Security News
Apple has released emergency security updates to address a new zero-day vulnerability used in attacks to hack iPhones, iPads, and Macs. The zero-day patched today is tracked as CVE-2023-23529 [1, 2] and is a WebKit confusion issue that could be exploited to trigger OS crashes and gain code execution on compromised devices.
French police have arrested a 25-year-old Finnish man accused of hacking a psychotherapy clinic, stealing more than 22,000 patients' therapy notes, demanding ransom payments from them and also leaking this very private info on a Tor website. At the same time, Kivimäki was "Arrested in absentia" by the Helsinki District Court for aggravated attempted extortion, aggravated computer break-in and aggravated dissemination of information violating personal privacy, according to the local cops.
An Iranian nation-state group sanctioned by the U.S. government has been attributed to the hack of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in early January 2023. Two Iranian nationals have been accused for their role in the disinformation and threat campaign.
GitHub says unknown attackers have stolen encrypted code-signing certificates for its Desktop and Atom applications after gaining access to some of its development and release planning repositories. GitHub has found no evidence that the password-protected certificates were used for malicious purposes.
According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the ongoing campaign is said to have recorded 134 million exploit attempts as of December 2022, with 97% of the attacks occurring in the past four months. What's more, 95% of the attacks leveraging the security shortcoming that emanated from Russia singled out organizations in Australia.
The Hive ransomware operation's Tor payment and data leak sites were seized as part of an international law enforcement operation after the FBI infiltrated the gang's infrastructure last July. Today, the US Department of Justice and Europol announced that an international law enforcement operation secretly infiltrated the Hive ransomware gang's infrastructure in July 2022, when they secretly began monitoring the operation for five months.
A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum.In a statement to BleepingComputer, Yandex said their systems were not hacked, and a former employee leaked the source code repository.
The FBI has confirmed that the North Korean state-sponsored 'Lazarus' and APT38 hacking groups were behind the theft of $100 million worth of Ethereum stolen from Harmony Horizon in June 2022. Yesterday, the FBI confirmed that two North Korean hacking groups, Lazarus and APT38, were behind the attack.
"Recently, we were informed by a third-party technology vendor that sends transactional emails on behalf of its clients like FanDuel that they had experienced a security breach within their system that impacted several of their clients," reads a FanDuel 'Notice of Third-Party Vendor Security Incident' seen by BleepingComputer. "On Sunday evening, the vendor confirmed that FanDuel customer names and email addresses were acquired by an unauthorized actor. No customer passwords, financial account information, or other personal information was acquired in this incident."
Last Thursday, FanDuel emailed customers to warn them that the threat actors acquired their names and email addresses during the MailChimp breach. "Recently, we were informed by a third-party technology vendor that sends transactional emails on behalf of its clients like FanDuel that they had experienced a security breach within their system that impacted several of their clients," reads a FanDuel 'Notice of Third-Party Vendor Security Incident' seen by BleepingComputer.