A 33-year-old Latvian national living in Moscow, Russia, has been charged in the U.S. for allegedly stealing data, extorting victims, and laundering ransom payments since August 2021. Deniss Zolotarjovs (aka… Read More »Latvian Hacker Extradited to U.S. for Role in Karakurt Cybercrime Group
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new information stealer that’s designed to target Apple macOS hosts and harvest a wide range of information, underscoring how threat actors are increasingly setting their… Read More »New macOS Malware “Cthulhu Stealer” Targets Apple Users’ Data
SolarWinds has issued patches to address a new security flaw in its Web Help Desk (WHD) software that could allow remote unauthenticated users to gain unauthorized access to susceptible instances.… Read More »Hardcoded Credential Vulnerability Found in SolarWinds Web Help Desk
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a hardware backdoor within a particular model of MIFARE Classic contactless cards that could allow authentication with an unknown key and open hotel rooms and office… Read More »Hardware Backdoor Discovered in RFID Cards Used in Hotels and Offices Worldwide
Details have emerged about a China-nexus threat group’s exploitation of a recently disclosed, now-patched security flaw in Cisco switches as a zero-day to seize control of the appliance and evade… Read More »Chinese Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Cisco Switch Flaw to Gain System Control
As many as 15,000 applications using Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Application Load Balancer (ALB) for authentication are potentially susceptible to a configuration-based issue that could expose them to sidestep access… Read More »New ‘ALBeast’ Vulnerability Exposes Weakness in AWS Application Load Balancer
What is Continuous Attack Surface Penetration Testing or CASPT? Continuous Penetration Testing or Continuous Attack Surface Penetration Testing (CASPT) is an advanced security practice that involves the continuous, automated, and… Read More »The Facts About Continuous Penetration Testing and Why It’s Important
GitHub has released fixes to address a set of three security flaws impacting its Enterprise Server product, including one critical bug that could be abused to gain site administrator privileges.… Read More »GitHub Patches Critical Security Flaw in Enterprise Server Granting Admin Privileges
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress that could permit unauthenticated users to gain administrator privileges. “The plugin suffers from an unauthenticated… Read More »Critical Flaw in WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Allows Hackers Admin Access
Google has rolled out security fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-7971,… Read More »Google Fixes High-Severity Chrome Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild