Infosecurity News

  1. IoT Vulnerability Disclosures Up 57% in Six Months, Claroty Reveals

    The research also found that vendor self-disclosures increased by 69%

  2. Facebook Bug Causes Users’ Feeds to Be Spammed

    Users’ feeds were spammed with posts from strangers on the pages of celebrities

  3. Ransomware Surges to 1.2 Million Attacks Per Month

    French hospital is the latest to be hit

  4. EU Outlines Critical Cyber Response to Ukraine War

    Agencies team up to police borders and mitigate Russian cyber-threats

  5. US Healthcare Sector Breaches 342m+ Records Since 2009

    Biggest year so far was 2020

  6. NCSC Shares Guidance to Help Secure Large Construction Projects

    The guide includes input from firms with experience in joint ventures, including major infrastructure contracts such as HS2 and Crossrail

  7. Ex-Security Chief Accuses Twitter of Cybersecurity Negligence

    Peiter Zatko admitted that he “reasonably feared Twitter could suffer an Equifax-level hack”

  8. CISA Adds Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS Vulnerability to Catalog

    The flaw would allow a network-based unauthenticated threat actor to perform DoS attacks

  9. Air-Gap Attack Exploits Gyroscope Ultrasonic Covert Channel to Leak Data

    Gairoscope is a covert ultrasonic channel that does not require a microphone on the receiving side

  10. Counterfeit Android Devices Revealed to Contain Backdoor Designed to Hack WhatsApp

    At least four different smartphones affected: ‘P48pro’, ‘radmi note 8’, ‘Note30u’ and ‘Mate40’

  11. Media Firms Twice as Vulnerable as Cross-Sector Average

    Nearly a third have internet-facing bugs, says BlueVoyant

  12. Configuration Errors to Blame for 80% of Ransomware

    Microsoft urges better attack surface management

  13. FBI: Beware Residential IPs Hiding Credential Stuffing

    Feds warn of various tactics hackers use to hijack accounts

  14. CEO of Blacklisted Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Steps Down

    The resignation of CEO Shalev Hulio will see COO Yaron Shohat take the helm

  15. Escanor RAT Malware Deployed Via Microsoft Office and PDF Documents

    The malware was first released for sale on January 26, 2022 as an HVNC implant, but later evolved

  16. Threat Actor Deploys Raven Storm Tool to Perform DDoS Attacks

    The malware is reportedly capable of server takedown, Wi-Fi attacks and application layer attacks

  17. DDoS Protection Weaponized to Deliver RATs

    New campaign disguised as fake Cloudflare pop-up

  18. Hackers Target ATM Maker for Bitcoins

    General Bytes confirms serious attack last week

  19. Car Dealership Hit by Major Ransomware Attack

    Holdcroft Motor Group says most systems back online now

  20. China-backed APT41 Group Hacked at Least 13 Victims in 2021

    The majority of the attacks spotted relied primarily on SQL injections on targeted domains

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