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This is more of a demonstration than a real-world vulnerability, but researchers can use electromagnetic interference to remotely control touchscreens. It's important to note that the attack has a few key limitations.
UTM is thought to be an all-in-one solution for cybersecurity. In general, it is a versatile software or hardware firewall solution integrated with IPS and other security services.
"On August 8th, DigitalOcean discovered that our Mailchimp account had been compromised as part of what we suspect to be a wider Mailchimp security incident that affected their customers, targeted at crypto and blockchain. From that Mailchimp incident, we suspect certain DigitalOcean customer email addresses may have been exposed," shared Tyler Healy, VP Security at DigitalOcean. Mailchimp is an email marketing automation platform, which DigitalOcean uses - or did use, until this incident - to deliver "Email confirmations, password resets, email-based alerts for product health, and dozens of other transactional emails" to its users.
This included using email, OneDrive and other Microsoft cloud services accounts, as well as phony LinkedIn profiles that the criminals used to scope out employees who work for target organizations. In May, Google and Reuters attributed a hack-and-leak campaign to Coldriver, aka Seaborgium, in which the criminals leaked emails and documents reportedly stolen from high-level Brexit proponents, including former British spymaster Richard Dearlove.
The SOVA Android banking trojan is continuing to be actively developed with upgraded capabilities to target no less than 200 mobile applications, including banking apps and crypto exchanges and wallets, up from 90 apps when it started out. In less than a year, the trojan has also acted as a foundation for another Android malware called MaliBot that's designed to target online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy.
A company supplying 330 million liters of drinking water to 1.6 consumers daily, has issued a statement confirming IT disruption from a cyberattack. As the announcement explains, the safety and water distribution systems are still operational, so the disruption of the IT systems doesn't impact the supply of safe water to its customers or those of its subsidiaries, Cambridge Water and South Staffs Water.
As the announcement explains, the safety and water distribution systems are still operational, so the disruption of the IT systems doesn't impact the supply of safe water to its customers or those of its subsidiaries, Cambridge Water and South Staffs Water. The Clop ransomware gang claimed Thames Water as their victim via an announcement on their onion site today, alleging to have accessed SCADA systems they could manipulate to cause harm to 15 million customers.
A company supplying 330 million liters of drinking water to 1.6 consumers daily, has issued a statement confirming IT disruption from a cyberattack. As the announcement explains, the safety and water distribution systems are still operational, so the disruption of the IT systems doesn't impact the supply of safe water to its customers or those of its subsidiaries, Cambridge Water and South Staffs Water.
The attacker behind the recent Twilio data breach may have accessed phone numbers and SMS registration codes for 1,900 users of the popular secure messaging app Signal. "Among the 1,900 phone numbers, the attacker explicitly searched for three numbers, and we've received a report from one of those three users that their account was re-registered," the Signal team shared on Monday.
Russian state-sponsored actors are continuing to strike Ukrainian entities with information-stealing malware as part of what's suspected to be an espionage operation. Symantec, a division of Broadcom Software, attributed the malicious campaign to a threat actor tracked Shuckworm, also known as Actinium, Armageddon, Gamaredon, Primitive Bear, and Trident Ursa.