Tag: security
Major data breach leaks highly sensitive donor records of multiple charities
A database of nearly one million records, including information of a donor platform, has been discovered online without password protection. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler is credited with finding more than 948,000 records in a database measuring over 465GB that is believed to belong to DonorView, a software provider for nonprofits.…
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Thousands of WordPress websites could be put at risk by this serious security bug
A recently disclosed vulnerability affecting the ‘Backup Migration’ WordPress plugin has been assigned a severity score of 9.8 out of 10, but things may not be as bad as it seems because there’s a patch available now. The security bug, tracked as CVE-2023-6553, affects all versions up to (and including)…
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Another top US health provider sees millions of patient records stolen – here’s what we know
Kentucky-based healthcare provider Norton has confirmed that it has suffered a significant ransomware attack that may have put the data of millions of its patients at risk. In a filing to the Maine Attorney General on December 8, the healthcare giant said that 2.5 million individuals had been affected by…
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A whole new kind of Linux malware has been found in the wild
A new type of Linux malware has been identified after going unnoticed for two years thanks to work by cybersecurity researchers from Group-IB. The newly uncovered Linux Remote Access Trojan (RAT), Krasue, was first registered on Virustotal, and has since been targeting primarily telecommunications companies in Thailand. Group-IB says that…
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Update WordPress now to fix this significant security flaw
WordPress has released a new version – 6.4.2, that fixes a remote code execution vulnerability. Used in pair with another flaw, hackers could run arbitrary PHP code on a WordPress website, and as almost half of the internet is thought to run on WordPress, the attack surface is quite wide.…
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Top Russian military hackers target NATO using Microsoft Outlook exploits
Between April and December 2022, the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps, a NATO force that can quickly be deployed to command NATO forces, was targeted by Russian state-sponsored hackers. This is according to cybersecurity researchers Unit 42, a security arm of Palo Alto Networks, who noted that the hackers were after…
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