The US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has taken down its second cybercriminal forum of the year. Known and used by hackers around the world – the notorious Genesis Market has met its end. Cybernews has all the details on the raid – and the infamous market. Now, where the Genesis …
Read More »How the Last Big Breach Will Help You Prepare for the Next Cyber Crisis
Security teams ought to seize on the opportunities of failures of the past to make meaningful change in how we approach incident response, urged Sarah Armstrong-Smith, chief security advisor at Microsoft, during UK Cyber Week 2023. Learning lessons from the past is crucial to developing an effective incident response strategy in …
Read More »GoAnywhere Zero-Day Attack Hits Major Orgs
More organizations are emerging to confirm impact from the newly disclosed in-the-wild zero-day exploits hitting Fortra’s GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) software. Tracked as CVE-2023-0669, the vulnerability was publicly disclosed in early February alongside zero-day exploitation and a patch was released a week later. Soon after, attacks targeting the security defect were linked to …
Read More »Google Wants Android Users to Have More Control Over Their Data
Google this week announced plans to increase the control that Android users have over their data by requiring developers to enable data deletion both from the app and online. The initiative, expected to be enforced towards the end of the year, is part of a long-time initiative to improve user …
Read More »Western Digital has shut down several of its services after detecting a security breach on its network, the digital storage giant announced on Monday. The service outage, announced on April 2, impacts cloud, proxy, web, authentication, email, and push notification services, including My Cloud, My Cloud Home (Duo), My Cloud OS5, …
Read More »3CX supply chain attack appears to have been conducted by North Korean hackers with the goal of targeting cryptocurrency firms.
More information has come to light on the recent 3CX supply chain attack, which appears to have been conducted by North Korean hackers with the goal of targeting cryptocurrency companies. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has conducted its own analysis of the incident and found links to attacks observed by the company back in …
Read More »FBI Cracks Down on Genesis Market: 119 Arrested in Cybercrime Crackdown
A coordinated international law enforcement operation has dismantled Genesis Market, an illegal online marketplace that specialized in the sale of stolen credentials associated with email, bank accounts, and social media platforms. Coinciding with the infrastructure seizure, the major crackdown, which involved authorities from 17 countries, culminated in 119 arrests and …
Read More »Mozilla Foundation Releases New Advisory on Thunderbird Vulnerability
Mozilla Foundation has released a security advisory detailing a high-impact vulnerability fixed in the latest version of their email client, Thunderbird. According to the advisory, Thunderbird version 102.9.1 fixes a vulnerability, CVE-2023-28427, that could allow a denial-of-service attack for Thunderbird users who use the Matrix chat protocol. The vulnerability was reported by the …
Read More »British Outsourcing Giant Capita Disrupted by Online Attack
British outsourcing service provider Capita, which has major U.K. healthcare and military contracts, confirmed an online attack is behind ongoing IT failures for some of its customers. Capita “experienced a cyber incident primarily impacting access to internal Microsoft Office 365 applications,” the company said in a statement published by the London Stock …
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