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Hackers use Citrix Bleed flaw in attacks on govt networks worldwide
2023-11-01 18:46

Researchers from Mandiant report that four ongoing campaigns target vulnerable Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances, with attacks underway since late August 2023. The Citrix Bleed CVE-2023-4966 vulnerability was disclosed on October 10 as a critical severity flaw impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, allowing access to sensitive information on the devices.

Hackers exploit recent F5 BIG-IP flaws in stealthy attacks
2023-11-01 14:52

F5 is warning BIG-IP admins that devices are being breached by "Skilled" hackers exploiting two recently disclosed vulnerabilities to erase signs of their access and achieve stealthy code execution. F5 has observed threat actors using the two flaws in combination, so even applying the mitigation for CVE-2023-46747 could be enough to stop most attacks.

North Korean Hackers Targeting Crypto Experts with KANDYKORN macOS Malware
2023-11-01 09:02

State-sponsored threat actors from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been found targeting blockchain engineers of an unnamed crypto exchange platform via Discord with a novel...

Hackers Using MSIX App Packages to Infect Windows PCs with GHOSTPULSE Malware
2023-10-30 04:21

A new cyber attack campaign has been observed using spurious MSIX Windows app package files for popular software such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Grammarly, and Cisco Webex to...

Hackers email stolen student data to parents of Nevada school district
2023-10-28 18:11

The Clark County School District in Nevada is dealing with a potentially massive data breach, as hackers email parents their children's' data that was allegedly stolen during a recent cyberattack. "On approximately October 5, 2023, Clark County School District became aware of a cybersecurity incident impacting its email environment," reads a statement from the Clark County School District.

HackerOne paid ethical hackers over $300 million in bug bounties
2023-10-28 15:17

HackerOne has announced that its bug bounty programs have awarded over $300 million in rewards to ethical hackers and vulnerability researchers since the platform's inception. Thirty hackers have earned over a million USD for their submissions, and one has broken the record, receiving over $4 million for his bug reports.

Hackers earn over $1 million for 58 zero-days at Pwn2Own Toronto
2023-10-27 19:00

The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition has ended with security researchers earning $1,038,500 for 58 zero-day exploits targeting consumer products between October 24 and October 27. During the Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking event organized by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, security researchers targeted mobile and IoT devices.

Lazarus hackers breached dev repeatedly to deploy SIGNBT malware
2023-10-27 16:15

The North Korean Lazarus hacking group repeatedly compromised a software vendor using flaws in vulnerable software despite multiple patches and warnings being made available by the developer. SIGNBT can also fetch additional payloads from the C2 and deploy them on the host, providing Lazarus with operational versatility.

Forget the outside hacker, the bigger threat is inside by the coffee machine
2023-10-26 20:15

Kettle In this week's Kettle the topic is one that's been much in the news this week - the much-underrated insider threat issue. Time and again the most effective thieves are already inside the building and using their corporate-issued credentials.

France says Russian state hackers breached numerous critical networks
2023-10-26 16:40

The Russian APT28 hacking group has been targeting government entities, businesses, universities, research institutes, and think tanks in France since the second half of 2021. The Russian hackers have been compromising peripheral devices on critical networks of French organizations and moving away from utilizing backdoors to evade detection.