Security News

Empire Market owners charged for enabling $430M in dark web transactions
2024-06-17 18:47

Two men have been charged in a Chicago federal court for operating "Empire Market," a dark web marketplace that facilitated over $430 million in illegal transactions between February 2018 and August 2020. Empire Market was a popular dark web marketplace that sold illegal drugs, chemicals, jewelry, credit card numbers, counterfeit money bills, malware, and other illicit goods, offering payment options including Monero, Litecoin, and Bitcoin.

Blackbaud has to cough up a few million dollars more over 2020 ransomware attack
2024-06-17 17:45

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Hackers use F5 BIG-IP malware to stealthily steal data for years
2024-06-17 17:37

A group of suspected Chinese cyberespionage actors named 'Velvet Ant' are deploying custom malware on F5 BIG-IP appliances to gain a persistent connection to the internal network and steal data. Using the compromised F5 BIG-IP devices, the threat actors could stealthily steal sensitive customer and financial information from the company for three years without being detected.

Managing Cloud Security Posture: Continuous Monitoring and Hardening for Visibility and Compliance
2024-06-17 16:00

Cloud adoption is not slowing down, and neither is the cloud threat landscape. Despite delivering many goodies, API endpoints hosted in the cloud can be susceptible to at least 12 security issues.

ASUS Patches Critical Authentication Bypass Flaw in Multiple Router Models
2024-06-17 14:39

ASUS has shipped software updates to address a critical security flaw impacting its routers that could be exploited by malicious actors to bypass authentication. Tracked as CVE-2024-3080, the...

Alleged Scattered Spider sim-swapper arrested in Spain
2024-06-17 14:16

A 22-year-old British national allegedly linked to the Scattered Spider hacking group and responsible for attacks on 45 U.S. companies has been arrested in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Though the authorities have not yet shared details about the threat group the suspect is associated with, VX-Underground alleges without substantiating that he is "Tyler," a SIM swapping specialist from the notorious Scattered Spider group.

Malware peddlers love this one social engineering trick!
2024-06-17 13:14

Attackers are increasingly using a clever social engineering technique to get users to install malware, Proofpoint researchers are warning. Getting users to install malware on their computers was always a matter of finding the right lure and bypassing security protections.

Cops cuff 22-year-old Brit suspected of being Scattered Spider leader
2024-06-17 13:00

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China-Linked Hackers Infiltrate East Asian Firm for 3 Years Using F5 Devices
2024-06-17 11:59

A suspected China-nexus cyber espionage actor has been attributed as behind a prolonged attack against an unnamed organization located in East Asia for a period of about three years, with the...

What is DevSecOps and Why is it Essential for Secure Software Delivery?
2024-06-17 11:26

Traditional application security practices are not effective in the modern DevOps world. When security scans are run only at the end of the software delivery lifecycle (either right before or...