The Canadian government department for foreign and consular relations, Global Affairs Canada was hit by a cyberattack last week. While critical services remain accessible, access to some online services is currently not available, as government systems continue …
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US-based Tor Project and Russian digital-rights protection org RosKomSvoboda are appealing a Russian court’s decision to block access to public Tor nodes and the project’s website. The non-profit Tor Project operates the Tor decentralized network, …
Tor Project appeals Russian court’s decision to block access to Tor Read More »
Ukrainian police officers have arrested a ransomware affiliate group responsible for attacking at least 50 companies in the U.S. and Europe. It is estimated that the total losses resulting from the attacks is in excess …
Ukranian police arrests ransomware gang that hit over 50 firms Read More »
Hackers believed to work for the North Korean government have compromised the email account of a staff member of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID) and deployed spear-phishing attacks against the country’s diplomats in other …
Hackers take over diplomat’s email, target Russian deputy minister Read More »
Users of popular open-source libraries ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the NPM libraries had been compromised, but it turns …
Dev corrupts NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ breaking thousands of apps Read More »
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned US companies in a recently updated flash alert that the financially motivated FIN7 cybercriminals group is targeting the US defense industry with packages containing malicious USB devices. The …
FBI: Hackers target US defense firms with malicious USB packages Read More »
Microsoft has released an emergency out-of-band update to address a Windows Server bug leading to Remote Desktop connection and performance issues. Microsoft is releasing Out-of-band (OOB) updates today, January 4, 2022, to resolve issues in …
Emergency Windows Server update fixes Remote Desktop issues Read More »
The cracked passwords for almost 7.5 million DatPiff members are being sold online, and users can check if they are part of the data breach through the Have I Been Pwned notification service. DatPiff is a …
Have I Been Pwned warns of DatPiff data breach impacting millions Read More »
A malicious Telegram for Desktop installer distributes the Purple Fox malware to install further malicious payloads on infected devices. The installer is a compiled AutoIt script named “Telegram Desktop.exe” that drops two files, an actual …
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A novel persistent denial of service vulnerability named ‘doorLock’ was discovered in Apple HomeKit, affecting iOS 14.7 through 15.2. Apple HomeKit is a software framework that lets iPhone and iPad users control smart home appliances …
Apple iOS vulnerable to HomeKit ‘doorLock’ denial of service bug Read More »
Programmers, sysadmins, security researchers, and tech hobbyists copying-pasting commands from web pages into a console or terminal are warned they risk having their system compromised. A technologist demonstrates a simple trick that’ll make you think twice before …
Don’t copy-paste commands from webpages — you can get hacked Read More »
A vulnerability in Uber’s email system allows just about anyone to send emails on behalf of Uber. The researcher who discovered this flaw warns this vulnerability can be abused by threat actors to email 57 …
Uber dismisses vulnerability that lets you email anyone as Uber! Read More »