Alexander Martin reports: Two British teenagers charged with Computer Misuse Act offenses over a cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) last year pleaded not guilty during a court appearance on Friday. Thalha Jubair, 19, and Owen Flowers, 18, were arrested at their homes in East London and Walsall, respectively, by officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA)…
Cybersecurity researchers have found that bad actors are continuing to have success by spoofing sender email addresses as part of various malspam campaigns. Faking the sender address of an email is widely seen as an attempt to make the digital missive more legitimate and get past security mechanisms that could otherwise flag it as malicious….
Linsey Lewis reports: OYO Hotel & Casino Las Vegas was hit by a cyberattack sometime in early January, allegedly exposing the personal information of more than 4,700 people, according to documents provided by authorities in Maine. OYO Hotel and Casino, located just off the Las Vegas Strip on Tropical Avenue near Koval Lane and owned……
Law enforcement authorities have announced that they tracked down the customers of the SmokeLoader malware and detained at least five individuals. “In a coordinated series of actions, customers of the Smokeloader pay-per-install botnet, operated by the actor known as ‘Superstar,’ faced consequences such as arrests, house searches, arrest warrants or ‘knock and talks,’” Europol said…
Waqas reports: TeleMessage SGNL, a made-in-Israel clone of the Signal app used by US government agencies and regulated businesses, has been found running with an outdated configuration that exposes sensitive internal data to the internet, no login required. The main cause of the problem is how some deployments of TeleMessage SGNL are using older versions…
Alexander Martin reports: The British government sanctioned 18 Russian military intelligence officers on Friday, alleging their units were responsible for cyber reconnaissance operations including those leading to hundreds of murders through the targeting of civilians in Ukraine. Three units of the GRU have been sanctioned, alongside officers whom the British authorities said were responsible for…
An advanced persistent threat (APT) known as WIRTE has been attributed to attacks targeting government and diplomatic entities across the Middle East with a previously undocumented malware suite dubbed AshTag since 2020. Palo Alto Networks is tracking the activity cluster under the name Ashen Lepus. Artifacts uploaded to the VirusTotal platform show that the threat…
