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Linux Version of DinodasRAT Spotted in Cyber Attacks Across Several Countries
2024-03-28 17:02

A Linux version of a multi-platform backdoor called DinodasRAT has been detected in the wild targeting China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, new findings from Kaspersky reveal. DinodasRAT, also...

Finland Blames Chinese Hacking Group APT31 for Parliament Cyber Attack
2024-03-28 16:50

The Police of Finland (aka Poliisi) has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country's Parliament in 2020. The intrusion,...

Cisco warns of password-spraying attacks targeting VPN services
2024-03-28 16:37

Cisco has shared a set of recommendations for customers to mitigate password-spraying attacks that have been targeting Remote Access VPN services configured on Cisco Secure Firewall devices. The company says that the attacks have also been targeting other remote access VPN services and appear to be part of reconnaissance activity.

New ZenHammer Attack Bypasses RowHammer Defenses on AMD CPUs
2024-03-28 14:44

Cybersecurity researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a new variant of the RowHammer DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) attack that, for the first time, successfully works against AMD Zen 2...

INC Ransom claims responsibility for attack on NHS Scotland
2024-03-28 10:27

NHS Scotland says it managed to contain a ransomware group's malware to a regional branch, preventing the spread of infection across the entire institution.The INC Ransom group this week claimed responsibility for the assault on 'NHS Scotland', saying it stole 3TB worth of data while leaking a small number of sensitive files.

Alert: New Phishing Attack Delivers Keylogger Disguised as Bank Payment Notice
2024-03-27 07:56

A new phishing campaign has been observed leveraging a novel loader malware to deliver an information stealer and keylogger called Agent Tesla. Trustwave SpiderLabs said it identified a phishing...

Brute Force and Dictionary Attacks: A Guide for IT Leaders
2024-03-26 16:00

It's essential that cybersecurity professionals understand the risks associated with brute force attacks. Read this guide from TechRepublic Premium to find out what you need to know about this classic form of cybersecurity attack, how safe you may be and how to defend your systems against brute force attacks.

17,000+ Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany are vulnerable to attack, BSI warns
2024-03-26 13:26

Around 12% of the 45,000 or so Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany that can be accessed from the Internet without restrictions "Are so outdated that security updates are no longer offered for them," the German Federal Office for Information Security has warned today. The BSI worries about attackers breaching those servers by exploiting CVE-2024-21410, a critical elevation of privilege bug that allows attackers to learn a targeted user's NTLM credentials and "Relay" them to authenticate themselves to a vulnerable Exchange Server as the user.

Crafting Shields: Defending Minecraft Servers Against DDoS Attacks
2024-03-26 11:29

Minecraft, with over 500 million registered users and 166 million monthly players, faces significant risks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, threatening server functionality,...

US sanctions APT31 hackers behind critical infrastructure attacks
2024-03-25 16:06

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Wuhan-based company used by the Chinese Ministry of State Security as cover in attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure organizations. The Office of Foreign Assets Control has also designated two Chinese nationals linked to the APT31 Chinese state-backed hacking group and who worked as contractors for the Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, Limited MSS front company for their involvement in the same attacks and "Endangering U.S. national security."