QuickBooks popup scam still being delivered via Google ads

Accounting software QuickBooks, by Intuit, is a popular target for India-based scammers, only rivaled for top spot by the classic Microsoft tech support scams. Malwarebytes Labs researchers seen two main lures, both via Google ads: the first one is simply Read More …

Inside Water Barghest’s Rapid Exploit-to-Market Strategy for IoT Devices

There is a big incentive for both espionage motivated actors and financially motivated actors to set up proxy botnets. These can serve as an anonymization layer, which can provide plausibly geolocated IP addresses to scrape contents of websites, access stolen Read More …

Palo Alto Releases Critical Security Bulletin for Firewall Devices

Palo Alto has issued a critical severity security bulletin for an unauthenticated remote command execution vulnerability affecting the management interface for firewall devices. The vulnerability is still under investigation by Palo Alto but has not yet received a CVE designation. Read More …

Don’t Hold Down The Ctrl Key – New Warning As Cyber Attacks Confirmed

Just as security professionals will tell you that layered defensive strategies are the best when it comes to staving off successful attacks, so attackers will often look to precisely the same when executing their cyber attacks. Two-step phishing attacks have, Read More …

Schneider Electric Data Breach Leaks Critical Data, Hellcat Ransomware Group Demands Hefty Ransom in Baguettes

French digital automation and energy management giant Schneider Electric is investigating a data breach after a hacker claimed they stole dozens of gigabytes and demanded a hefty ransom in Baguettes, a classic popular French bread item. Schneider Electric manufactures various Read More …

Сrimeware and financial cyberthreats in 2025

Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team constantly monitors known and emerging cyberthreats directed at the financial industry, with banks and fintech companies being the most targeted. Kaspersky researchers also closely follow threats that aim to infiltrate a wider range of Read More …

Ivanti Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Ivanti has released the following three security advisories addressing vulnerabilities in multiple products. Security Advisory Ivanti Avalanche (Multiple CVEs) – Q4 2024 Release Ivanti Avalanche is a mobile device management solution and is used to remotely manage, deploy software, and Read More …

Microsoft Releases November 2024 Security Updates

Microsoft has released security updates to address 89 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. The security updates include four critical vulnerabilities, two vulnerabilities that are under zero-day exploitation, and four vulnerabilities that are publicly disclosed. Vulnerability details CVE-2024-43451 – NTLM Hash Disclosure Read More …

Threats in space (or rather, on Earth): Internet-exposed GNSS receivers

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are collections, or constellations of satellite positioning systems. There are several GNSSs launched by different countries currently in operation: GPS (US), GLONASS (Russia), Galileo (EU), BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS, China), Navigation with Indian Constellation Read More …