UK media watchdog Ofcom data downloaded in cyber-attack

Media watchdog Ofcom has confirmed that it is a victim of a cyber-attack by hackers linked to a notorious Russian ransomware group. Confidential data about some companies regulated by Ofcom, and personal information from 412 employees was downloaded during the Read More …

Zero-Day Vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer Exploited for Data Theft

Mandiant has observed wide exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer secure managed file transfer software for subsequent data theft. This vulnerability was announced by Progress Software Corporation on May 31, 2023 and has been assigned CVE-2023-34362. Based Read More …

Russia says US intelligence hacked thousands of iPhones

Russia has accused United States intelligence agencies of hacking thousands of iPhones belonging to Russian users and foreign diplomats in the country. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had discovered an “intelligence action” that had compromised Read More …

A Confession Exposes India’s Secret Hacking Industry

In the summer of 2020, Jonas Rey, a private investigator in Geneva, got a call from a client with a hunch. The client, the British law firm Burlingtons, represented an Iranian-born American entrepreneur, Farhad Azima, who believed that someone had Read More …

Data of 5.82M PharMerica patients stolen, accessed during cyberattack

More than 5.81 million patients tied to PharMerica have been notified that their data was accessed and stolen during a March cyberattack. The long-term care pharmacy solution provider reported the breach to the Office of the Maine Attorney General on Read More …

Vice Society: A tale of victim data exfiltration via PowerShell, aka stealing off the land

Threat actors (TAs) using built-in data exfiltration methods like LOLBAS negate the need to bring in external tools that might be flagged by security software and/or human-based security detection mechanisms. These methods can also hide within the general operating environment, Read More …

Legion: New hacktool steals credentials from misconfigured sites

A new Python-based credential harvester and SMTP hijacking tool named ‘Legion’ is being sold on Telegram that targets online email services for phishing and spam attacks. Legion is sold by cybercriminals who use the “Forza Tools” moniker and operate a Read More …

China used stolen data to expose CIA operatives in Africa and Europe

Around 2013, U.S. intelligence began noticing an alarming pattern: Undercover CIA personnel, flying into countries in Africa and Europe for sensitive work, were being rapidly and successfully identified by Chinese intelligence, according to three former U.S. officials. The surveillance by Read More …