SCHARON HARDING “Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription.” Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed the company’s controversial practice of bricking printers when users load them with third-party ink. Speaking to CNBC Television, he said, “We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges. Through the […]
Claire Reid A hacker has revealed the common security mistakes that loads of us make, leaving us vulnerable to criminals. Kieran Burge, is a security consultant at Prism Infosec, where he tests companies cybersecurity setups to check for any weaknesses. Speaking to the Daily Mail, he shared five mistakes that you may […]
The threat actors behind ClearFake, SocGholish, and dozens of other actors have established partnerships with another entity known as VexTrio as part of a massive “criminal affiliate program,” new findings from Infoblox reveal. The latest development demonstrates the “breadth of their activities and depth of their connections within the cybercrime industry,” the […]
SERGEY PUZAN A month ago, we discovered some cracked apps circulating on pirating websites and infected with a Trojan proxy. The malicious actors repackaged pre-cracked applications as PKG files with an embedded Trojan proxy and a post-install script initiating the infection. We recently caught sight of a new, hitherto unknown, macOS malware […]
Tara Seals, Managing Editor, News, Dark Reading Based on fresh infection routines the APT is testing, it’s looking to harvest threat intelligence in order to improve operational security and stealth. ScarCruft, the North Korea-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group, is gearing up for targeted attacks on cybersecurity researchers and other […]
ABDULLAH JANUARY 22, 2024 We will outline the process of configuring a VPN to enhance your online privacy. VPNs serve as tools to consistently safeguard your privacy during internet browsing. However, in utilizing them, it’s crucial to consider specific nuances that can further enhance your privacy. Let’s concentrate on the fundamental […]
Computer science researchers have developed a new way to identify security weaknesses that leave people vulnerable to account takeover attacks, where an attacker gains unauthorized access to online accounts. Most mobiles are now home to a complex ecosystem of interconnected operating software and apps, and as the connections between […]
As we enter 2024, Gcore has released its latest Gcore Radar report, a twice-annual publication in which the company releases internal analytics to track DDoS attacks. Gcore’s broad, internationally distributed network of scrubbing centers allows them to follow attack trends over time. Read on to learn about DDoS attack trends […]
Story by Isabel van Brugen • AUkrainian hacking group linked to the country’s main spy agency has stolen construction plans for more than 500 Russian military sites, Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, the GUR, said Friday. The group, dubbed “Blackjack”, which has previously been linked to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), hacked into a Russian […]
By Bill Toulas The Calvià City Council in Majorca announced it was targeted by a ransomware attack on Saturday, which impacted municipal services. Calvià is a historic town on the Spanish island of Majorca with a population of 50,000 and is one of Majorca’s major tourism hotspots, estimated to receive […]
A malicious package uploaded to the npm registry has been found deploying a sophisticated remote access trojan on compromised Windows machines. The package, named “oscompatible,” was published on January 9, 2024, attracting a total of 380 downloads before it was taken down. oscompatible included a “few strange binaries,” according to software supply chain security […]
By Sergiu Gatlan VMware has confirmed that a critical vCenter Server remote code execution vulnerability patched in October is now under active exploitation. vCenter Server is a management platform for VMware vSphere environments that helps administrators manage ESX and ESXi servers and virtual machines (VMs). “VMware has confirmed that exploitation of CVE-2023-34048 has occurred […]
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