According to McAfee, North Korea was behind a cyber-espionage campaign that occurred earlier this year and targeted US defense and aerospace firms. McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research group claimed they detected similarities between the recent campaign and previous ones that linked the espionage to Hidden Cobra, a term used to refer

Earlier this week, an Israeli marketing video firm called Promo announced a major data breach in which 14 million accounts were impacted. The Israeli company revealed in an online notice that customer data was compromised due to a vulnerability in a third-party service. Attackers gained access to sensitive data such

North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group called Lazarus has emerged with new custom ransomware first spotted by Kaspersky in attacks against two organizations in March and April of this year. Researchers who have been observing the group’s actions state that the strain of ransomware utilized in the attacks is

The US government has charged three individuals who formerly worked for Twitter with more offenses, including fraudulently accessing information and acting as illegal agents of a foreign government. The former Twitter employees were originally charged with two different crimes, however, they are now under scrutiny for seven offenses rather than

According to researchers, the ransomware attack that hit the navigation and fitness company Garmin didn’t just affect the website and workout services. The ransomware attack took down Garmin Connect, which is the cloud platform utilized by customers to sync user data. Pilots who use Garmin products for positioning, navigation, and

Researchers have uncovered a misconfigured cloud server operated by cosmetics brand Avon, allowing the public to access more than 19 million records. SafetyDetectives researchers found the Elasticsearch database on an Azure server that contained no password protection or encryption, meaning that anyone who has the server’s IP address could access

According to Cisco, a high severity flaw in its network security software is being actively exploited by cybercriminals. Cisco’s software is used by many Fortune 500 companies who are now at risk due to the vulnerability, which can lead to remote unauthenticated access to sensitive data. Patches for the flaw

The US CISA and UK NCSC have warned that there are roughly 62,000 QNAP Network Attached Storage devices infected with malware. The compromised devices are located across the globe and are allowing unknown cyber actors to access stored information. The malware variant targeting the QNAP devices has been named QSnatch

A US-based fintech giant has publicly released a statement detailing a data breach the company suffered after researchers discovered a malicious database selling users’ personal information. The company is called Dave and offers digital banking services to its users. Over the past week, researchers investigated claims that Dave’s customers’ details

The US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released a joint advisory that foreign adversaries could be actively targeting US critical infrastructure across the nation. The alert states that infrastructure such as power plants, factories, oil, and gas refineries could be among the