October Patch Tuesday beats January ’25 record
Microsoft throws a farewell party for Win10, Office 2016, and Office 2019… a very big party
Threat actors’ leak site unreachable due to DoS attack; DataBreaches given exclusive preview of leak Marc Fortier reports: The hackers behind a major cyberattack that hit the State of Rhode Island’s online system for delivering health and human service benefits have released some residents’ files to a site on the dark web, state officials announced Monday. “Unfortunately,…
Jonathan Greig reports: The Anchorage Police Department said it took a range of actions to address a recent cyberattack on one of its technology service providers. A police department spokesperson told Recorded Future News that the incident relates to a cyberattack involving data migration firm Whitebox Technologies, which alerted the police department of a security……
A massive ad fraud and click fraud operation dubbed SlopAds ran a cluster of 224 apps, collectively attracting 38 million downloads across 228 countries and territories. “These apps deliver their fraud payload using steganography and create hidden WebViews to navigate to threat actor-owned cashout sites, generating fraudulent ad impressions and clicks,” HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence…
Cybercriminals associated with a financially motivated group known as GoldFactory have been observed staging a fresh round of attacks targeting mobile users in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam by impersonating government services. The activity, observed since October 2024, involves distributing modified banking applications that act as a conduit for Android malware, Group-IB said in a technical
Two security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in SinoTrack GPS devices that could be exploited to control certain remote functions on connected vehicles and even track their locations. “Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to access device profiles without authorization through the common web management interface,” the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
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