[ad_1] Dec 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Hacking News A suspected China-nexus cyber espionage group has been attributed to an attacks targeting large business-to-business IT service providers in Southern Europe as part of a campaign codenamed Operation Digital Eye. The intrusions took place from late June to mid-July 2024, cybersecurity companies SentinelOne SentinelLabs and Tinexta…
[ad_1] Dec 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Vishing Belgian and Dutch authorities have arrested eight suspects in connection with a “phone phishing” gang that primarily operated out of the Netherlands with an aim to steal victims’ financial data and funds. As part of the international operation, law enforcement agencies carried out 17 searches in different locations…
[ad_1] Dec 10, 2024The Hacker NewsVulnerability / Perimeter Security In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, safeguarding your organization against cyberattacks is more critical than ever. Traditional penetration testing (pentesting), while effective, often falls short due to its high costs, resource requirements, and infrequent implementation. Automated internal and external network pentesting is a game-changing solution, empowering…
[ad_1] Dec 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Ivanti has released security updates to address multiple critical flaws in its Cloud Services Application (CSA) and Connect Secure products that could lead to privilege escalation and code execution. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2024-11639 (CVSS score: 10.0) – An authentication bypass vulnerability in…
[ad_1] The U.S. government on Tuesday unsealed charges against a Chinese national for allegedly breaking into thousands of Sophos firewall devices globally in 2020. Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao), who is said to have worked at Sichuan Silence Information Technology Company, Limited, has been charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and conspiracy to…
[ad_1] Dec 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Cyber Attack A suspected China-based threat actor has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting high-profile organizations in Southeast Asia since at least October 2023. The espionage campaign targeted organizations in various sectors spanning government ministries in two different countries, an air traffic control organization, a…
[ad_1] Dec 11, 2024The Hacker NewsSaaS Security / Endpoint Security Regain control of SaaS sprawl with Day One discovery of all SaaS and GenAI accounts along with workflows to help you mitigate security risks, curb rogue app usage, and manage SaaS spend. In today’s highly distributed workplace, every employee has the ability to act as…
[ad_1] Dec 14, 2024Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Ad Fraud Germany’s Federal Office of Information Security (BSI) has announced that it has disrupted a malware operation called BADBOX that came preloaded on at least 30,000 internet-connected devices sold across the country. In a statement published earlier this week, authorities said they severed the communications between the devices…
[ad_1] Dec 14, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Threat Thai government officials have emerged as the target of a new campaign that leverages a technique called DLL side-loading to deliver a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed Yokai. “The target of the threat actors were Thailand officials based on the nature of the lures,” Nikhil Hegde, senior engineer…
[ad_1] Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel surveillance program that’s suspected to be used by Chinese police departments as a lawful intercept tool to gather a wide range of information from mobile devices. The Android tool, codenamed EagleMsgSpy by Lookout, has been operational since at least 2017, with artifacts uploaded to the VirusTotal malware scanning…
