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Retail chain Hot Topic hit by new credential stuffing attacks
2024-03-28 19:04

American retailer Hot Topic disclosed that two waves of credential stuffing attacks in November exposed affected customers' personal information and partial payment data. The Hot Topic fast-fashion chain has over 10,000 employees in more than 630 store locations across the U.S. and Canada, the company's headquarters, and two distribution centers.

PyPI suspends new user registration to block malware campaign
2024-03-28 18:03

The Python Package Index has temporarily suspended user registration and the creation of new projects to deal with an ongoing malware campaign. PyPI is an index for Python projects that helps developers find and install Python packages.

JetBrains keeps mum on 26 'security problems' fixed after Rapid7 spat
2024-03-28 17:26

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Linux Version of DinodasRAT Spotted in Cyber Attacks Across Several Countries
2024-03-28 17:02

A Linux version of a multi-platform backdoor called DinodasRAT has been detected in the wild targeting China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, new findings from Kaspersky reveal. DinodasRAT, also...

Finland Blames Chinese Hacking Group APT31 for Parliament Cyber Attack
2024-03-28 16:50

The Police of Finland (aka Poliisi) has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country's Parliament in 2020. The intrusion,...

Cisco warns of password-spraying attacks targeting VPN services
2024-03-28 16:37

Cisco has shared a set of recommendations for customers to mitigate password-spraying attacks that have been targeting Remote Access VPN services configured on Cisco Secure Firewall devices. The company says that the attacks have also been targeting other remote access VPN services and appear to be part of reconnaissance activity.

FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison
2024-03-28 16:19

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Nvidia's newborn ChatRTX bot patched for security bugs
2024-03-28 15:33

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Zero-day exploitation surged in 2023, Google finds
2024-03-28 15:11

2023 saw attackers increasingly focusing on the discovery and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in third-party libraries and drivers, as they can affect multiple products and effectively offer more possibilities for attack. Another interesting conclusion from Google's recent rundown of the 97 zero-days exploited in-the-wild in 2023 is that there's a notable increase in targeting enterprise-specific technologies.

New ZenHammer Attack Bypasses RowHammer Defenses on AMD CPUs
2024-03-28 14:44

Cybersecurity researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a new variant of the RowHammer DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) attack that, for the first time, successfully works against AMD Zen 2...