In an updated statement, the company attributed a recently announced incident to APT29, also known as Cozy Bear, BlueBravo and Midnight Blizzard. The group, allegedly housed within Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), has been implicated in several of the most consequential hacks of the last decade —including the 2020 SolarWinds hack and the 2016 attack on the Democratic National Committee.
Unknown threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched security flaw in Microsoft MSHTML to deliver a surveillance tool called MerkSpy as part of a campaign primarily targeting users in Canada, India, Poland, and the U.S.
Microsoft has discovered and disclosed two significant vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation’s PanelView Plus devices. These vulnerabilities could be remotely exploited by unauthenticated attackers, enabling them to execute remote code and initiate denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
A threat actor identified as Alderson1337 has surfaced on BreachForums offering to sell an exploit designed to target ‘npm’ accounts through a critical account takeover vulnerability. ‘npm’ stands as a pivotal package manager for JavaScript, managed by npm, Inc., a subsidiary of GitHub.
Modern CPUs from Intel, including Raptor Lake and Alder Lake, have been found vulnerable to a new side-channel attack that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from the processors.
Researchers say they have discovered a new ransomware group named Volcano Demon that has carried out at least two successful attacks in the past two weeks.
The loader-as-a-service (LaaS) known as FakeBat has become one of the most widespread loader malware families distributed using the drive-by download technique this year, findings from Sekoia reveal.
This week, the SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team investigated a sample of Orcinius malware. This is a multi-stage trojan that is using Dropbox and Google Docs to download second-stage payloads and stay updated.
SpaceX’s Starlink internet-from-space service is already available for boats, planes, vanlifers, Amazonian villages and rural homes in over 75 countries — now it’s coming to backpackers.
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