CVE-2023-47246: SysAid Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited By Lace Tempest

On November 8, 2023, IT service management company SysAid disclosed CVE-2023-47426, a zero-day path traversal vulnerability affecting on-premise SysAid servers. According to Microsoft’s threat intelligence team, it has been exploited in the wild by DEV-0950 (Lace Tempest) in “limited attacks.” Read More …

Threat Predictions for 2024: Chained AI and CaaS Operations Give Attackers More “Easy” Buttons Than Ever

With the growth of Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) operations and the advent of generative AI, threat actors have more “easy” buttons at their fingertips to assist with carrying out attacks than ever before. By relying on the growing capabilities in their respective Read More …

Thailand: Trio arrested for alleged involvement in major data breach

A trio, consisting of an insurance broker, a programmer, and a Facebook page administrator, has been apprehended for their alleged involvement in a significant data breach operation. They stand accused of compromising and subsequently selling the personal data of over Read More …

Sandworm Disrupts Power in Ukraine Using a Novel Attack Against Operational Technology

In late 2022, Mandiant responded to a disruptive cyber physical incident in which the Russia-linked threat actor Sandworm targeted a Ukrainian critical infrastructure organization. This incident was a multi-event cyber attack that leveraged a novel technique for impacting industrial control Read More …

OpenAI Blames ChatGPT’s Intermittent Outages On ‘Abnormal Traffic’ That Suggests Potential Cyber Attack

ChatGPT continued to face intermittent outages late Wednesday, which the platform’s maker OpenAI blamed on a potential cyberattack, hours after the AI chatbot platform recovered from a wide outage that the company initially attributed to a surge in interest for Read More …

FBI: Ransomware Actors Continue to Gain Access through Third Parties and Legitimate System Tools

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this Private Industry Notification to highlight ransomware initial access trends and encourage organizations to implement the recommendations in the “Mitigations” section to reduce the likelihood and impact of ransomware incidents. Threat As Read More …

UK: Cyber attack hits island council computer systems

A suspected ransomware attack has caused significant disruption to IT systems at Western Isles local authority, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. The council said access to its systems had been affected. The Scottish government and computer company Dell have been helping Comhairle Read More …

Indian hackers launch cyber attacks on Qatar to avenge death penalty of former Navy officers

An Indian hacker group, named ‘Indian Cyber Force’ launched cyber attacks on Qatar in response to the death sentence handed to eight former Indian Navy officers by a Qatari court in Espionage case. The Indian hackers claimed of carrying out Read More …