Category: CYBER SECURITY

Two WordPress plugins integral to the premium WPLMS theme, a popular Learning Management System (LMS) solution with over 28,000 sales, have been found to contain over a dozen critical vulnerabilities.

Adobe has rolled out urgent security updates to address a critical vulnerability in its ColdFusion software.

Crypto criminals have stolen over $1.71 billion worth of cryptos this year, pushing total thefts to shocking levels at $12.7 billion across more than 1,000 heists to date, data showed on Monday.

Officials said on Sunday that South Korea and the United States are conducting joint research to strengthen protection against cryptocurrency heist attempts amid growing concerns of such attacks by North Korea-linked hackers.

NSO Group, the maker of the infamous Pegasus spyware, has been held liable in a lawsuit filed by Meta’s WhatsApp, as reported by The Record.

Ascension, one of the largest private healthcare systems in the U.S., is alerting nearly 5.6 million patients and employees that their personal and health data were stolen in a cyberattack linked to the Black Basta ransomware group in May.

The U.S. government has charged a 51-year-old dual citizen of Russia and Israel, Rostislav Panev, with allegedly creating and maintaining the code for LockBit ransomware.

London-based tech firm Builder.ai, a leader in human-assisted AI for app development, has recently come under scrutiny after a significant data breach exposed over 3 million records totaling 1.29 TB.

The U.S. government is weighing a potential ban on TP-Link routers starting next year, pending the results of ongoing investigations into their alleged involvement in cyberattacks that could pose national security risks.

Mark Sokolovsky, a Ukrainian national, has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in running the Raccoon Stealer malware operation, a scheme that enabled cybercrime on a massive scale.

Cyberattacks utilizing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology as a tool are expected to grow next year, a government report showed on Wednesday.

Three founders of the fraudulent scheme 8 Figure Dream Lifestyle (8FDL) have been sentenced for wire fraud conspiracy after defrauding over 2,800 victims.

Nigeria's anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), arrested 792 people in a raid on December 10.

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) and its El Paso branch recently experienced a significant cyberattack that disrupted critical systems and compromised sensitive data belonging to 1.4 million patients.

Serbian authorities are reportedly hacking into the phones of journalists and activists using mobile forensic tools and spyware, according to a recent report by Amnesty International.

The notorious Clop ransomware gang has admitted responsibility for the recent wave of data theft attacks targeting Cleo's managed file transfer systems.

A cybercriminal group MUT-1244 has stolen over 390,000 WordPress credentials in a massive, year-long operation targeting other hackers using a rigged WordPress credentials checker.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sounded the alarm over a sharp rise in "task scams," deceptive schemes masquerading as easy online jobs but designed to steal money from unsuspecting victims.

These attacks, characterized by massive login attempts, are part of a broader trend targeting edge networking devices and cloud platforms.

The U.S. State Department has announced a reward of up to $5 million for information that could dismantle North Korea’s illegal IT work schemes.