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2024-03-30 Post a Comment

Australian Government Doubles Down On Cybersecurity in Wake of Major Attacks

John Leyden, Contributing Writer Government proposes more modern and comprehensive cybersecurity regulations for businesses, government, and critical infrastructures providers Down Under. The Australian government is carving out plans to revamp cybersecurity laws and regulations in the wake of a series of damaging high-profile data breaches that rocked the country. Government officials recently released what it called a consultation paper that outlined specific proposals and solicited input from the private sector […]

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2024-02-10 Post a Comment

Government hackers targeted iPhone owners with zero-days, Google says

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai@lorenzofb Government hackers last year exploited three unknown vulnerabilities in Appleâ€™s iPhone operating system to target victims with spyware developed by a European startup, according to Google. On Tuesday, Googleâ€™s Threat Analysis Group, the companyâ€™s team that investigates nation-backed hacking,Â published a reportÂ analyzing several government campaigns conducted with hacking tools developed by several spyware and exploit sellers, including Barcelona-based startup Variston. In one of the campaigns, according to Google, government […]

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2024-02-10 Post a Comment

Hackers steal data of 2 million in SQL injection, XSS attacks

By Bill Toulas A threat group named ‘ResumeLooters’ has stolen the personal data of over two million job seekers after compromising 65 legitimate job listing and retail sites using SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The attackers mainly focus on the APAC region, targeting sites in Australia, Taiwan, China, Thailand, India, and Vietnam to steal job seeker’s names, email addresses, phone numbers, employment history, education, and other relevant information. […]

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2024-02-02 Post a Comment

Hackers target WordPress database plugin active on 1 million sites

By Bill Toulas Hackers target WordPress database plugin active on 1 million sites Malicious activity targeting a critical severity flaw in the â€˜Better Search Replaceâ€™ WordPress plugin has been detected, with researchers observing thousands of attempts in the past 24 hours. Better Search Replace is a WordPress plugin with more than one million installations that helps with search and replace operations in databases when moving websites to new domains or […]

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2024-01-24 Post a Comment

VexTrio: The Uber of Cybercrime – Brokering Malware for 60+ Affiliates

The threat actors behind ClearFake, SocGholish, and dozens of other actors have established partnerships with another entity known asÂ VexTrioÂ 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 companyÂ said, describing VexTrio as the “single largest malicious traffic broker described in security literature.” VexTrio, which is believed to be […]