Daily Cyber Brief
Greece’s national natural gas operator refuses to negotiate with ransomware group, CISA warns of a high severity Pan-OS flaw, and Borat RAT is a malware triple-threat...
Cybersecurity
Budget Android device models that are counterfeit versions associated with popular smartphone brands are harboring multiple trojans designed to target WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business messaging apps. The trojans, which Doctor Web first came…
A hospital southeast of Paris has been the victim of an ongoing cyber attack since the weekend, with disruption to emergency services and surgeries as hackers demand a ransom of $10 million to call off the digital assault. The CHSF Hospital Centre in Corbeil-Essonnes…
Security researchers have discovered over 80,000 Hikvision cameras vulnerable to a critical command injection flaw that's easily exploitable via specially crafted messages sent to the vulnerable web server. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2021-36260 and was addressed by…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns of a rising trend of cybercriminals using residential proxies to conduct large-scale credential stuffing attacks without being tracked, flagged, or blocked. The warning was issued as a Private Industry Notification on the…
Greece’s national natural gas operator DESFA confirmed this weekend that it was hit with a cyberattack but said it will not negotiate with the people behind the incident. DESFA is in charge of managing, exploiting, developing, and operating Greece’s natural gas system…
A recent vulnerability found in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS has been added to the catalog of Known Exploitable Vulnerabilities from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The security issue is a high-severity risk identified as CVE-2022-0028 that…
Details of an eight-year-old security vulnerability in the Linux kernel have emerged that the researchers say is "as nasty as Dirty Pipe." Dubbed DirtyCred by a group of academics from Northwestern University, the security weakness exploits a previously unknown flaw…
U.S. healthcare provider Novant Health has disclosed a data breach impacting 1,362,296 individuals who have had their sensitive information mistakenly collected by the Meta Pixel ad tracking script. Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel) is a JavaScript tracking script that…
Atlanta-based cyber risk intelligence company, Cyble discovered a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) malware. What makes this particular RAT malware distinct enough to be named after the comic creation of Sacha Baron Cohen? RAT malware typically helps cybercriminals…
The LockBit ransomware operation's data leak sites have been shut down over the weekend due to a DDoS attack telling them to remove Entrust's allegedly stolen data. In late July, digital security giant Entrust confirmed a cyberattack disclosing that threat actors had stolen…