With TikTok U.S. Ban Looming, Users Flock to Red Note – Another Chinese-Owned App

TikTok could be outlawed in the U.S. as soon as Jan. 19 over concerns about its Chinese ownership, unless it gets a reprieve from the Supreme Court or if Beijing-based parent company ByteDance complies with a federal law forcing it Read More …

One Step Ahead in Cyber Hide-and-Seek: Automating Malicious Infrastructure Discovery With Graph Neural Networks

When launching and persisting attacks at scale, threat actors can inadvertently leave behind traces of information. They often reuse, rotate and share portions of their infrastructure when automating their campaign’s setup before launching an attack. Defenders can leverage this behavior Read More …

Analyzing CVE-2024-44243, a macOS System Integrity Protection bypass through kernel extensions

Microsoft Threat Intelligence discovered a new macOS vulnerability that could allow attackers to bypass Apple’s System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS by loading third party kernel extensions. SIP is a security technology that restricts the performance of operations that may Read More …

Nominet confirms cybersecurity incident linked to Ivanti VPN hacks

Nominet, the U.K. domain registry that maintains .co.uk domains, has experienced a cybersecurity incident that it confirmed is linked to the recent exploitation of a new Ivanti VPN vulnerability. In an email to customers, seen by TechCrunch, Nominet warned of Read More …

UK: Hackney Council still addressing 2020 cyber attack

Hackney Council has bought a new housing management system – technology that supports local authorities manage housing – as it tries to address the damage from a cyber attack four years ago. The October 2020 cyber attack left a lasting Read More …

Burning Zero Days: Suspected Nation-State Adversary Targets Ivanti CSA

Today FortiGuard Labs is releasing this blog post about a case where an advanced adversary was observed exploiting three vulnerabilities affecting the Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA). At the time of our investigation, two out of the three identified vulnerabilities Read More …

Meet FunkSec: A New, Surprising Ransomware Group, Powered by AI

The FunkSec ransomware group emerged in late 2024 and published over 85 victims in December, surpassing every other ransomware group that month. FunkSec operators appear to use AI-assisted malware development, which can enable even inexperienced actors to quickly produce and Read More …

Millions of Vinted, Spotify and Tinder users’ data could be compromised in global hack

Millions of users of popular apps such as Vinted, Spotify, Candy Crush and Tinder may have had their sensitive location data stolen by an unknown hacker who has posted details on a Russian-language site popular with cyber-criminals. In what is Read More …