Category: Viral
Oct 08, 2024The Hacker NewsWeb Security / Payment Fraud Is your store at risk? Discover how an innovative web security solution saved one global online retailer and its unsuspecting customers from an “evil twin” disaster. Read the full real-life case study here. The Invisible Threat in Online Shopping When is a checkout page, not a…
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Oct 08, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / APT Attack Russian government agencies and industrial entities are the target of an ongoing activity cluster dubbed Awaken Likho. “The attackers now prefer using the agent for the legitimate MeshCentral platform instead of the UltraVNC module, which they had previously used to gain remote access to systems,” Kaspersky said,…
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ESET researchers discovered a series of attacks on a governmental organization in Europe using tools capable of targeting air-gapped systems. The campaign, which we attribute to GoldenJackal, a cyberespionage APT group that targets government and diplomatic entities, took place from May 2022 to March 2024. By analyzing the toolset deployed by the group, we were…
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Oct 08, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Malware A little-known threat actor tracked as GoldenJackal has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting embassies and governmental organizations with an aim to infiltrate air-gapped systems using two disparate bespoke toolsets. Victims included a South Asian embassy in Belarus and a European Union government (E.U.) organization,…
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Ukraine has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that targeted Russia state media company VGTRK and disrupted its operations, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters. The incident took place on the night of October 7, VGTRK confirmed, describing it as an “unprecedented hacker attack.” However, it said “no significant damage” was caused and that…
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Oct 08, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Privacy Qualcomm has rolled out security updates to address nearly two dozen flaws spanning proprietary and open-source components, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-43047 (CVSS score: 7.8), has been described as a user-after-free bug in the Digital Signal…
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“ I’m not fighting for mindshare with partners. I have the mindshare, it’s just: ‘What am I going to do with it?’ That’s the really cool part,” Zoom’s new head of global channels GTM Nick Tidd, formerly HP Poly’s global channel chief, told CRN. Videoconferencing giant Zoom Video Communications is making good on its commitment…
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The semiconductor giant says it is partnering with Inflection AI for a new enterprise AI solution that is available on Intel Tiber AI Cloud and will be available as a server appliance next year. Intel announced on Monday that it has launched an AI cloud service featuring its new Gaudi 3 accelerator chips, saying that…
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The telecom giant says a portion of its customers were impacted by the breach of FBCS, a collection agency formerly used by Comcast. Comcast Cable Communications disclosed that a portion of its customers were impacted by the breach of FBCS (Financial Business and Consumer Solutions), a collection agency formerly used by the telecom giant. In…
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A Wall Street Journal report pointed to Verizon and AT&T among the impacted internet service providers in the China-linked attacks. Verizon and AT&T were reportedly among the affected internet service providers in a China-linked hacking campaign by a group tracked as Salt Typhoon. The report Saturday from the Wall Street Journal followed the outlet’s prior…
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