Security News

Chinese hackers exploit Fortinet VPN zero-day to steal credentials
2024-11-18 21:20

Chinese threat actors use a custom post-exploitation toolkit named 'DeepData' to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiClient Windows VPN client that steal credentials. [...]

Iranian Hackers Deploy WezRat Malware in Attacks Targeting Israeli Organizations
2024-11-15 17:57

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new remote access trojan and information stealer used by Iranian state-sponsored actors to conduct reconnaissance of compromised endpoints and...

Bitfinex hacker gets 5 years in prison for 120,000 bitcoin heist
2024-11-15 16:36

A hacker responsible for stealing 119,754 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. authorities. [...]

Vietnamese Hacker Group Deploys New PXA Stealer Targeting Europe and Asia
2024-11-15 11:12

A Vietnamese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an information-stealing campaign targeting government and education entities in Europe and Asia with a new Python-based malware called PXA...

High-Severity Flaw in PostgreSQL Allows Hackers to Exploit Environment Variables
2024-11-15 06:40

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the PostgreSQL open-source database system that could allow unprivileged users to alter environment variables, and...

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. [...]