Hackers targeted a hospital system in West Virginia; the attackers used a phishing attack for a data breach from the hospital’s system. Monongalia health system, which also operates Monongalia County General Hospital Company and Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital Company, stated…
Microsoft has pushed users to patch two security vulnerabilities in Active Directory domain controllers that it released in November. Microsoft has become active after a proof-ofo-concept video was made available on December 12. The two vulnerabilities—labeled as CVE-2021-42287— have been…
In a press release, Ukraine police stated that they arrested a 51-member group, for selling data of more than 300 million Americans and Europeans to hackers. Groups like the above are on the rise, and one must go beyond the…
An identity fraud report states that passports are now the most attacked identity document or online fraud among all the identity documents. Over the past year, Onfido’s 2022 Identity Fraud report, fraudsters have targeted passports more than any other identity…
Already existing codes and codes created from scratch Earlier, an author of software wrote each code from scratch for the software, but things have changed. Nowadays, it’s not an individual but teams that write codes for software. And the authors…
Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, has announced that it’s scaling up its bug bounty program. The bug bounty program will start rewarding genuine reports of scraping vulnerabilities relating to its several platforms. “We know that automated activity designed to…
Strongpity, a hacking group, is widely using malicious Notepad++ installers to target users in Belgium and Italy. The modus operandi is successful because of its ability to hide the malicious installer in a tool. An analyst called Blackorbird identified the…
Google released a patch for 5 vulnerabilities found in Chrome. One of the vulnerabilities was being exploited in the wild, and it was altogether the 17th vulnerability found this year in chrome. Labeled CVE-2021-4102, the flaw concerns a use-after-free bug…
The MANGA(aka Dark Mirai) botnet operators’ exploitation of a vulnerability in the TP-Link TL-WR4840N EU V5 has come to light. The vulnerability allows hackers to execute codes remotely. Botnets keep evolving—keep getting better— to target new vulnerabilities for breaching the…
A ransomware attack on CS energy network was warded off. If the ransomware attack had been successful, the attack would have deprived millions of homes of electricity. Chinese attackers, on November 27, tried to hack CS energy’s network but the…
