March 26, 2024PressroomIndustrial espionage/threat intelligence Threat hunters have identified a suspicious package in the NuGet package manager, likely designed to target developers working with tools made by a Chinese company…
Category: Cyber Security
Security brings AI to the next-generation SIEM
Abstract Security has emerged stealthily with a platform designed to centralize security analysis, accelerate detection and triage alerts so that security analysts can focus on actually managing and resolving security…
Fortinet critical RCE bug under active attack
As expected, cyber attackers pounced on a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the Fortinet Enterprise Management Server (EMS) which were patched last week, allowing them to execute arbitrary…
Defend Minecraft servers from DDoS attacks
Minecraft, with more than 500 million registered users and 166 million monthly players, faces significant risks from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which threaten server functionality, player experience and…
How new-age hackers are abandoning the old ethic
COMMENT Hacking is a phenomenon that has been around since at least the 1960s, initially as an exploration of computing more broadly, fueled by the insatiable curiosity of an eternally…
The United States charges 7 Chinese citizens in a major 14-year cyber espionage operation
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday released charges against seven Chinese nationals for their involvement in a hacking group that has targeted US and foreign critics, journalists, businesses…
The dubious NuGet package could portend Chinese industrial espionage
Researchers have identified a popular open source package that may hide industrial espionage malware. “SqzrFramework480” is a .NET dynamic link library (DLL) that appears to belong to Bozhon Precision Industry…
US Sanctions 3 Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Help Russia Evade Sanctions
March 26, 2024PressroomMoney Laundering / Digital Currency The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned three cryptocurrency exchanges for offering services used to evade economic restrictions…
CISA alerts on active exploitation of defects in Fortinet, Ivanti and Nice products
March 26, 2024PressroomCyber attack/vulnerability The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday included three security flaws in its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs), citing evidence of active…
Africa faces online disinformation campaigns during important election year
A dramatic increase in online disinformation attacks against African nations and international agencies operating on the continent has cybersecurity and cybersecurity specialists scrambling to find solutions to the growing problem.…