The United States Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has proposed new cybersecurity requirements for healthcare organizations with an aim to safeguard patients’ data against potential cyber attacks. The proposal, which seeks to modify…
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When Good Extensions Go Bad: Takeaways from the Campaign Targeting Browser Extensions
News has been making headlines over the weekend of the extensive attack campaign targeting browser extensions and injecting them with malicious code to steal user credentials. Currently, over 25 extensions, with an install base of over two million users, have…
16 Chrome Extensions Hacked, Exposing Over 600,000 Users to Data Theft
A new attack campaign has targeted known Chrome browser extensions, leading to at least 16 extensions being compromised and exposing over 600,000 users to data exposure and credential theft. The attack targeted publishers of browser extensions on the Chrome Web…
15,000+ Four-Faith Routers Exposed to New Exploit Due to Default Credentials
A high-severity flaw impacting select Four-Faith routers has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12856 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been described as an operating system (OS) command injection bug…
North Korean Hackers Deploy OtterCookie Malware in Contagious Interview Campaign
North Korean threat actors behind the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign have been observed dropping a new JavaScript malware called OtterCookie. Contagious Interview (aka DeceptiveDevelopment) refers to a persistent attack campaign that employs social engineering lures, with the hacking crew often…
Cloud Atlas Deploys VBCloud Malware: Over 80% of Targets Found in Russia
The threat actor known as Cloud Atlas has been observed using a previously undocumented malware called VBCloud as part of its cyber attack campaigns targeting “several dozen users” in 2024. “Victims get infected via phishing emails containing a malicious document…
FICORA and Kaiten Botnets Exploit Old D-Link Vulnerabilities for Global Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a spike in malicious activity that involves roping vulnerable D-Link routers into two different botnets, a Mirai variant dubbed FICORA and a Kaiten (aka Tsunami) variant called CAPSAICIN. “These botnets are frequently spread through documented…
Palo Alto Releases Patch for PAN-OS DoS Flaw — Update Immediately
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed a high-severity vulnerability impacting PAN-OS software that could cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on susceptible devices. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-3393 (CVSS score: 8.7), impacts PAN-OS versions 10.X and 11.X, as well as Prisma Access…
Apache MINA CVE-2024-52046: CVSS 10.0 Flaw Enables RCE via Unsafe Serialization
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released patches to address a maximum severity vulnerability in the MINA Java network application framework that could result in remote code execution under specific conditions. Tracked as CVE-2024-52046, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score…
Brazilian Hacker Charged for Extorting $3.2M in Bitcoin After Breaching 300,000 Accounts
A Brazilian citizen has been charged in the United States for allegedly threatening to release data stolen by hacking into a company’s network in March 2020. Junior Barros De Oliveira, 29, of Curitiba, Brazil has been charged with four counts…