Security News > 2023 > October
A new ransomware-as-a-service brand named Hunters International has emerged using code used by the Hive ransomware operation, leading to the valid assumption that the old gang has resumed activity under a different flag. Security researchers analyzing a sample of the Hunters International malware discovered a striking resemblance to the code used in Hive ransomware attacks.
The Austrian police have arrested 20 people across the country linked to an illegal IPTV network that, between 2016 and 2023, decrypted copyright-protected broadcasts and redistributed them to thousands of customers. The piracy ring operated on a hierarchy of suppliers, who decrypted and supplied TV signals, and resellers, who bought access to the signal for up to $50/year and resold it to end customers for up to $200/year.
Microsoft says Windows 11 22H2 now natively supports almost a dozen additional archive formats, including RAR, 7-Zip, Tar, and GZ archives. The updated list of supported archive types in Windows 11 now adds.
1Password also affected by Okta Support System breachFollowing in the footsteps of BeyondTrust and CloudFlare, 1Password has revealed that it has been affected by the Okta Support System breach. Microsoft announces wider availability of AI-powered Security CopilotMicrosoft Security Copilot has been made available to a larger number of enterprise customers, via an invitation-only Early Access Program.
The Clark County School District in Nevada is dealing with a potentially massive data breach, as hackers email parents their children's' data that was allegedly stolen during a recent cyberattack. "On approximately October 5, 2023, Clark County School District became aware of a cybersecurity incident impacting its email environment," reads a statement from the Clark County School District.
HackerOne has announced that its bug bounty programs have awarded over $300 million in rewards to ethical hackers and vulnerability researchers since the platform's inception. Thirty hackers have earned over a million USD for their submissions, and one has broken the record, receiving over $4 million for his bug reports.
New findings have shed light on what's said to be a lawful attempt to covertly intercept traffic originating from jabber[.]ru (aka xmpp[.]ru), an XMPP-based instant messaging service, via servers...
Three years after Apple introduced a menu setting called Private Wi-Fi Address, a way to spoof network identifiers called MAC addresses, the privacy protection may finally work as advertised, thanks to a software fix. "To communicate with a Wi-Fi network, a device must identify itself to the network using a unique network address called a Media Access Control address," Apple explains in its documentation.
Scores of fishing lines extend into the water, each bearing specialized hooks operated by automated reels. When they pull a squid on board, it squirts warm, viscous ink, which coats the walls and floors.
The vulnerability, which the researchers named iLeakage, enables threat actors to read Gmail messages, reveal passwords and uncover other personal information. The iLeakage vulnerability has not yet been exploited in the wild as of October 27.