Hackers breach energy orgs via bugs in discontinued web server
Microsoft said today that security vulnerabilities found to impact a web server discontinued since 2005 have been used to target and compromise organizations in the energy sector. As...
California County Says Personal Information Compromised in Data Breach
The County of Tehama, California, has started informing employees, recipients of services, and affiliates that their personal information might have been compromised in a data...
Security Researchers Looking at Mastodon as Its Popularity Soars
Cybersecurity researchers are increasingly looking at Mastodon now that the decentralized social media platform's popularity has soared, and they have started finding vulnerabilities...
Iranian hackers use Log4Shell to mine crypto on federal computer system
Hackers with connections to the Iranian government broke into a U.S. government agency's network in early 2022, utilizing a well-known flaw in an open-source software library...
Top Zeus Botnet Suspect "Tank" Arrested in Geneva
Vyacheslav "Tank" Penchukov, the accused 40-year-old Ukrainian leader of a prolific cybercriminal group that stole tens of millions of dollars from small to mid-sized businesses in the United States...
How North Korea became a mastermind of crypto cybercrime
Created by a Vietnamese gaming studio, Axie Infinity offers players the chance to breed, trade, and fight Pokémon-like cartoon monsters to earn cryptocurrencies including the game's own...
Foxit Patches Several Code Execution Vulnerabilities in PDF Reader
Popular PDF document reader Foxit Reader has been updated to address multiple use-after-free security bugs that could be exploited for arbitrary code execution. The feature-rich PDF...
Microsoft links Russia's military to cyberattacks in Poland and Ukraine
Microsoft on Thursday fingered Russia's military intelligence arm as the likely culprit behind ransomware attacks last month that targeted Polish and Ukrainian transportation...
Having refused to pay ransom, health insurer Medibank sees customer data posted online by hackers
A ransomware gang has begun to publish data on the dark web stolen from Australia's largest health insurer Medibank. The leaking of Mediabank's client...
Krebs on Security: Patch Tuesday, November 2022 Election Edition
Let's face it: Having "2022 election" in the headline above is probably the only reason anyone might read this story today. Still, while most of us here in the United States are...
