New Vulnerabilities Allow Hackers to Crash Siemens PLCs
Independent ICS security researcher Gao Jian recently discovered new vulnerabilities which can allow hackers to remotely crash Siemens PLCs.
The vulnerabilities have been reported...
Google Cloud Gets Virtual Machine Threat Detection to Help Detect Crypto Mining
Google announced the public preview of a tool which helps identify threats within virtual machines running on its Google Cloud infrastructure.
VMTD to Help Identify...
Oil Port Terminal Operations Disrupted by Ransomware Attack
The ransomware attack affected dozens of terminals, oil storage and transport around the world, including Oiltanking in Germany, SEA-Invest in Belgium and Evos in...
Hacker Took Down the Internet in North Korea
An American hacker named P4x says he was behind a series of outages in North Korea's Internet a few weeks ago.
P4x told Wired...
$320 Million Stolen from Crypto Trading Platform
By exploiting a vulnerability in the software of a crypto trading platform, hackers stole 320 million in cryptocurrencies.
Wormhole Portal is a web-based application that...
Hackers Use PowerPoint Files to Deliver Malicious Files
A little-known PowerPoint add-on, the .ppam file, has been used by hackers to hide and deliver malicious files.
Security researchers from Avanan, observed that .ppam...
Cisco patched 15 Vulnerabilities in Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers
On February 2, Cisco published an advisory for 15 vulnerabilities in its Small Business RV Series Routers. Three of the 15 vulnerabilities listed in...
Developers Accidentally Turned Off CSRF Protection in Popular PHP Framework
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Developers of the popular Symfony PHP framework have reversed a recent change that accidentally turned off protection against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
Affected...
Actor’s Twitter Account Hacked and Used to Spam on NFT Giveaways
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On Thursday a verified twitter profile of Siobhan McSweeney, a well known Irish actor, was hacked and was used to spam on NFT giveaways....
North Korean APT Spreading Malware Through Spear Phishing Attacks
The "Lazarous Group", a North Korean APT conducted a spear phishing attack, weaponized with malicious documents that try to lure targets into clicking by...
Tenable: Over 40 Billion Records Exposed in 2021
Over 40 billion records were exposed in cyber incidents during 2021, up nearly 78% from 2020, according to research from Tenable.
Increase of Breach Incidents
Based...
Hackers Demand Ransom for Hijacked Instagram Accounts
Secureworks has identified a phishing campaign that hijacks corporate Instagram accounts, as well as accounts of individual influencers who have a large number of...
