Prajeet Nair
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BlackLotus Malware Bypasses Secure Boot on Windows Machines
Eset researchers discovered the first in-the-wild bootkit malware, BlackLotus, bypassing security and booting up on fully up-to-date Windows 11 systems. Researchers → Read More
Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday Fixes 3 Zero-Days
Microsoft, in its February monthly dump of fixes, is patching three actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, including one that coaxes users into downloading a → Read More
Play Ransomware Lists A10 Networks on Its Leak Site
The Play ransomware group listed networking hardware manufacturer A10 Networks on its leak site after briefly gaining access to the company's IT infrastructure, → Read More
'PixPirate' Banking Trojan Targets Brazilian Pix Users
An Android banking Trojan is targeting Brazilian adopters of an instant payment platform known as Pix, marking another foray by the South American country's → Read More
Massive Ransomware Campaign Targets VMware ESXi Servers
A massive automated ransomware campaign is targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors worldwide, warns CERT-FR, the French government's computer emergency readiness team → Read More
'Hack the Pentagon' Hackers Will Literally Hack the Pentagon
The U.S. Department of Defense is looking for a few good hackers to penetrate a facilities network underpinning the Pentagon's basement, mezzanine, and the command → Read More
Co-Founder of OneCoin Cryptocurrency Scam Pleads Guilty
Karl Sebastian Greenwood, a dual citizen of Sweden and the United Kingdom, pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to his role in selling the purported → Read More
Australian Telecom Firm Leaks Data of 130,000 Customers
Australian telecommunications provider Telstra apologized for accidentally publishing names, numbers and addresses of over 130,000 customers whose details were → Read More
LastPass Breach Exposes Customer Data
Hackers stole customer information but not passwords when they broke into password manager LastPass' third-party cloud storage service, the company disclosed. An → Read More
Cyberattack at Boeing Disrupts Flight Planning
Distribution of airspace safety notices are affected by a cyber incident at Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen, the nature of which the company won't disclose. "At → Read More
North Korea Disguising Android Malware as Legitimate Apps
North Korean state hacking group Kimsuky is developing Android malware targeted at South Korean users by disguising the apps as legitimate apps including a Google → Read More
Police in Europe Arrest 31 for Hacking and Stealing Autos
A European ring of auto thieves used software branded as a diagnostic tool to perform fobless thefts of cars made by two French manufacturers. It looks as if the → Read More
Iranian Hackers Accessed Albania's Network for 14 Months
Iranian hackers rambled across the Albanian government's network for 14 months before launching a ransomware and disk wiper attack in July, says the U.S. → Read More
Uber Says Lapsus$ Hacker Breached Its Internal Systems
Uber is fingering adolescent extortion hacking group Lapsus$ for the disruption to its internal systems. A self-proclaimed 18-year-old last week spammed the company → Read More
Chinese State Hackers Unleash Linux Backdoor
Chinese state-backed cyber spies developed a Linux variant of a Windows backdoor to target a Hong Kong university after Beijing squashed pro-democracy protests in → Read More
Online Attack Disrupts InterContinental Hotels Group
Patrons of InterContinental Hotels Group hotels might need to call the front desk rather than book hotel rooms online due to an ongoing cyberattack. Cybersecurity → Read More
Spanish-Language Trojan Targets Many Industry Verticals
Researchers uncovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting automotive and chemical manufacturers across the Spanish-speaking nations of Mexico and Spain. The latest → Read More
Scammers Piggyback on AWS to Phish Victims
Threat actors are using Amazon Web Services solutions to create phishing pages that bypass security scanners and scam victims into handing over credentials. Avanan → Read More
Microsoft Patches 'DogWalk' Zero-Day in August Patch Tuesday
More than two years after being notified of it, Microsoft issued a fix for a Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool vulnerability known as DogWalk. The fix is → Read More
North Korean Cryptocurrency Hacking Poised to Get Even Worse
North Korean state-sponsored theft of cryptocurrency could intensify once cryptocurrency becomes accepted as a means of payment settlement, said a panelist at a → Read More