FBI Creates Fake Cryptocurrency to Expose Widespread Crypto Market Manipulation Oct 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cybercrime The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced arrests and charges against several individuals and entities in connection with allegedly manipulating digital asset markets Read more…
GitHub, Telegram Bots, and QR Codes Abused in New Wave of Phishing Attacks A new tax-themed malware campaign targeting insurance and finance sectors has been observed leveraging GitHub links in phishing email messages as a way to bypass security measures Read more…
FBI created a crypto token so it could watch it being abused • The Register The FBI created its own cryptocurrency so it could watch suspected fraudsters use it – an idea that worked so well it produced arrests in Read more…
Meet the team breaking into top-secret HQ’s Getty Images Red Teams try to break into high security facilities A crack team assembles and breaks into a top secret military base or corporate headquarters – you’ve probably seen it in a Read more…
How Hybrid Password Attacks Work and How to Defend Against Them Threat actors constantly change tactics to bypass cybersecurity measures, developing innovative methods to steal user credentials. Hybrid password attacks merge multiple cracking techniques to amplify their effectiveness. These combined Read more…
CISA Warns of Threat Actors Exploiting F5 BIG-IP Cookies for Network Reconnaissance Oct 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that it has observed threat actors leveraging unencrypted persistent cookies managed Read more…
New Critical GitLab Vulnerability Could Allow Arbitrary CI/CD Pipeline Execution Oct 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Vulnerability GitLab has released security updates for Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) to address eight security flaws, including a critical bug that could Read more…
Bohemia and Cannabia Dark Web Markets Taken Down After Joint Police Operation Oct 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Dark Web The Dutch police have announced the takedown of Bohemia and Cannabia, which has been described as the world’s largest and longest-running Read more…
CISA demands govt patches exploited Fortinet, Ivanti bugs • The Register The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says vulnerabilities in Fortinet and Ivanti products are now being exploited, earning them places in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Read more…
Internet Archive leaks user info and succumbs to DDoS • The Register The Internet Archive had a bad day on the infosec front, after being DDoSed and exposing user data. On Wednesday afternoon US time the outfit’s digital library Brewster Read more…