Infosecurity News

  1. Trojan Steals Facebook Details from Over 300K Victims

    "Schoolyard Bully" has been active since 2018

  2. Hackers Target Colombia's Healthcare System With Ransomware

    The attack disrupted IT operations, websites and scheduling of medical appointments

  3. Spyware Vendor Variston Exploited N-Days in Chrome, Firefox, Windows

    The claims come from Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which published an advisory about the threat

  4. WhatsApp Files on Dark Web Show Millions of Records For Sale

    The list went on sale for four days and is now being distributed for free among dark web users

  5. UK Extends NIS Regulations to IT Managed Service Providers

    The UK strengthens its regulations on Network and Information Systems (NIS) to better prevent software supply chain attacks

  6. Eight Charged with $30m Unemployment Benefits Fraud

    Defendants allegedly used insider to obtain personal information

  7. Researchers Accidentally Crash Cryptomining Botnet

    Akamai reveals how a simple syntax error stopped it sending commands

  8. LastPass Reveals Another Customer Data Breach

    Incident is second this year, although company says passwords are safe

  9. Majority of US Defense Contractors Not Meeting Basic Cybersecurity Requirements

    87% of DoD contractors are failing to meet the basic level of compliance ahead of CMMC coming into force next year

  10. Australian Parliament Passes Privacy Penalty Bill

    The higher penalties and extended powers will become effective after the bill receives royal assent

  11. China-Based Hackers Target Southeast Asia With USB-Based Malware

    UNC4191 operations have affected several entities in Southeast Asia but also in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific Japan

  12. Zero-Day Flaw Discovered in Quarkus Java Framework

    The flaw has a CVSS v3 base score rating of 9.8 and can be found in the Dev UI Config Editor

  13. Businesses Increasing Cyber Spend Without Clear Strategy, Fastly Finds

    As businesses aim to spend more on cybersecurity, Fastly warns that many do so without a clear strategy

  14. Let's Encrypt Issues Three Billionth Certificate

    Free certificate authority serves over 300 million websites

  15. Most Small Biz IaaS Users Seeing Surge in Attacks

    A further 67% were hit by ransomware in past year

  16. New "Icefall" Bugs Include Critical DoS Flaw

    Millions of OT devices may be affected

  17. Oracle Fusion Middleware Vulnerability Actively Exploited in the Wild: CISA

    The bug allows unauthenticated attackers with network access to compromise Oracle Access Manager

  18. PII May Have Been Stolen in Virginia County Ransomware Attack

    A W-2 form was reportedly published on a dark web forum with stolen, sensitive data

  19. US Census Bureau Head Fends Off Critics of 'Differential Privacy' Tool

    Santos defended differential privacy against prominent researchers

  20. Police Shutter 13,000 Sites in Piracy Crackdown

    Fourteen detained as part of Europol operation

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