Category: CYBER SECURITY

The University of Manchester finally confirmed that attackers behind a cyberattack disclosed in early June had stolen data belonging to alums and current students.

Joseph James O'Connor, one of the hackers responsible for the Twitter hack of 2020, was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday.

A Nigerian national, who was previously extradited to the United States from the United Kingdom, was sentenced to 82 months in prison on June 21, 2023, for his role in a transnational inheritance fraud scheme. 

Discord is being used in hidden communities and chat rooms by some adults to groom children before abducting them, trading child sexual exploitation material (CSAM) and extorting minors whom they trick into sending nude images, the media reported.

China-linked APT groups, including Mustang Panda and UNC4191, are the most active in targeting nation-states, producing nearly 79 percent of all detected threat activity in the first quarter of 2023, a new report showed on Wednesday.

A Tesla software hacker discovered a secret driver mode named after the company's CEO, Elon Musk, that allows for hands-free driving in Tesla vehicles.

The threat actors claim to have stolen 7 TB of data from the University of Manchester during a June 6th cyberattack.

The exposed documents within the database comprised various critical records, such as vehicle registrations, insurance cards, driver's licenses, and more.

This vulnerability makes it possible for an attacker to gain access to the accounts of users who have abandoned their carts, who are typically customers but can extend to other high-level users when the right conditions are met.

This malware is presently being actively distributed through explicit bait, specifically targeting OnlyFans pages and other adult content.

In a "Reddit Files" post on the gang's data leak site, the threat actors claim to have stolen 80 GB of compressed data from the company during the attack and now plan on leaking the data.

Security researchers have used the video camera of an iPhone 13 Pro Max to steal a cryptographic key from a Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone.

The U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice program announced up to a $10 million bounty yesterday for information linking the Clop ransomware attacks to a foreign government.

President Joe Biden's administration has confirmed that several US federal agencies have been hit by a cyber attack, apparently executed by Russia-linked ransomware group Clop, which exploited a critical security vulnerability in a popular corporate file transfer tool.

As part of an ongoing initiative to combat cybercrime, the Justice Department has announced the court-authorized seizure of 13 internet domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services. This marks the third wave of U.S. law enforcement actions against prominent booter services that enable paying users to launch...

Researchers have observed a surge of malware written for the Android platform that is attempting to impersonate the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT application to target smartphone users, a new report showed on Friday.

Security researchers have said that China-backed hackers are likely behind the mass exploitation of a recently discovered security flaw in Barracuda Networks' email security gear, allowing attackers to remotely gain access to affected devices.

The Russia-linked ransomware group Clop, which exploited a critical security vulnerability in a popular corporate file transfer tool, has listed several other victims of its mass hack, which also include banks and universities, apart from federal government agencies.

"Several" US federal government agencies were targeted on Thursday in a major global cyberattack, which takes advantage of a weakness in widely-used software, media reports said.