tech giant described PCC as the “most advanced security architecture ever deployed for cloud AI compute at scale.” PCC coincides with the arrival

Jun 10, 2024The Hacker NewsCybersecurity / Exposure Management Staying Sharp: Cybersecurity CPEs Explained Perhaps even more so than in other professional domains, cybersecurity professionals constantly face new threats. To ensure you stay on top of your game, many certification programs require earning Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits. CPEs are essentially units of measurement used to

Jun 10, 2024NewsroomPhishing Attack / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a phishing attack distributing the More_eggs malware by masquerading it as a resume, a technique originally detected more than two years ago. The attack, which was unsuccessful, targeted an unnamed company in the industrial services industry in May 2024, Canadian cybersecurity firm eSentire disclosed last

Jun 10, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a threat actor known as Sticky Werewolf that has been linked to cyber attacks targeting entities in Russia and Belarus. The phishing attacks were aimed at a pharmaceutical company, a Russian research institute dealing with microbiology and vaccine development, and the aviation sector,