Security News

Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did
2025-01-01 13:30

2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor Opinion Happy new year! Tradition says that this is when we boldly look forward to what may happen in the 12 months to come. Do you really want to know that?...

New "DoubleClickjacking" Exploit Bypasses Clickjacking Protections on Major Websites
2025-01-01 13:24

Threat hunters have disclosed a new "widespread timing-based vulnerability class" that leverages a double-click sequence to facilitate clickjacking attacks and account takeovers in almost all...

Iranian and Russian Entities Sanctioned for Election Interference Using AI and Cyber Tactics
2025-01-01 09:59

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday leveled sanctions against two entities in Iran and Russia for their attempts to interfere with the November 2024...

US Army soldier who allegedly stole Trump's AT&T call logs arrested
2025-01-01 08:32

Brings the arrest count related to the Snowflake hacks to 3 A US Army soldier has been arrested in Texas after being indicted on two counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records information. …

New details reveal how hackers hijacked 35 Google Chrome extensions
2024-12-31 18:54

New details have emerged about a phishing campaign targeting Chrome browser extension developers that led to the compromise of at least thirty-five extensions to inject data-stealing code,...

US Treasury Department outs the blast radius of BeyondTrust's key leak
2024-12-31 15:30

Data pilfered as miscreants roamed affected workstations The US Department of the Treasury has admitted that miscreants were in its systems, accessing documents in what has been called a "major incident."…

Over 3.1 million fake "stars" on GitHub projects used to boost rankings
2024-12-31 15:13

GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories to appear more popular, helping them reach more unsuspecting...

China's cyber intrusions took a sinister turn in 2024
2024-12-31 12:15

From targeted espionage to pre-positioning - not that they are mutually exclusive The Chinese government's intrusions into America's telecommunications and other critical infrastructure networks...

Gift Card Fraud
2024-12-31 12:02

It’s becoming an organized crime tactic: Card draining is when criminals remove gift cards from a store display, open them in a separate location, and either record the card numbers and PINs or...

New U.S. DoJ Rule Halts Bulk Data Transfers to Adversarial Nations to Protect Privacy
2024-12-31 11:26

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has issued a final rule carrying out Executive Order (EO) 14117, which prevents mass transfer of citizens' personal data to countries of concern such as China...