Security News

Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years, Guilty of Laundering $10.5 Billion in Bitcoin
2024-11-15 05:30

Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, has been sentenced to five years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced...

Hacker gets 10 years in prison for extorting US healthcare provider
2024-11-14 16:58

Robert Purbeck, a 45-year-old man from Idaho, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for hacking at least 19 organizations in the United States, stealing the personal data of more than 132,000...

Russian Hackers Exploit New NTLM Flaw to Deploy RAT Malware via Phishing Emails
2024-11-14 05:43

A newly patched security flaw impacting Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) was exploited as a zero-day by a suspected Russia-linked actor as part of cyber attacks targeting Ukraine. The vulnerability...

Hackers use macOS extended file attributes to hide malicious code
2024-11-13 22:53

Hackers are using a novel technique that abuses extended attributes for macOS files to deliver a new trojan that researchers call RustyAttr. [...]

US indicts Snowflake hackers who extorted $2.5 million from 3 victims
2024-11-13 18:52

The Department of Justice has unsealed the indictment against two suspected Snowflake hackers, who breached more than 165 organizations using the services of the Snowflake cloud storage company. [...]

Iranian Hackers Use "Dream Job" Lures to Deploy SnailResin Malware in Aerospace Attacks
2024-11-13 07:14

The Iranian threat actor known as TA455 has been observed taking a leaf out of a North Korean hacking group's playbook to orchestrate its own version of the Dream Job campaign targeting the...

North Korean hackers create Flutter apps to bypass macOS security
2024-11-12 13:00

North Korean threat actors target Apple macOS systems using trojanized Notepad apps and minesweeper games created with Flutter, which are signed and notarized by legitimate Apple developer IDs. [...]

North Korean Hackers Target macOS Using Flutter-Embedded Malware
2024-11-12 13:00

Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Korea) have been found embedding malware within Flutter applications, marking the first time this tactic has...

Hackers now use ZIP file concatenation to evade detection
2024-11-10 15:13

Hackers are targeting Windows machines using the ZIP file concatenation technique to deliver malicious payloads in compressed archives without security solutions detecting them. [...]

Unpatched Mazda Connect bugs let hackers install persistent malware
2024-11-08 17:48

Attackers could exploit several vulnerabilities in the Mazda Connect infotainment unit, present in multiple car models including Mazda 3 (2014-2021), to execute arbitrary code with root permission. [...]