- Genetic testing firm 23andMe admits hackers accessed DNA data of 7m users
December 5, 2023
The genetic testing company 23andMe has said that nearly 7 million people have been affected by a security breach that put DNA ancestry information into the hands of hackers who broke into the site in early October. On Friday, the California-based company said in a regulatory filing that the personal data of 0.1% of customers – ...
- Roblox and Twitch provider Tipalti breached by ransomware
December 5, 2023
Accounting software provider Tipalti says it is investigating a claim by ransomware group ALPHV that they have gained access to Tipalti’s systems. Tipalti makes software for accounting and payment automation and has some big names among its customers. In what seems to be a typical supply chain attack, ALPHV aka BlackCat are now threatening some Tipalti ...
- Attack Surface Of The Ubiquiti Connect EV Station
December 5, 2023
The Ubiquiti Connect EV Station is a Level 2 charging station for electric vehicles. The EV Station is meant to be managed by a Ubiquiti management platform running the UniFi OS Console, such as the Ubiquiti Dream Machine or Cloud Gateway. Users can also use the iOS or Android UniFi Connect mobile apps to configure the EV ...
- BlueNoroff: new Trojan attacking macOS users
December 5, 2023
Kaspersky researchers recently discovered a new variety of malicious loader that targets macOS, presumably linked to the BlueNoroff APT gang and its ongoing campaign known as RustBucket. The threat actor is known to attack financial organizations, particularly companies, whose activity is in any way related to cryptocurrency, as well as individuals who hold crypto assets or ...
- Hijackable Go Module Repositories
December 4, 2023
The Go module ecosystem is unique because it’s decentralized. Other packaging systems like Pypi or NPM require developers to create accounts to upload their packages. This gives the package platform the ability to moderate users and content. That isn’t the case with Go. Go developers publish modules by pushing their code to source control platforms like ...
- Protecting credentials against social engineering
December 4, 2023
Our story begins with a customer whose help desk unwittingly assisted a threat actor posing as a credentialed employee. In this fourth report in our ongoing Cyberattack Series, we look at the steps taken to discover, understand, and respond to a credential phishing and smishing (text-based phishing) cyberattack that targeted a legitimate, highly-privileged user with social ...
- The Obvious, The Normal, And The Advanced: A Comprehensive Analysis Of Outlook Attack Vectors
December 4, 2023
Outlook, the desktop app in the Microsoft Office suite, has become one of the world’s most popular apps for organizations worldwide for sending and receiving emails, scheduling conferences, and more. From the security perspective, the app is one of the critical “gateways” responsible for introducing various cyber threats into organizations. Even a minor security problem in ...
- UK: Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China
December 4, 2023
The UK’s most hazardous nuclear site, Sellafield, has been hacked into by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China, the Guardian can reveal. The astonishing disclosure and its potential effects have been consistently covered up by senior staff at the vast nuclear waste and decommissioning site, the investigation has found. The Guardian has discovered that ...
- New Relic’s cyber-something revealed as attack on staging systems, some users
December 4, 2023
Nine days after issuing a vaguely worded warning about a possible cyber security incident, web tracking and analytics outfit New Relic has revealed a two-front attack.… One front was the vendor’s staging systems, which it has admitted were compromised in mid-November after an “unauthorized actor used stolen credentials and social engineering in connection with a New ...
- New Tool Set Found Used Against Organizations in the Middle East, Africa and the US
December 1, 2023
Unit 42 researchers observed a series of apparently related attacks against organizations in the Middle East, Africa and the U.S. The researchers will discuss a set of tools used in the course of the attacks that reveal clues about the threat actors’ activity. Unit 42 team is sharing this research to provide detection, prevention and hunting ...
- NATO deepens cyber coalition with Asian partners
December 1, 2023
NATO countries wrapped up one their signature cybersecurity exercises in Estonia this week, welcoming South Korea and Japan to the proceedings as alliance officials seek like-minded governments to harden their collective virtual defenses. The Cyber Coalition 2023 event in the country’s capital of Tallinn focused on sharing threat intelligence and responding to attack scenarios on virtual ...