An Italian hacker makes the grade and ends up in choppy waters, and hear true stories of title deed transfer scams. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault. Plus – don’t miss our featured interview with Avery Pennarun of Tailscale. – Read...
CloudSEK uncovers a Zendesk vulnerability allowing cybercriminals to exploit subdomains for phishing and investment scams. Learn about the… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
The top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee and a number of cyber professionals on Wednesday lamented the Trump administration’s decision to purge a cyber incident investigation board of its membership. But the move had some supporters, including the chairman of that same committee. Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman issued a memorandum Monday that strips all...
A U.S. appeals court has vacated the initial sentence given to Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, who pleaded guilty in 2023 for charges related to his work as founder of the notorious BreachForums website. The appeal, filed by the U.S. government, signals that a new sentence could be much more harsh than the one initially issued last year. Fitzpatrick, operating under the...
A vulnerability in ChatGPT’s API can generate DDoS attacks against targeted websites, but the security researcher who discovered it says the flaw has since been addressed by OpenAI. In a security advisory posted to the developer platform GitHub, German security researcher Benjamin Flesch detailed the bug, which occurs when the API is processing HTTP POST requests to the back-end server....
Cloudflare mitigates a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack, highlighting the growing threat of hyper-volumetric assaults. Learn about the… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare says it detected the biggest Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, a 5.6 terabits per second (Tbps) attack directed at an internet service provider (ISP) in Eastern Asia. Despite the staggering volume of the attack, Cloudflare successfully managed and mitigated it without human intervention. The company said in research released Tuesday that the attack,...
The new Trump administration has terminated all memberships of advisory committees that report to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “In alignment with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security, I am directing the termination of all current memberships on advisory – Read More –...
The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name. The misconfiguration persisted for nearly five years until a security researcher spent $300 to register the domain and prevent it from being grabbed by...
President Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, slamming prosecutors as “scum.” The move reignites debates on cybercrime… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero-day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of the AISURU botnet called AIRASHI to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. According to QiAnXin XLab, the attacks have leveraged the security flaw since June 2024. Additional details about the shortcomings have been withheld to prevent further abuse. Some – Read More ...
Regulators around the globe are seeing the market power of consumer-facing tech companies and bringing cases against some of the industry’s biggest household names. They portray these legal fights as the conflicts of giants: the companies versus government regulators. Regulators have an essential mission to ensure companies play by the rules, preserving competition and giving people choices within those markets....
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted a “full and unconditional pardon” to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous Silk Road drug marketplace, after spending 11 years behind bars. “I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my...
As GenAI tools and SaaS platforms become a staple component in the employee toolkit, the risks associated with data exposure, identity vulnerabilities, and unmonitored browsing behavior have skyrocketed. Forward-thinking security teams are looking for security controls and strategies to address these risks, but they do not always know which risks to prioritize. In some cases, they might have – Read...
The personal information of almost half a million people is now in the hands of hackers after a security breach of a company used by some of the world’s best known hotel brands. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. – Read More – Graham Cluley
A previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network (VPN) provider in 2023, according to new findings from ESET. “The attackers replaced the legitimate installer with one that also deployed the group’s signature implant that we have named SlowStepper – a – Read...
Oracle is urging customers to apply its January 2025 Critical Patch Update (CPU) to address 318 new security vulnerabilities spanning its products and services. The most severe of the flaws is a bug in the Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Framework (CVE-2025-21556, CVSS score: 9.9) that could allow an attacker to seize control of susceptible instances. “Easily exploitable –...
Torrance, United States / California, 22nd January 2025, CyberNewsWire – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest ever attack to be reported to date. The UDP protocol-based attack took place on October 29, 2024, targeting one of its customers, an unnamed internet service provider (ISP) from Eastern Asia. The activity originated –...
Welcome to the first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025. We have 18 entries to go through today, and we will be updating the results here as we have them. SUCCESS – The team from PCAutomotive used a stack-based buffer overflow to gain code execution on the Alpine IVI. They earn $20,000 and two Master of Pwn points. – Read...
BreachForums admin Conor Fitzpatrick (Pompompurin) faces resentencing after his lenient 17-day sentence was vacated, highlighting the serious consequences… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Sophos are tracking multiple clusters of hacking activity leveraging Microsoft 365 instances, Microsoft Teams and email bombing tactics to deliver ransomware. In new research released Tuesday, the company said it had identified at least two distinct clusters of hacking activity using the tactics to infect targets between November and December 2024. First, several individuals at an...
Specops 2025 Breached Password Report reveals over 1 billion passwords stolen by malware in the past year, exposing… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
In episode 34 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch in horror as a vacuum cleaner sprouts a robotic arm and legs, a rivet embedded in the side of your head claims it will be able to read your mind and chat up French girls, a robot dog runs much quicker than you ever will, and AI podcast hosts get...
This article explores the recent campaign of Murdoc_Botnet, a malware variant of Mirai targeting vulnerable AVTECH and Huawei… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
Over the past few years, decentralised finance (DeFi) has revolutionised the financial sector. DeFi introduced transparent, permissionless and… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
Millions of devices, including home routers, VPN servers, and CDNs are vulnerable to exploitation due to critical flaws… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new large-scale campaign that exploits security flaws in AVTECH IP cameras and Huawei HG532 routers to rope the devices into a Mirai botnet variant dubbed Murdoc_Botnet. The ongoing activity “demonstrates enhanced capabilities, exploiting vulnerabilities to compromise devices and establish expansive botnet networks,” Qualys security researcher Shilpesh – Read More – The Hacker News
Around the world, attacks against critical infrastructure have become increasingly common. More and more, these aggressions are carried out via mice and keyboards rather than bombs and missiles, such as with the 2021 ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline. From a military strategy perspective, it’s easy to understand why, as cyberattacks against infrastructure can be executed remotely, cheaply, and with comparatively...
A global network of about 13,000 hijacked Mikrotik routers has been employed as a botnet to propagate malware via spam campaigns, the latest addition to a list of botnets powered by MikroTik devices. The activity “take[s] advantage of misconfigured DNS records to pass email protection techniques,” Infoblox security researcher David Brunsdon said in a technical report published last week. “This ...
Medusa is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform that has targeted organisations around the world. Read more about it in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. – Read More – Graham Cluley
A former analyst working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pleaded guilty to transmitting top secret National Defense Information (NDI) to individuals who did not have the necessary authorization to receive it and attempted to cover up the activity. Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, was an employee of the CIA since 2016 and had a Top Secret security...
Imagine receiving a penetration test report that leaves you with more questions than answers. Questions like, “Were all functionalities of the web app tested?” or ” Were there any security issues that could have been identified during testing?” often go unresolved, raising concerns about the thoroughness of the security testing. This frustration is common among many security teams. Pentest –...
こんにちは and welcome to the second annual Pwn2Own Automotive competition. We are at Automotive World in Tokyo, and we’ve brought together some of the best researchers in the world to test the latest automotive components. We had our random drawing for the order of events earlier today, and from that, we have put together the following schedule. Please note that...
Every week seems to bring news of another data breach, and it’s no surprise why: securing sensitive data has become harder than ever. And it’s not just because companies are dealing with orders of magnitude more data. Data flows and user roles are constantly shifting, and data is stored across multiple technologies and cloud environments. Not to mention, compliance requirements...
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a series of cyber attacks that have targeted Chinese-speaking regions like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China with a known malware called ValleyRAT. The attacks leverage a multi-stage loader dubbed PNGPlug to deliver the ValleyRAT payload, Intezer said in a technical report published last week. The infection chain commences with a phishing – Read...
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of ongoing attempts by unknown threat actors to impersonate the cybersecurity agency by sending AnyDesk connection requests. The AnyDesk requests claim to be for conducting an audit to assess the “level of security,” CERT-UA added, cautioning organizations to be on the lookout for such social engineering attempts that seek to ...
FortiGate firewall leak exposes 15,000+ configurations, impacting organizations globally. The actor behind the leak is Belsen Group. Learn… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
The Threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to a new Android malware as part of highly targeted cyber attacks. The artifacts in question, named Tanzeem (meaning “organization” in Urdu) and Tanzeem Update, were spotted in October and December 2024 by cybersecurity company Cyfirma. The apps in question have been found to incorporate identical functions, barring minor modifications...
New research has uncovered security vulnerabilities in multiple tunneling protocols that could allow attackers to perform a wide range of attacks. “Internet hosts that accept tunneling packets without verifying the sender’s identity can be hijacked to perform anonymous attacks and provide access to their networks,” Top10VPN said in a study, as part of a collaboration with KU Leuven professor –...
For the upcoming Pwn2Own Automotive contest, a total of four in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) head units have been selected as targets. One of these is the single-DIN Pioneer DMH-WT7600NEX. This unit offers a variety of functionality, such as wired and wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, USB media playback, and more. This blog post aims to detail some of the attack...
Security researcher discovers a non-password-protected database containing over 240,000 records belonging to US-based FinTech bill payment platform Willow… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
As the digital world becomes more complicated, the lines between national security and cybersecurity are starting to fade. Recent cyber sanctions and intelligence moves show a reality where malware and fake news are used as tools in global politics. Every cyberattack now seems to have deeper political consequences. Governments are facing new, unpredictable threats that can’t be fought with –...
Sneaky 2FA: New Phishing-as-a-Service targets Microsoft 365, leveraging sophisticated evasion techniques and a Telegram-based platform to steal credentials.… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
Cybercrime can be defined as “criminal activities carried out by means of computers or the Internet.” With the growing use of smartphones, mobile devices have become an integral part of this definition, significantly expanding the scope of potential cyber threats. Recent Incidents of Mobile Cybercrime In a notable case, twelve people were recently arrested in […] The post Mobile Cybercrime...
A Hidden Goldmine for Identity ThievesCopier and Printer Identity Theft Printers, fax machines, and copiers—once considered harmless office staples—have become unexpected goldmines for identity thieves. These devices often contain hard drives that store sensitive and personal information, creating significant vulnerabilities for individuals and businesses alike. The Hidden Threat in Office Equipment Since 2002, nearly all […] The post Copier and...
Ponzi schemes of all sorts are over 150 years old and the reason that they have held such great success is that people continue to fall for them. This is no more true than the uptick in Ponzi schemes in SA, and for every criminal busted by the FSCA (Financial Sector Conduct Authority), it seems […] The post Ponzi Scams...
Cybersecurity researchers have identified three sets of malicious packages across the npm and Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that come with capabilities to steal data and even delete sensitive data from infected systems. The list of identified packages is below – @async-mutex/mutex, a typosquat of async-mute (npm) dexscreener, which masquerades as a library for accessing liquidity pool – Read More ...
Hacker IntelBroker claims to have breached Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), exposing sensitive data like source code, certificates, and… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
Popular video-sharing social network TikTok has officially gone dark in the United States, 2025, as a federal ban on the app comes into effect on January 19, 2025. “We regret that a U.S. law banning TikTok will take effect on January 19 and force us to make our services temporarily unavailable,” the company said in a pop-up message. “We’re working...