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CISA: No Wider Federal Impact from Treasury Cyber Attack, Investigation Ongoing
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday said there are no indications that the cyber attack targeting the Treasury Department impacted other federal agencies. The agency said it's working closely with the Treasury Dep...
2025-01-07 14:13
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Moxa Alerts Users to High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Cellular and Secure Routers
Taiwan-based Moxa has warned of two security vulnerabilities impacting its cellular routers, secure routers, and network security appliances that could allow privilege escalation and command execution. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-20...
2025-01-07 13:14
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India Proposes Digital Data Rules with Tough Penalties and Cybersecurity Requirements
The Indian government has published a draft version of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules for public consultation. "Data fiduciaries must provide clear and accessible information about how personal data is processed, enabling informed co...
2025-01-06 19:56
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⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips [6 Jan]
Every tap, click, and swipe we make online shapes our digital lives, but it also opens doors—some we never meant to unlock. Extensions we trust, assistants we rely on, and even the codes we scan are turning into tools for attackers. The line between ...
2025-01-06 17:35
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From $22M in Ransom to +100M Stolen Records: 2025's All-Star SaaS Threat Actors to Watch
In 2024, cyber threats targeting SaaS surged, with 7,000 password attacks blocked per second (just in Entra ID)—a 75% increase from last year—and phishing attempts up by 58%, causing $3.5 billion in losses (source: Microsoft Digital Defense Report ...
2025-01-06 17:00
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FireScam Android Malware Poses as Telegram Premium to Steal Data and Control Devices
An Android information stealing malware named FireScam has been found masquerading as a premium version of the Telegram messaging app to steal data and maintain persistent remote control over compromised devices. "Disguised as a fake 'Telegram Premium'...
2025-01-06 16:40
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Russian-Speaking Attackers Target Ethereum Devs with Fake Hardhat npm Packages
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed several malicious packages on the npm registry that have been found impersonating the Nomic Foundation's Hardhat tool in order to steal sensitive data from developer systems. "By exploiting trust in open source p...
2025-01-06 14:58
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Cybercriminals Target Ethereum Developers with Fake Hardhat npm Packages
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed several malicious packages on the npm registry that have been found impersonating the Nomic Foundation's Hardhat tool in order to steal sensitive data from developer systems. "By exploiting trust in open source p...
2025-01-06 14:58
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Researchers Uncover Nuclei Vulnerability Enabling Signature Bypass and Code Execution
A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei, a widely-used open-source vulnerability scanner that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to bypass signature checks and potentially execute malicious code. Tra...
2025-01-04 19:59
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PLAYFULGHOST Delivered via Phishing and SEO Poisoning in Trojanized VPN Apps
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a wide range of information-gathering features like keylogging, screen capture, audio capture, remote shell, and file transfer/execution. The backdoor, according t...
2025-01-04 13:22
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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Beijing Cybersecurity Firm for State-Backed Hacking Campaigns
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday issued sanctions against a Beijing-based cybersecurity company known as Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated for orchestrating several cyber attacks against U.S. victi...
2025-01-04 13:00
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U.S. Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm for State-Backed Hacking Campaigns
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday issued sanctions against a Beijing-based cybersecurity company known as Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated for orchestrating several cyber attacks against U.S. victi...
2025-01-04 13:00
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New AI Jailbreak Method 'Bad Likert Judge' Boosts Attack Success Rates by Over 60%
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be used to get past a large language model's (LLM) safety guardrails and produce potentially harmful or malicious responses. The multi-turn (aka many-shot) attack strateg...
2025-01-03 16:44
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LDAPNightmare PoC Exploit Crashes LSASS and Reboots Windows Domain Controllers
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for a now-patched security flaw impacting Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) that could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The out-of-bounds reads vulnerability is tracked a...
2025-01-03 13:46
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Critical Deadline: Update Old .NET Domains Before January 7, 2025 to Avoid Service Disruption
Microsoft has announced that it's making an "unexpected change" to the way .NET installers and archives are distributed, requiring developers to update their production and DevOps infrastructure. "We expect that most users will not be directly affected...
2025-01-03 12:19
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Apple to Pay Siri Users $20 Per Device in Settlement Over Accidental Siri Privacy Violations
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that accused the iPhone maker of invading users' privacy using its voice-activated Siri assistant. The development was first reported by Reuters. The settlement applies to U....
2025-01-03 11:13
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Severe Security Flaws Patched in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Apps Web API
Details have emerged about three now-patched security vulnerabilities in Dynamics 365 and Power Apps Web API that could result in data exposure. The flaws, discovered by Melbourne-based cybersecurity company Stratus Security, have been addressed as of ...
2025-01-02 18:23
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Cross-Domain Attacks: A Growing Threat to Modern Security and How to Combat Them
In the past year, cross-domain attacks have gained prominence as an emerging tactic among adversaries. These operations exploit weak points across multiple domains – including endpoints, identity systems and cloud environments – so the adversary ca...
2025-01-02 16:23
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Malicious Obfuscated NPM Package Disguised as an Ethereum Tool Deploys Quasar RAT
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the npm package registry that masquerades as a library for detecting vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts but, in reality, drops an open-source remote access trojan called Quasar R...
2025-01-02 13:15
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Three Russian-German Nationals Charged with Espionage for Russian Secret Service
German prosecutors have charged three Russian-German nationals for acting as secret service agents for Russia. The individuals, named Dieter S., Alexander J., and Alex D., have been accused of working for a foreign secret service. Dieter S. is also all...
2025-01-02 12:55
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