Attackers evolve strategies to outmaneuver security teams

Attackers are expected to broaden their targeting strategy beyond regulated verticals such as financial services and healthcare. Large corporations (41%) will be the top targeted sector for cyberattacks in 2023, favored over financial institutions (36%…

Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) shut down the mill after a ransomware attack

The Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) was hit with a ransomware attack that impacted its operations. The Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) announced to have suffered a ransomware attack late on December 27, 2022, which impacted its operation.  Copper Mountain’s flagship asset is the 75% owned Copper Mountain mine located in southern British Columbia near […]

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BitRAT campaign relies on stolen sensitive bank data as a lure

Experts warn of a new malware campaign using sensitive information stolen from a bank as a lure to spread the remote access trojan BitRAT. Qualys experts spotted a new malware campaign spreading a remote access trojan called BitRAT using sensitive information stolen from a bank as a lure in phishing messages. BitRAT is a relatively new […]

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Does Volvo Cars suffer a new data breach?

A post published on a popular hacking forum claims Volvo Cars has suffered a new data breach, alleging stolen data available for sale. French cybersecurity Anis Haboubi yesterday first noticed that a threat actor was attempting to sell data allegedly stolen from Volvo Cars on a popular hacking forum. A member of the forum, who […]

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Ransomware attacks hit 105 US local governments in 2022

In 2022, ransomware attacks targeted 105 state or municipal governments or agencies in the US, reads a report published by Emsisoft. According to the “The State of Ransomware in the US: Report and Statistics 2022” report published by Emsisoft, the number of ransomware attacks against government, education and healthcare sector organizations is quite similar to […]

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SecurityAffairs Top 10 cybersecurity posts of 2022

These are the most-read cybersecurity articles that have been published by SecurtiyAffairs in 2022. 1 – Russia-linked actors may be behind an explosion at a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas Russian threat actors may be behind the explosion at a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas, the incident took place on June 8. 2 […]

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PyTorch compromised to demonstrate dependency confusion attack on Python environments

Threat actors compromised the PyTorch Machine Learning Framework by adding a malicious dependency. The maintainers of the PyTorch package warn of a supply chain attack. Users who have installed PyTorch-nightly on Linux via pip between December 25, 2022 and December 30, 2022, to uninstall it and use the latest binaries. “If you installed PyTorch-nightly on […]

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Pro-Russia cyberattacks aim at destabilizing Poland, security agency warns

Poland security agency warns pro-Russian hackers that are continuously targeting the state since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, Poland has been a constant target of cyber attacks conducted by pro-Russian hackers, Poland’s security agency warns. The attacks aimed at almost any entity in Poland, including […]

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Linux Malware Exploit Over 30 Vulnerabilities in WordPress Themes & Plugins

In an attempt to inject malicious JavaScript into WordPress plugins and themes that are outdated, a previously detected Linux malware that is unknown has been found exploiting 30 vulnerabilities. The targeted website is injected with malicious JavaScript code if any outdated versions of the vulnerable add-ons are used on the site, as they lack crucial […]

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