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Pirated Microsoft Office delivers malware cocktail on systems

Cybercriminals are distributing a malware cocktail through cracked versions of Microsoft Office promoted on torrent sites. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 31 May 2024 984 Views

Cybercriminals Abuse StackOverflow to Promote Malicious Python Package

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new malicious Python package that has been discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository to facilitate cryptocurrency theft as part of a broader campaign. [...]
The Hacker News 30 May 2024 8641 Views

US dismantles 911 S5 botnet used for cyberattacks, arrests admin

The U.S. Justice Department and international partners dismantled the 911 S5 proxy botnet and arrested 35-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang, its administrator, in Singapore. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 30 May 2024 914 Views

Exploit released for maximum severity Fortinet RCE bug, patch now

​Security researchers have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a maximum-severity vulnerability in Fortinet's security information and event management (SIEM) solution, which was patched in February.
Bleeping Computer 29 May 2024 667 Views

Over 90 malicious Android apps with 5.5M installs found on Google Play

Over 90 malicious Android apps were found installed over 5.5 million times through Google Play to deliver malware and adware, with the Anatsa banking trojan seeing a recent surge in activity.
Bleeping Computer 29 May 2024 660 Views

Hackers target Check Point VPNs to breach enterprise networks

Threat actors are targeting Check Point Remote Access VPN devices in an ongoing campaign to breach enterprise networks, the company warned in a Monday advisory. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 28 May 2024 624 Views

TP-Link fixes critical RCE bug in popular C5400X gaming router

The TP-Link Archer C5400X gaming router is vulnerable to security flaws that could enable an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute commands on the device. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 28 May 2024 648 Views

Sav-Rx discloses data breach impacting 2.8 million Americans

Prescription management company Sav-Rx is warning over 2.8 million people in the United States that it suffered a data breach, stating that their personal data was stolen in a 2023 cyberattack. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 27 May 2024 603 Views

Arc browser’s Windows launch targeted by Google ads malvertising

A new Google Ads malvertising campaign, coinciding with the launch of the Arc web browser for Windows, was tricking people into downloading trojanized installers that infect them with malware payloads. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 25 May 2024 639 Views

CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Apache Flink Security Vulnerability

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting Apache Flink, the open-source, unified stream-processing and batch-processing framework, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, ...
The Hacker News 24 May 2024 10589 Views