Darknet Carding Kingpin Pleads Guilty: Sold Financial Info of Tens of Thousands
May 18, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / Payment Security
A U.S. national has pleaded guilty in a Missouri court to operating a darknet carding site...
Apple Blocked Over $2 Billion in Fraudulent Transactions
Apple published a report claiming that they prevented around $2 billion of potentially fraudulent transactions in 2022 and rejected around 1.7 million app submissions...
Critical Flaws in Cisco Small Business Switches Could Allow Remote Attacks
May 18, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability
Cisco has released updates to address a set of nine security flaws in its Small Business Series...
Facebook & Instagram Begun Rolling Out Paid Blue Tick
Meta is introducing Meta Verified on Facebook and Instagram. The popular social networking platform will now permit anyone who agrees to pay the price to...
State-Sponsored Sidewinder Hacker Group’s Covert Attack Infrastructure Uncovered
May 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Threat Intel
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed previously undocumented attack infrastructure used by the prolific state-sponsored group SideWinder to...
New RA Hacker Group Attack Organizations in the U.S.
The ‘RA Group’ is a recently emerged ransomware organization that is actively attacking the following companies in the United States and South Korea:-Pharmaceutical companiesInsurance...
Threat Group UNC3944 Abusing Azure Serial Console for Total VM Takeover
May 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananSIM Swapping / Server Security
A financially motivated cyber actor has been observed abusing Microsoft Azure Serial Console on virtual machines...
Hackers Modified Cobalt Strike Capabilities to Attack macOS Users
Geacon, a Cobalt Strike implementation written in Golang, is likely to attract the attention of threat actors looking for vulnerable macOS devices.Threat actors have...
Identifying a Patch Management Solution: Overview of Key Criteria
Software is rarely a one-and-done proposition.
In fact, any application available today will likely need to be updated – or patched – to fix...
OilAlpha: Emerging Houthi-linked Cyber Threat Targets Arabian Android Users
May 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Mobile Security
A hacking group dubbed OilAlpha with suspected ties to Yemen's Houthi movement has been linked to...