Category: CYBER SECURITY

A British man believed to be a key figure behind the Scattered Spider cybercrime group has admitted guilt in a United States court, facing serious charges tied to a large-scale hacking and cryptocurrency theft operation.

Cybercriminals are exploiting Apple’s account notification system to send phishing emails that appear completely legitimate, making it harder for users to spot the scam.

Hackers have already managed to break into at least one organization by exploiting newly exposed Windows vulnerabilities that were published online by a frustrated security researcher, according to findings from cybersecurity firm Huntress.

European law enforcement agencies have contacted more than 75,000 people suspected of being involved in launching cyberattacks, as part of a large-scale crackdown on DDoS-for-hire services.

A major cybersecurity incident has put millions of McGraw Hill users at risk after the ShinyHunters extortion group leaked data tied to 13.5 million accounts.

A serious security vulnerability in Nginx UI is now being actively exploited, allowing attackers to take full control of servers without needing any authentication.

More than 30 WordPress plugins from the EssentialPlugin package have been compromised with malicious code that gives attackers unauthorized access to websites using them.

Security researchers have uncovered a large-scale campaign involving more than 100 malicious extensions listed on the official Chrome Web Store, raising concerns about user safety.

Education giant McGraw-Hill has confirmed that hackers gained unauthorized access to a limited set of its data after exploiting a misconfiguration in Salesforce.

Dozens of WordPress plug-ins have been taken offline after a hidden backdoor was discovered inside them, raising serious concerns about a large-scale supply chain attack.

Dutch fitness chain Basic-Fit has revealed that hackers gained unauthorized access to its systems, exposing personal data belonging to roughly one million members across Europe.

Adobe has released an emergency security update for Acrobat Reader to fix a serious vulnerability that has been actively exploited in zero-day attacks since at least December.

Rockstar Games has confirmed a data breach following claims by the ShinyHunters extortion group, which says it has leaked a large dataset tied to the company.

Booking.com has confirmed that hackers may have gained access to customer data, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and booking information.

OpenAI has taken action after a security breach involving the Axios HTTP library led to potential risks for its macOS applications.

Rockstar has confirmed that some of its data was exposed after a security breach involving a third-party service provider.

OpenAI has disclosed a security issue involving a third-party developer tool called Axios, saying it is taking precautionary steps to protect the system that verifies its macOS applications as legitimate.

A major international law enforcement operation led by the UK’s National Crime Agency has uncovered more than 20,000 victims of cryptocurrency fraud spread across Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Hackers have compromised the update system of the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla, pushing a malicious update that installs multiple backdoors on affected websites.

Attackers have been quietly taking advantage of a dangerous security flaw in Adobe Reader by using specially crafted PDF files, and this activity has been going on since at least December.