Cyber Attack

Cyber attack compromised Indonesia’s national data center, causing trouble with immigration checks at airports. Attacker demanded an $8 million ransom, Reuters reported. The attack caused problems for government services, especially at airports, with long lines at immigration desks. The communications ministry said that automated passport machines are now working. Minister …

DataDog Security Labs found a worrying campaign targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS), showing a new wave of harmful activity aimed at compromising important cloud resources. The attackers are using various methods, focusing on finding and possibly stealing data from AWS Secrets Manager, S3 buckets, and S3 Glacier vaults. Between May …

In late 2023, Sygnia researchers investigated a cyber incident involving a major organization that was reportedly caused by a threat group known as ‘Velvet Ant.’ The cyberspies deployed custom malware on F5 BIG-IP appliances to gain persistent access to the internal network of the target organization and steal sensitive data. …

A threat actor has announced selling a 0day vulnerability for Dahua cameras. The bad actor claimed this vulnerability supposedly works with all versions of the device. The threat actor announced the vulnerability allowed unrestricted access and control of the camera and describing it as a Remote Code Execution (RCE) exploit. …

CISA warned that criminals are pretending to be its employees in phone calls in order to trick people into sending them money. “The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of recent impersonation scammers claiming to represent the agency,” CISA warned on Wednesday. “As a reminder, CISA staff will …

The Dutch military security service MIVD recently revealed that a cyber espionage campaign, which was initially mentioned in February, managed to gain access to around 20,000 Fortigate-secured systems between 2022 and 2023. It is now believed that this campaign “appears to be much more extensive than previously known”. The Nationaal Cyber Security …

By 2028, there will be over 25 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Attackers are increasingly targeting various devices, operating systems, and firmware to gain access. Forescout Technologies, a cybersecurity leader, has released a report called “The Riskiest Connected Devices in 2024.” The report is based on data from 19 million …

GhostR hacker claimed to hack Absolute Telecom PTE Ltd, a Singapore-based telecom company and stole 34 gigabytes of data including corporate information, accounting records, sales data, customer details, credit card information, and call records. In a post the bad actor claimed they infiltrated and compromised the company’s server networks on …

Bangladeshi online market place Travela.xyz for homestays and experiences, suffered a major data breach on June 9, 2024. The leaked information, found on a dark web hacking forum, exposed the personal data of the company’s hosts. The leaked data, which includes user information such as Host ID, First Name, Last …

The cybercriminal “kiberphant0m” offer to sell an Asian telecom company data over 900GB on the underground forum called ‘xssforums’. The hacker offer to sell full root access and other administrative login credentials. Cloudsek reported, “The breach reportedly involves a telecom provider based in Thailand, marking the third successful attack by …