Submarine cable damage in the Red Sea is causing problems for telecommunications networks. Providers need to reroute a significant amount of traffic between Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, which includes internet traffic. Cables belonging to four major telecoms networks have been “cut” causing “significant” disruption to communications networks in …
Read More »LockBit Reestablishes Dark Web Leak Site: Report
The LockBit ransomware group reactivated a hidden website on the dark web. They posted a long message written by their leader, who vowed not to retreat from the criminal underground world. The LockBit leader says the FBI used a vulnerability in PHP to hack their servers. They didn’t fix it …
Read More »0/1 click Facebook account takeover; Nepalis talent rewarded
Meta ranked Nepal’s cyber security researcher Samip Aryal first in the White Hack (Hall of Fame) for finding a vulnerability that could hack accounts with one click. This happened on Friday. Samip Aryal informed a Nepali media outlet about discovering a vulnerability in Facebook that could allow for an ‘account …
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TrendMicro Research
LockBit-NG-Dev, might consider a true 4.0 version
LockBit ransomware creators were working on a new version of their file-encrypting malware, called LockBit-NG-Dev, possibly to be known as LockBit 4.0, before law enforcement dismantled their operation this week. Multiple Versions: “Security experts said LockBit previously released various versions of its ransomware:” LockBit version 1.0 was released in January …
Read More »“sebacenter.xyz”, a crucial identity threat for Bangladeshis
“sebacenter.xyz” is now a name of threat for personal identifiable information (PII) for the people of Bangladesh. By using only the site, miscreants are making and distributing fake paper of TIN, NID, NID info, BMET training, Surokkha, Death and birth register and duplicate land tax paper instantly. Even, if any …
Read More »LockBit Ransomware Operation Shut Down; Decryption Keys Released
The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) confirmed that it got LockBit’s source code and gathered intelligence about its activities and affiliates as part of Operation Cronos. “Some of the data on LockBit’s systems belonged to victims who had paid a ransom to the threat actors, evidencing that even when a …
Read More »Bank of America warns customers of data breach
Bank of America is warning customers about a data breach that exposed their personal information due to a hack at one of its service providers, Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS), last year. The customer’s personal information that was exposed in the security breach includes their names, addresses, social security numbers, dates …
Read More »U.S. Sanctions 6 Iranian Officials for Cyber Attacks
On Feb. 2, 2024, the United States imposed sanctions on six Iranian officials for cyber-attacks in the US and other countries. The sanctions were in response to the Jan. 28, 2024, attack on a US outpost in northeast Jordan near the border with Syria and Iraq, where three American soldiers …
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Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare hacked using auth tokens stolen in Okta attack
Cloudflare disclosed that its internal Atlassian server was breached by a suspected ‘nation-state attacker’. The attacker gained access to Cloudflare’s Confluence wiki, Jira bug database, and Bitbucket source code management system. The attacker first accessed Cloudflare’s self-hosted Atlassian server on November 14, and then accessed the company’s Confluence and Jira …
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Cybernews report
‘Mother of all Breaches’ sees 26billion records leaked online
A database of 26 billion leaked records has been discovered called the “Mother of all Breaches.” Cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko and the team at Cybernews found a huge 12-terabyte leak. The database contains both credentials and sensitive data, but it’s not clear who is responsible for it. Having your personal …
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