Cybersecurity

Analyzing the Recent Large-Scale Cyberattack Against the Albanian Government

On July 17, 2022, Albania experienced the most aggressive cyber attack in its history. At first, the country had only experienced DDoS attacks on a few targets in the private and government sector, but the most recent attack disrupted the entire country’s online services…

German Chambers of Industry and Commerce hit by 'massive' cyberattack

The Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) was forced to shut down all of its IT systems and switch off digital services, telephones, and email servers, in response to a cyberattack. DIHK is a coalition of 79 chambers representing companies…

Taiwan billboards hacked with anti-Nancy Pelosi messages during historic visit

Public billboards and screens in convenience stores across Taiwan were hacked to display anti-Nancy Pelosi statements in response to the US House Speaker's visit on Tuesday. The "unprecedented" cyber attack came after Beijing warned "forceful measures" would be taken…

Pro-China information campaign used fake websites to spread propaganda: Mandiant

Dozens of news websites operating in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and elsewhere that claim to be independent are part of a massive propaganda effort to “disseminate content strategically aligned with the political interests of the People’s Republic of China,” according to a new…

Critical RCE Bug Could Let Hackers Remotely Take Over DrayTek Vigor Routers

As many as 29 different router models from DrayTek have been identified as affected by a new critical, unauthenticated, remote code execution vulnerability that, if successfully exploited, could lead to full compromise of the device and unauthorized access to the broader network…

Taiwan Defense Ministry says DDoS incident briefly took down network after Pelosi visit

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said its network was taken offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) incident for about two hours following a visit to the island from U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The attack started shortly after Pelosi left the island…

Hackers try to extort survey firm QuestionPro after alleged data theft

Hackers attempted to extort the online survey platform QuestionPro after claiming to have stolen the company's database containing respondents' personal information. QuestionPro is an online service allowing businesses to create and conduct surveys to perform market…

High-Severity Bug in Kaspersky VPN Client Opens Door to PC Takeover

A high-severity local privilege-escalation (LPE) vulnerability in Kaspersky's VPN Secure Connection for Microsoft Windows has been discovered, which would allow an attacker to gain administrative privileges and take full control over a victim's computer…

Thousands of hackers flock to 'Dark Utilities' C2-as-a-Service

Security researchers found a new service called Dark Utilities that provides an easy and inexpensive way for cybercriminals to set up a command and control (C2) center for their malicious operations. The Dark Utilities service provides threat actors a platform that…

U.S. and Australian security agencies release list of 2021’s ‘top’ malware strains

The most commonly seen malware strains in 2021 include Agent Tesla, Qakbot, TrickBot, GootLoader and several others, according to a new list released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC)…