The Australian, US, and UK governments announced sanctions against Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov, a Russian national connected to the 2022 Medibank hack and the REvil ransomware group. According to a report by Intel471, Ermakov was very involved in cybercrime, working as a ransomware operator and affiliate. It is also thought that …

In the Pwn2Own Automotive first edition, competitors earned $1,323,750 by hacking Tesla twice and demonstrating 49 zero-day bugs in various electric car systems from January 24 to January 26. Hackers targeted electric vehicle chargers, infotainment systems, and car operating systems during a contest organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative …

Cisco warns that some Unified Communications Manager and Contact Center Solutions products have a critical remote code execution security vulnerability. Cisco’s Unified Communications and Contact Center Solutions offer voice, video, and messaging services, as well as customer engagement and management. The company issued a security bulletin about a vulnerability (CVE-2024-20253) …