Security News

Change Healthcare registers pulse after crippling ransomware attack
2024-03-08 14:33

Change Healthcare has taken the first steps toward a full recovery from the ransomware attack in February by bringing its electronic prescription services back online. The first step towards a full restoration of systems will be welcome news to the US healthcare system after thousands of hospitals and pharmacies reported severe disruptions following the attack in late February.

A Taxonomy of Prompt Injection Attacks
2024-03-08 12:06

Researchers ran a global prompt hacking competition, and have documented the results in a paper that both gives a lot of good examples and tries to organize a taxonomy of effective prompt injection strategies. These deployments are vulnerable to prompt injection and jailbreaking, in which models are manipulated to ignore their original instructions and follow potentially malicious ones.

Possible China link to Change Healthcare ransomware attack
2024-03-07 18:30

A criminal claiming to be an ALPHV/BlackCat affiliate - the gang responsible for the widely disruptive Change Healthcare ransomware infection last month - may have ties to Chinese government-backed cybercrime syndicates. "Some of our HUMINT sources with direct contact to Notchy says it's high probability that Notchy is associated with China Nation-State groups," Menlo's threat intel team said in a report Wednesday.

MiTM phishing attack can let attackers unlock and steal a Tesla
2024-03-07 17:07

Researchers demonstrated how they could conduct a Man-in-the-Middle phishing attack to compromise Tesla accounts, unlocking cars, and starting them. The attack works on the latest Tesla app, version 4.30.6, and Tesla software version 11.1 2024.2.7.

Flipper Zero WiFi phishing attack can unlock and steal Tesla cars
2024-03-07 17:07

An easy phishing attack using a Flipper Zero device can lead to compromising Tesla accounts, unlocking cars, and starting them. The attack works on the latest Tesla app, version 4.30.6, and Tesla software version 11.1 2024.2.7.

Flipper Zero WiFi attack can unlock and steal Tesla cars
2024-03-07 17:07

An easy phishing attack using a Flipper Zero device can lead to compromising Tesla accounts, unlocking cars, and starting them. The attack works on the latest Tesla app, version 4.30.6, and Tesla software version 11.1 2024.2.7.

JetBrains TeamCity under attack by ransomware thugs after disclosure mess
2024-03-07 16:34

Security researchers are increasingly seeing active exploit attempts using the latest vulnerabilities in JetBrains' TeamCity that in some cases are leading to ransomware deployment. Christiaan Beek, senior director of threat analytics at Rapid7, noted on AttackerKB that both TeamCity vulnerabilities were spotted being exploited in the wild.

Hacked WordPress Sites Abusing Visitors' Browsers for Distributed Brute-Force Attacks
2024-03-07 13:45

Threat actors are conducting brute-force attacks against WordPress sites by leveraging malicious JavaScript injections, new findings from Sucuri reveal. The attacks, which take the form of...

Chinese State Hackers Target Tibetans with Supply Chain, Watering Hole Attacks
2024-03-07 13:22

The China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda orchestrated both watering hole and supply chain attacks targeting Tibetan users at least since September 2023. The end of the attacks is to...

PetSmart warns of credential stuffing attacks trying to hack accounts
2024-03-07 00:25

Pet retail giant PetSmart is warning some customers their passwords were reset due to an ongoing credential stuffing attack attempting to breach accounts. In new email notifications sent to PetSmart customers first seen by DarkWebInformer, the company warns that customers are being targeted by credential stuffing attacks used to gain access to their accounts.