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State-sponsored hackers in China compromise certificate authority

State-sponsored hackers in China compromise certificate authority

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Getty Images Nation-state hackers based in China recently infected a certificate authority and several government and defense agencies with a potent malware cocktail for burrowing inside a network and stealing sensitive information, researchers said on Tuesday. The successful compromise of the unnamed certificate authority is potentially serious, because these entities are trusted by browsers and […]

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Unpatched Zimbra flaw under attack is letting hackers backdoor servers

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An unpatched code-execution vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration software is under active exploitation by attackers using the attacks to backdoor servers. The attacks began no later than September 7, when a Zimbra customer reported a few days later that a server running the company’s Amavis spam-filtering engine processed an email containing a malicious attachment. Within

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Hackers tied to Russia’s GRU targeted the US grid for years

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For all the nation-state hacker groups that have targeted the United States power grid—and even successfully breached American electric utilities—only the Russian military intelligence group known as Sandworm has been brazen enough to trigger actual blackouts, shutting the lights off in Ukraine in 2015 and 2016. Now one grid-focused security firm is warning that a

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North Korean hackers steal billions in cryptocurrency. How do they turn it into real cash?

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But the North Korean playbook has evolved in the last few years. One tactic, known as a “peel chain,” moves money in rapid and automated transactions from one Bitcoin wallet to new addresses through hundreds or thousands of transactions in a way that both hides the source of the money and lessens the risk of

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Twitter lost control of its internal systems to Bitcoin-scamming hackers

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Enlarge / A Twitter logo displayed on a smartphone. Twitter lost control of its internal systems to attackers who hijacked almost a dozen high-profile accounts, in a breach that raises serious concerns about the security of a platform that’s growing increasingly influential. The first signs of compromise occurred around 1pm California time when hijacked accounts—belonging

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Russian hackers have been accused of targeting covid-19 vaccine researchers

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The news: Russian hackers targeted UK, US, and Canadian researchers developing coronavirus vaccines, according to a report from the United Kingdom, American, and Canadian intelligence services. The hackers: The Russian intelligence hacking group known as Cozy Bear or APT29 has been blamed. You might know Cozy from its many previous high-profile cyber-espionage ventures, most notably

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To evade detection, hackers are requiring targets to complete CAPTCHAs

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Microsoft Security Intelligence CAPTCHAs, those puzzles with muffled sounds or blurred or squiggly letters that websites use to filter out bots (often unsuccessfully), have been annoying end users for more than a decade. Now, the challenge-and-response tests are likely to vex targets in malware attacks. Microsoft recently spotted an attack group distributing a malicious Excel

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Hackers for hire targeted hundreds of institutions, says report

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Getty Images A hackers-for-hire group dubbed “Dark Basin” has targeted thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions around the world, including advocacy groups, journalists, elected officials, lawyers, hedge funds, and companies, according to the Internet watchdog Citizen Lab. Researchers discovered almost 28,000 webpages created by hackers for personalized “spear phishing” attacks designed to steal passwords,

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Critical WordPress Plugin Bug Lets Hackers Turn Users Into Admins

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A critical privilege escalation vulnerability found in the WordPress SEO Plugin – Rank Math plugin can allow attackers to give administrator privileges to any registered user on one of the 200,000 sites with active installations if left unpatched. Rank Math is a WordPress plugin described by its developers as ‘the Swiss army knife of WordPress SEO’

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