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A cyber attack forced the Jefferson County Clerk’s Office to close its eight branches this week. The attack was first discovered at 2:24 a.m. Monday, said Ashley Tinius, a spokesperson for the office. The office has been working with a Read More …
Cybersecurity researchers at ESET discovered a zero-day vulnerability that targeted the Telegram for Android app and sent malicious files disguised as videos through chats. The zero-day exploit, dubbed “EvilVideo,” allowed hackers to share Android payloads via Telegram channels, groups, and Read More …
Recently, Check Point Research observed threat actors using GitHub to achieve initial infections by utilizing new methods. Previously, GitHub was used to distribute malicious software directly, with a malicious script downloading either raw encrypted scripting code or malicious executables. Their Read More …
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County will be closed on Monday as they continue to recover from a ransomware attack that happened last week. Because of this, all 36 courthouse locations across LA County will be closed to start Read More …
Who loves a global outage? Phishers, fraudsters and all manner of creeps Criminals didn’t waste any time taking advantage of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft chaos and quickly got to work phishing organizations and spinning up malicious domains purporting to be fixes.… Just Read More …
Nope, that headline’s not a typo. Over one thousand percent. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) tracked 1,041,312,601 data breach victims in Q2 2024, an increase of 1,170% over Q2 2023 (81,958,874 victims). The ITRC is a national non-profit organization Read More …
North Korean state-sponsored threat actors are once again setting up fake job interviews in a bid to infect unsuspecting victims with infostealing malware – but this time around, they are focusing on Apple users. Cybersecurity researcher Patrick Wardle recently discovered Read More …
Recently, Mandiant became aware of an APT41 intrusion where the malicious actor deployed a combination of ANTSWORD and BLUEBEAM web shells for persistence. These web shells were identified on a Tomcat Apache Manager server and active since at least 2023. Read More …
eScript provider MediSecure has revealed the personal data of 12.9 million Australians was stolen by hackers earlier this year, making it one of the largest cyber breaches in Australian history. MediSecure, which facilitates electronic prescriptions and dispensing, confirmed it was Read More …
Major sporting events like the World Cup, Super Bowl, and Wimbledon attract millions, even billions, of viewers. Argentina’s shootout win over France in the final game of the Qatar 2022 World Cup reached a global audience of 1.5 billion viewers. And Read More …
