Security News

International Monetary Fund email accounts hacked in cyberattack
2024-03-15 19:48

The International Monetary Fund disclosed a cyber incident on Friday after unknown attackers breached 11 IMF email accounts earlier this year. The IMF has found no evidence that the attackers gained access to other systems or resources outside of the breached email accounts.

Over 15,000 hacked Roku accounts sold for 50¢ each to buy hardware
2024-03-11 17:49

Roku has disclosed a data breach impacting over 15,000 customers after hacked accounts were used to make fraudulent purchases of hardware and streaming subscriptions. On Friday, Roku first disclosed the data breach, warning that 15,363 customer accounts were hacked in a credential stuffing attack.

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...

Hacked WordPress sites use visitors' browsers to hack other sites
2024-03-06 22:35

Hackers are conducting widescale attacks on WordPress sites to inject scripts that force visitors' browsers to bruteforce passwords for other sites. They then hack X accounts, create YouTube videos, or take out Google and X advertisements to promote the sites and steal visitor's cryptocurrency.

Ukraine claims it hacked Russian Ministry of Defense servers
2024-03-04 15:41

The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense claims that it breached the servers of the Russian Ministry of Defense and stole sensitive documents. Software used by the Russian Ministry of Defense for protecting and encrypting data.

CISA cautions against using hacked Ivanti VPN gateways even after factory resets
2024-02-29 20:35

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency revealed today that attackers who hack Ivanti VPN appliances using one of multiple actively exploited vulnerabilities may be able to maintain root persistence even after performing factory resets. The authoring organizations encourage network defenders to assume that user and service account credentials stored within the affected Ivanti VPN appliances are likely compromised, hunt for malicious activity on their networks using the detection methods and indicators of compromise within this advisory, run Ivanti's most recent external ICT, and apply available patching guidance provided by Ivanti as version updates become available.

CISA warns against using hacked Ivanti devices even after factory resets
2024-02-29 20:35

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency revealed today that attackers who breached Ivanti appliances using one of multiple actively exploited vulnerabilities can maintain root persistence even after performing factory resets. CISA found that the Ivanti ICT failed to detect compromise while investigating multiple hacking incidents involving hacked Ivanti appliances.

Anycubic 3D printers hacked worldwide to expose security flaw
2024-02-28 23:06

According to a wave of online reports from Anycubic customers, someone hacked their 3D printers to warn that the devices are exposed to attacks. This vulnerability allegedly enables potential attackers to control any Anycubic 3D printer affected by this vulnerability using the company's MQTT service API. The file received by the impacted devices also asks Anycubic to open-source their 3D printers because the company's software "Is lacking."

Epic Games: "Zero evidence" we were hacked by Mogilevich gang
2024-02-28 16:14

Epic Games said they found zero evidence of a cyberattack or data theft after the Mogilevich extortion group claimed to have breached the company's servers. "We are investigating but there is currently zero evidence that these claims are legitimate," Epic Games told BleepingComputer in a statement.

China Surveillance Company Hacked
2024-02-27 12:03

Last week, someone posted something like 570 files, images and chat logs from a Chinese company called I-Soon. I-Soon sells hacking and espionage services to Chinese national and local government.