Latest News: Cybersecurity

A new macOS stealer malware is being sold to cybercriminals via the messaging service Telegram for the steep price of $1000. The malware is a 64-bit Go-based program designed to target macOS systems specifically. Its main purpose is to steal sensitive information, such as keychain passwords, local

Netwrix, the cybersecurity solutions provider, released its annual worldwide 2023 Hybrid Security Trends Report. According to the report, 68% of organizations faced a cyberattack within the last year. Among them, 16% estimated that the financial damage was at least $50,000, 40% faced unplanned

Russian hacking group APT28 has been exploiting a six-year-old vulnerability in Cisco routers to deploy malware and carry out surveillance on both individuals and organizations in the United States, Europe, and Ukraine. The state-sponsored group has been using an old vulnerability,

GuidePoint Security has released the GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team’s (GRIT) Q1 2023 Ransomware Report. Within it, GRIT tracked 849 publicly posted ransomware victims claimed by 29 different threat groups in Q1 2023, which is a 25% increase compared to Q4 2022. Manufacturing,

NCR Global, the American software and technology company, has suffered an outage of its Aloha point-of-sale (POS) platform across several restaurants. After a few days of radio silence, NCR disclosed the outage was caused by a ransomware attack on a data center responsible for powering the service.

Spyware from Israeli cyber mercenary company QuaDream has been used to target journalists, political opposition figures, and advocacy organizations in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, according to research published by Microsoft and internet watchdog Citizen Lab. The spyware was

Cybercriminals are hacking websites to show fake Google Chrome errors that push users to install a malicious file to update. Initiated in November 2022, this campaign's intensity increased after February 2023, as NTT security analyst Rintaro Koike noted. The operation has since broadened its scope

Microsoft’s April 2023 Patch Tuesday released several security updates, which included a patch for a zero-day vulnerability affecting all supported Windows versions. This vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) could give hackers access to an unpatched system. Microsoft confirmed

The UK's national law enforcement agency responsible for managing criminal record information, the Criminal Records Office (ACRO), has confirmed that a cyber security incident has been the cause of its online portal issues since March 21st. After delaying issuing a comment on the matter, ACRO

The FBI, in cooperation with international law enforcement agencies, have successfully seized Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace, in an operation dubbed "Operation Cookie Monster". The operation took place on April 4th, involving law enforcement agencies from the United States,