Cops in Germany have found cybercrime gang leader The Federal Criminal Police of Journey “BKA” has claimed that Stern, the leader of TrickBot and Conti cybercrime gangs, is Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev, a 36-year-old Russian. According to BKA, he is suspected…
Category: CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents
Rust-Developed InfoStealer Extracts Sensitive Data from Chromium-Based Browsers
Browsers at risk The latest information-stealing malware, made in the Rust programming language, has surfaced as a major danger to users of Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and others. Known as “RustStealer” by cybersecurity experts, this advanced…
Unimed AI Chatbot Exposes Millions of Patient Messages in Major Data Leak
iA significant data exposure involving Unimed, one of the world’s largest healthcare cooperatives, has come to light after cybersecurity researchers discovered an unsecured database containing millions of sensitive patient-doctor communications. The discovery was made by cybersecurity experts at Cybernews,…
Critical Bug in E-commerce Website, Over 10000 Customers Impacted
WordPress plugin exploit Cybersecurity experts have found a critical unpatched security vulnerability impacting the TI WooCommerce Wishlist plugin for WordPress that unauthorized threat actors could abuse to upload arbitrary files. TI WooCommerce Wishlist has more than 100,000 active installations. It…
TSA Advises Against Using Airport USB Ports to Charge Your Phone
So-called juice jacking is the most controversial topic in cybersecurity circles. In most years, when a new alert is issued by a government agency before the holidays, it creates new headlines. Stories are written and cyber eyebrows are raised…
US Sanctions Philippines-Based Web Host Tied to $200 Million Crypto Scam Network
In a significant move against online fraud, the US Treasury Department has sanctioned a Philippines-based web hosting company accused of enabling massive cryptocurrency scams. The sanctions, announced Thursday, target Funnull Technology and its administrator, Chinese national Liu Lizhi, for…
AI Agents Raise Cybersecurity Concerns Amid Rapid Enterprise Adoption
A growing number of organizations are adopting autonomous AI agents despite widespread concerns about the cybersecurity risks they pose. According to a new global report released by identity security firm SailPoint, this accelerated deployment is happening in a largely…
AI Fraud Emerges as a Growing Threat to Consumer Technology
With the advent of generative AI, a paradigm shift has been ushered in the field of cybersecurity, transforming the tactics, techniques, and procedures that malicious actors have been using for a very long time. As threat actors no longer…
APT41 Exploits Google Calendar in Stealthy Cyberattack; Google Shuts It Down
Chinese state-backed threat actor APT41 has been discovered leveraging Google Calendar as a command-and-control (C2) channel in a sophisticated cyber campaign, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (TIG). The team has since dismantled the infrastructure and implemented defenses to…
How Biometric Data Collection Affects Workers
Modern workplaces are beginning to track more than just employee hours or tasks. Today, many employers are collecting very personal information about workers’ bodies and behaviors. This includes data like fingerprints, eye scans, heart rates, sleeping patterns, and even…