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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning that ransomware threat actors are targeting casino servers and use legitimate system management tools to increase their permissions on the network. [...]
Okta says attackers who breached its customer support system last month gained access to files belonging to 134 customers, five of them later being targeted in session hijacking attacks with the help of stolen session tokens. "From September 28, 2023 to October 17, 2023, a threat actor gained unauthorized access to files inside Okta's customer support system associated with 134 Okta customers, or less than 1% of Okta customers," Okta revealed.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today charged SolarWinds with defrauding investors by allegedly concealing cybersecurity defense issues before a December 2020 linked to APT29, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service hacking division. The SEC claims SolarWinds failed to notify investors about cybersecurity risks and poor practices that its Chief Information Security Officer, Timothy G. Brown, knew about.
Cisco has addressed the two vulnerabilities that hackers exploited to compromise tens of thousands of IOS XE devices over the past week. Both vulnerabilities, which Cisco tracks as CSCwh87343, are in the web UI of Cisco devices running the IOS XE software.
A group of cyber activists under the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance banner has hacked the servers of the Trigona ransomware gang and wiped them clean after copying all the information available. Ukrainian Cyber Alliance hackers gained access to Trigona ransomware's infrastructure by using a public exploit for CVE-2023-22515, a critical vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server that can be leveraged remotely to escalate privileges.
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The District of Columbia Board of Elections is currently probing a data leak involving an unknown number of voter records following breach claims from a threat actor known as RansomedVC. DCBOE operates as an autonomous agency within the District of Columbia Government and is entrusted with overseeing elections, managing ballot access, and handling voter registration processes. "We have successfully breached the District of Columbia Board Of Elections and have gotten more than 600k lines of USA Voters," the threat actor says.
Apple released emergency security updates to patch a new zero-day security flaw exploited in attacks targeting iPhone and iPad users. The zero-day is caused by a weakness discovered in the XNU kernel that enables local attackers to escalate privileges on unpatched iPhones and iPads.
Mixin Network, an open-source, peer-to-peer transactional network for digital assets, has announced today on Twitter that deposits and withdrawals are suspended effective immediately due to a $200 million hack the platform suffered on Saturday. Blockchain trackers like PeckShield and Lookonchain have identified roughly $141 million of the stolen assets, analyzed as $93.5M in ETH, $23.5M in DAI, and $23.3M in BTC. This makes the Mixin incident one of the most significant crypto heists this year and creates immediate suspicion about the Lazarus group being responsible for the attack.
The ongoing face-off between Washington and Beijing over technology and security issues has taken a new twist, with China accusing the US of hacking into the servers of Huawei in 2009 and conducting other cyber-attacks to steal critical data. China's Ministry of State Security made the allegations in a posting on WeChat, claiming that in 2009 US intelligence services "Began to invade servers at Huawei headquarters and continued to monitor them."