Sudbury.com reports: Data acquired by unauthorized individuals during Rainbow District School Board’s recent cyber incident “was deleted and has not been shared,” according to an update on the situation from the school board. The school board also said in the Feb. 28 statement that three weeks after the cyber incident, which meant internet was unavailable…
Chinese hackers remotely accessed US Treasury Department workstations after compromising a cloud-based service operated by BeyondTrust. The post Chinese Hackers Accessed US Treasury Workstations in ‘Major’ Cybersecurity Incident appeared first on SecurityWeek.
When assessing an organization’s external attack surface, encryption-related issues (especially SSL misconfigurations) receive special attention. Why? Their widespread use, configuration complexity, and visibility to attackers as well as users make them more likely to be exploited. This highlights how important your SSL configurations are in maintaining your web application security and
The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29 has been linked to an advanced phishing campaign that’s targeting diplomatic entities across Europe with a new variant of WINELOADER and a previously unreported malware loader codenamed GRAPELOADER. “While the improved WINELOADER variant is still a modular backdoor used in later stages, GRAPELOADER is a newly observed…
Users who are on the lookout for popular games were lured into downloading trojanized installers that led to the deployment of a cryptocurrency miner on compromised Windows hosts. The large-scale activity has been codenamed StaryDobry by Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which first detected it on December 31, 2024. It lasted for a month. Targets of…
Infrastructure Problems Blamed; Users Appear to Move to Similar FlowerStorm ServiceAs the end of the year approaches, it’s out with the old and in with the new as researchers report that Rockstar 2FA, which once facilitated prolific phishing-as-a-service hits, has crashed and burned, apparently leading many one-time users to move to rival FlowerStorm.
Google has released out-of-band fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser for Windows that it said has been exploited in the wild as part of attacks targeting organizations in Russia. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-2783, has been described as a case of “incorrect handle provided in unspecified circumstances in Mojo on…
