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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned today of ongoing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks after U.S. organizations across multiple industry sectors were hit. [...]
MITRE has released its annual list of the Top 25 "most dangerous software weaknesses" for the year 2023
Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia's top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. Experts say Kislitsin's prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States.
Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say It's been months since "spy balloon" fever gripped the United States, but the headline-grabbing flying object – alleged to have been deployed by China – is back in the news. Preliminary findings from the US inspection of its wreckage show a whole bunch of commercially available hardware made in the States.…
A ransomware threat called 8Base that has been operating under the radar for over a year has been attributed to a "massive spike in activity" in May and June 2023
Just as America's Supremes set a high bar for cyberstalking It's bad enough there's some Android stalkerware out there with the not-at-all-creepy moniker LetMeSpy. Now someone's got hold of the information the app collects – such as victims' text messages and call logs – as well as the email addresses of those who sought out the software, and leaked it all.…
Joseph James "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison. That may seem like harsh punishment for a brief and very public cyber joy ride. But O'Connor also pleaded guilty in a separate investigation involving a years-long spree of cyberstalking and cryptocurrency theft enabled by "SIM swapping," a crime wherein fraudsters trick a mobile provider into diverting a customer's phone calls and text messages to a device they control.
The attack exposed personal information from pilot applicants, prompting both airlines to ditch their third-party provider and move services internally.
Censys researchers have discovered hundreds of Internet-exposed devices on the networks of U.S. federal agencies that have to be secured according to a recently issued CISA Binding Operational Directive. [...]
American Airlines reported 5745 pilots and applicants affected, Southwest Airlines reported 3009
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing issue preventing some customers from accessing their Exchange Online mailbox through Outlook on the web. [...]
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing issue preventing some customers from accessing their Exchange Online mailbox through Outlook on the web. [...]
A new Android malware campaign has been observed pushing the Anatsa banking trojan to target banking customers in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Austria, and Switzerland since the start of March 2023
A new mobile malware campaign since March 2023 pushes the Android banking trojan 'Anatsa' to online banking customers in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. [...]
Time to start practicing identity protection A vendor that operates a pilot recruitment platform used by maor airlines exposed the personal files of more than 8,000 pilot and cadet applicants at American Airlines and Southwest Airlines.…
A 33-year-old man from Serbia has been extradited from Austria to the United States to face charges of running a criminal darknet narcotics marketplace called "Monopoly Market." [...]