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Black Basta, Bl00dy ransomware gangs join ScreenConnect attacks

The Black Basta and Bl00dy ransomware gangs have joined widespread attacks targeting ScreenConnect servers unpatched against a maximum severity authentication bypass vulnerability.
Bleeping Computer 28 Feb 2024 843 Views

New Hugging Face Vulnerability Exposes AI Models to Supply Chain Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have found that it's possible to compromise the Hugging Face Safetensors conversion service to ultimately hijack the models submitted by users and result in supply chain attacks.
The Hacker News 28 Feb 2024 7136 Views

8,000+ Domains of Trusted Brands Hijacked for Massive Spam Operation

More than 8,000 domains and 13,000 subdomains belonging to legitimate brands and institutions have been hijacked as part of a sophisticated distribution architecture for spam proliferation and click monetization. Guardio Labs is tracking the coordinated malicious activity, which has been ongoing since at least...
The Hacker News 26 Feb 2024 7599 Views

LockBit ransomware returns, restores servers after police disruption

The LockBit gang is relaunching its ransomware operation on a new infrastructure less than a week after law enforcement hacked their servers, and is threatening to focus more of their attacks on the government sector. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 26 Feb 2024 828 Views

North Korean Hackers Targeting Developers with Malicious npm Packages

A set of fake npm packages discovered on the Node.js repository has been found to share ties with North Korean state-sponsored actors, new findings from Phylum show. The packages are named execution-time-async, data-time-utils, login...
The Hacker News 26 Feb 2024 6147 Views

Ransomware associated with LockBit still spreading 2 days after server takedown

Two days after an international team of authorities struck a major blow at LockBit, one of the Internet’s most prolific ransomware syndicates, researchers have detected a new round of attacks that are installing malware associated with the group. [...]
Ars Technica 23 Feb 2024 3975 Views

ScreenConnect critical bug now under attack as exploit code emerges

Both technical details and proof-of-concept exploits are available for the two vulnerabilities ConnectWise disclosed earlier this week for ScreenConnect, its remote desktop and access software.
Bleeping Computer 22 Feb 2024 1176 Views

VMware urges admins to remove deprecated, vulnerable auth plug-in

VMware urged admins today to remove a discontinued authentication plugin exposed to authentication relay and session hijack attacks in Windows domain environments via two security vulnerabilities left unpatched.
Bleeping Computer 22 Feb 2024 1155 Views

'KeyTrap' DNS Bug Threatens Widespread Internet Outages

Thanks to a 24-year-old security vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-50387, attackers could stall DNS servers with just a single malicious packet, effectively taking out wide swaths of the Internet.
Dark Reading 21 Feb 2024 1010 Views

ConnectWise urges ScreenConnect admins to patch critical RCE flaw

ConnectWise warned customers to patch their ScreenConnect servers immediately against a maximum severity flaw that can be used in remote code execution (RCE) attacks. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 21 Feb 2024 1020 Views