Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras
Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed.
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Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed.
A developer appears to have divulged credentials to a police database on a popular developer forum, leading to a breach and subsequent bid to sell 23 terabytes of personal data on the dark web.
Evidence suggests that a just-discovered APT has been active since 2013.
A state-sponsored threat actor designed a house-of-cards style infection chain to exfiltrate massive troves of highly sensitive data.
Ghostwriter is one of 3 campaigns using war-themed attacks, with cyber-fire coming in from government-backed actors in China, Iran, North Korea & Russia.
Mustang Panda's already sophisticated cyberespionage campaign has matured even further with the introduction of a brand-new PlugX RAT variant.
The China-affiliated state-sponsored threat actor used Log4j and zero-day bugs in the USAHerds animal-tracking software to hack into multiple government networks.
Also on the rise: DDoS attacks against Ukrainian sites and phishing activity capitalizing on the conflict, with China's Mustang Panda targeting Europe.
Via node-hopping, the espionage tool can reach computers that aren't even connected to the internet.
Attackers infiltrated the media giant’s network using BEC, while Microsoft moved to stop such attacks by blocking VBA macros in 5 Windows apps. Included: more ways to help stop BEC.