Security News > 2024 > August

Latvian Hacker Extradited to U.S. for Role in Karakurt Cybercrime Group
2024-08-23 04:38

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...

Vulnerability prioritization is only the beginning
2024-08-23 04:30

To date, most technology solutions focused on vulnerability management have focused on the prioritization of risks. That usually took the shape of some risk-ranking structure displayed in a table...

Fraud tactics and the growing prevalence of AI scams
2024-08-23 04:00

In the first six months of 2024, Hiya flagged nearly 20 billion calls as suspected spam – more than 107 million spam calls everyday. The data showed spam flag rates of more than 20% of unknown...

The changing dynamics of ransomware as law enforcement strikes
2024-08-23 03:30

After peaking in late 2023, the ransomware industry is beginning to stabilize in productivity, with notable developments in ransomware targets, and industry dynamics, according to WithSecure....

Uniting the brightest minds in security, network and cloud
2024-08-23 03:26

Immerse is Cloudflare’s premier annual conference in Southeast Asia Partner Content Cloudflare is excited to present Immerse, our flagship event designed to connect attendees directly with the...

Surveillance Watch
2024-08-23 01:15

This is a fantastic project mapping the global surveillance industry.

SolarWinds left critical hardcoded credentials in its Web Help Desk product
2024-08-22 22:36

Why go to the effort of backdooring code when devs will basically do it for you accidentally anyway SolarWinds left hardcoded credentials in its Web Help Desk product that can be used by remote,...

Hackers are exploiting critical bug in LiteSpeed Cache plugin
2024-08-22 22:14

Hackers have already started to exploit the critical severity vulnerability that affects LiteSpeed Cache, a WordPress plugin used for accelerating response times, a day after technical details...

Qilin ransomware now steals credentials from Chrome browsers
2024-08-22 21:40

The Qilin ransomware group has been using a new tactic and deploys a custom stealer to steal account credentials stored in Google Chrome browser. [...]

CrowdStrike deja vu as 'performance issue' leaves systems sluggish
2024-08-22 18:15

Not related to the massive outage in July, security biz spokesperson told us Some IT administrators suffered a moment of deja vu on Thursday morning as CrowdStrike blamed a cloud service issue for...