Security News

PureCrypter Deploys Agent Tesla and New TorNet Backdoor in Ongoing Cyberattacks
2025-01-28 16:34

A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to an ongoing phishing email campaign that has been ongoing since at least July 2024 specifically targeting users in Poland and Germany. The...

Top-Rated Chinese AI App DeepSeek Limits Registrations Amid Cyberattacks
2025-01-28 10:16

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that has captured much of the artificial intelligence (AI) buzz in recent days, said it's restricting registrations on the service, citing malicious attacks. "Due...

DeepSeek halts new signups amid "large-scale" cyberattack
2025-01-27 22:01

Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has disabled registrations on it DeepSeek-V3 chat platform due to an ongoing "large-scale" cyberattack targeting its services. [...]

EU sanctions Russian GRU hackers for cyberattacks against Estonia
2025-01-27 18:51

The European Union sanctioned three hackers, part of Unit 29155 of Russia's military intelligence service (GRU), for their involvement in cyberattacks targeting Estonia's government agencies in 2020. [...]

DeepSeek limits new accounts amid cyberattack
2025-01-27 17:13

Chinese AI startup grapples with consequences of sudden popularity Updated China's DeepSeek, which shook up American AI makers with the debut of its V3 and reasoning-capable R1 LLM families, has...

13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks
2025-01-21 12:46

A global network of about 13,000 hijacked Mikrotik routers has been employed as a botnet to propagate malware via spam campaigns, the latest addition to a list of botnets powered by MikroTik...

MirrorFace Leverages ANEL and NOOPDOOR in Multi-Year Cyberattacks on Japan
2025-01-09 10:44

Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) and National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NCSC) accused a China-linked threat actor named MirrorFace of orchestrating a...

Japanese Police claim China ran five-year cyberattack campaign targeting local orgs
2025-01-09 03:56

‘MirrorFace’ group found ways to run malware in the Windows sandbox, which is worrying Japan’s National Police Agency and Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity have confirmed...

Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack
2025-01-09 00:44

Class act: Biz only serves 60M people across America, no biggie A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers'...

US Treasury Department Sanctions Chinese Company Over Cyberattacks
2025-01-07 12:00

From the Washington Post: The sanctions target Beijing Integrity Technology Group, which U.S. officials say employed workers responsible for the Flax Typhoon attacks which compromised devices...