In September 2023, FortiGuard Labs’ vigilant team uncovered a significant development in the IZ1H9 Mirai-based DDoS campaign. This campaign, known for its aggressive tactics, had strengthened its arsenal with a formidable array of thirteen …
76% of cybersecurity professionals believe the world is very close to encountering malicious AI that can bypass most known cybersecurity measures, according to Enea. 26% see this happening within the next year, and 50% in the next 5 years. Worries abou…
The median dwell time in ransomware engagements dropped to just under 24 hours from 4.5 days in the previous year and 5.5 days in the year before that, according to SecureWorks. In 10% of cases, ransomware was even deployed within five hours of initial…
A surge of critical vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits has made for a very busy week in IT security, affecting a range of tech giants like Atlassian, Cisco, Apple, Arm, Qualcomm and Microsoft. Among the issues in the last week, Android and Arm faced actively exploited vulnerabilities in GPU drivers. Microsoft released urgent patches for Edge, […]
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A threat actor has leaked the source code for the first version of the HelloKitty ransomware on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum. Cybersecurity researchers 3xp0rt reported that a threat actor that goes online with the moniker ‘kapuchin0’ (and also uses the alias Gookee) has leaked the source code of the HelloKitty ransomware on the XSS forum. kapuchin0 claims […]
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September 2023’s Most Wanted Malware: Remcos Wreaks Havoc in Colombia and Formbook Takes Top Spot after Qbot Shutdown, reveals Check Point.
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Flagstar Bank announced a data breach suffered by a third-party service provider exposed the personal information of over 800,000 US customers. Flagstar Bank is warning 837,390 US customers that their personal information was exposed after threat actors breached the third-party service provider Fiserv. Flagstar Bank is an American commercial bank headquartered in Troy, Michigan, it is a […]
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A cyber espionage campaign has been discovered in which threat actors use a variant of the HyperBro loader along with a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) lure in order to target semiconductor industries in regions like Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Si…
Researchers warn that more than 70,000 Android smartphones, CTV boxes, and tablets were shipped with backdoored firmware as part of BADBOX network. Cybersecurity researchers at Human Security discovered a global network of consumer products, dubbed BADBOX, with firmware backdoors installed and sold through a compromised hardware supply chain. The experts reported that at least 74,000 […]
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The Android TV box you recently purchased may be riddled with harmful backdoors.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Android TV Boxes Infected with Backdoors, Compromising Home Networks