HackerOne Apologizes To Ukrainian Hackers For Mistakenly Blocking Payouts
Chris Evans, the CISO of bug bounty platform HackerOne, apologized to Ukrainian hackers after erroneously blocking their bug bounty payouts following sanctions imposed on Russia and Belarus after Ukraine's invasion
Bijay Pokharel,
March 16, 2022
2 min read
Researchers Find New Destructive Wiper Malware In Ukraine
Slovakia-based cybersecurity firm ESET have have discovered a new type of destructive wiper malware affecting computers in Ukraine, making it at least the third strain of wiper to have hit Ukrainian systems since the Russian invasion began.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 15, 2022
1 min read
Irish Privacy Watchdog Sued For Not Probing ‘Massive Google Data Breach’
Irish High Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit against the country's privacy watchdog's alleged failure to fully investigate a complaint against Google for a massive data breach.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 15, 2022
2 min read
Ubisoft Confirms ‘Cyber Security Incident’ And Resets Staff Passwords
Ubisoft has confirmed that it suffered a 'cyber security incident' that caused disruption to its games, systems, and services.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 14, 2022
1 min read
Sodinokibi/REvil Ransomware Defendant Extradited To United States And Arraigned In Texas
A man charged with conducting ransomware attacks against multiple victims, including the July 2021 attack against Kaseya, made his initial appearance and was arraigned today in the Northern District of Texas.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 10, 2022
4 min read
Ransomware Gang Breaches 52 US Critical Infrastructure Organizations: FBI
FBI says the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has breached the networks of at least 52 organizations from multiple US critical infrastructure sectors.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 8, 2022
2 min read
Russia Discloses 17,000 IPs Allegedly DDosing Russian Organization
Russia shared a list of 17,576 IP addresses allegedly used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting Russian organizations and their networks.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 6, 2022
1 min read
Hackers Breach Russian Space Research Site And Leak Mission Files
Cyber-criminals linked to the Anonymous hacking group have broken into a website belonging to Russia's Space Research Institute (IKI) and leaked files that allegedly belong to the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 4, 2022
2 min read
Ukraine Creates ‘IT Army’ To Hack Russian Websites
Facing massive cyber-attacks from Russia-sponsored threat actors, Ukraine has now assembled an 'IT army' tasked with specific cyber challenges, which reached nearly 200k users on Telegram on Monday.
Bijay Pokharel,
February 28, 2022
2 min read
Iran-Backed Hackers Now Active To Deliver Ransomware Globally
Hackers linked to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security are exploiting bugs to conduct cyber espionage and other malicious attacks against organizations globally including in Asia, the US, and the UK, cyber and law authorities have warned.
Bijay Pokharel,
February 26, 2022
1 min read
Ukrainian Govt Websites Hit By Cyberattacks Amid Russia’s Military Operation
As Russia began military operations against Ukraine, key Ukrainian government websites were down early on Thursday as multiple cyberattacks hit the country.
Bijay Pokharel,
February 24, 2022
1 min read
Vulnerability in UpdraftPlus Allowed Subscribers To Download Sensitive Backups
This vulnerability allows any logged-in user, including subscriber-level users, to download backups made with the plugin. Backups are a treasure trove of sensitive information, and frequently include configuration files that can be used to access the site database as well as the contents of the...
Bijay Pokharel,
February 18, 2022
3 min read
Ukraine Hit By Massive Cyber Attack Amid Standoff With Russia
Ukraine's Ministry of Defence has suffered a major cyberattack that prevented users from accessing its website, amid heightened tensions with Russia.
Bijay Pokharel,
February 16, 2022
2 min read
US State Sues Meta Over Facebook Facial Recognition Tech
The US state of Texas has sued Meta for using its facial recognition technology without users' consent, seeking financial damages.
Bijay Pokharel,
February 15, 2022
1 min read
33 Critical Bugs Found In Wearable Devices For Remote Patient Monitoring
The most commonly used protocol for transferring data from wearable devices used for remote patient monitoring contained 33 vulnerabilities, including 19 "critical vulnerabilities" in 2021 alone, according to a report released on Monday.
Bijay Pokharel,
February 14, 2022
2 min read
Unauthenticated SQL Injection Vulnerability Patched In WordPress Statistics Plugin
This vulnerability made it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries by appending them to an existing SQL query.
Bijay Pokharel,
February 14, 2022
4 min read
Americans Lost $547 Million To Romance Scams In 2021: FTC
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said that Americans reported record high losses of $547 million to romance scams in 2021, up almost 80% compared to 2020 and over six times compared to losses reported in 2017.
Bijay Pokharel,
February 11, 2022
3 min read
Avast Releases Free Decryptor For TargetCompany Ransomware Victims
Avast has released a decryption utility to help TargetCompany ransomware victims recover their files for free.
Bijay Pokharel,
February 8, 2022
2 min read
Hackers Hit Fortune 500 Service Provider, Data Of Over 500k People Leaked
Morley Companies which provides services to several Fortune 500 companies, has admitted it was hit with a ransomware attack that led to the leak of sensitive information for more than 500,000 people.
Bijay Pokharel,
February 6, 2022
1 min read
Unauthenticated XSS Vulnerability Patched In HTML Email Template Designer Plugin
This flaw made it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious JavaScript that would execute whenever a site administrator accessed the template editor. This vulnerability would also allow them to modify the email template to contain arbitrary data that could be used to perform...
Bijay Pokharel,
February 1, 2022
2 min read
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