Tag: security
A top US nuclear energy testing facility has been hit by a serious cyberattack and data breach
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL), a US government nuclear research center that works on the development, demonstration, and deployment of nuclear energy, has confirmed suffering a cyberattack and data theft. Speaking to local media outlet East Idaho News, INL spokesperson Lori McNamara said the data breach affected servers “supporting its…
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Critical Citrix Bleed vulnerability is being used by hackers to target multiple businesses
The US Government’s cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies are warning about what the cybersecurity community has known for close to a month now – the LockBit hackers are leveraging the Citrix Bleed vulnerability to target organizations everywhere. Earlier this week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of…
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This malware uses trigonometry to stop it from being detected and blocked
The notion that hackers are constantly evolving their tactics has once again been proven, after a new strain of malware user was found to be using trigonometry to avoid detection. Cybersecurity researchers Outpost24 recently analyzed the latest version of Lumma Stealer, a known infostealer malware capable of grabbing passwords stored…
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Some of the earliest Bitcoin wallets could be particularly open to hacking
Cryptocurrency recovery company Unciphered has warned of a security storm coming to the blockchain, with early adopters likely to be particularly affected. Specifically, crypto wallets created between 2011 and 2015 could be vulnerable to Randstorm, an exploit that can gain unauthorized access to crypto wallets by recovering passwords. Unciphered reports…
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The US government wants to offer better cybersecurity to major infrastructure firms
The US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is expanding its managed cybersecurity services to critical infrastructure entities in a bid to further safeguard key platforms. The organization said its security project had proved a significant success so far, and that expanding it will not only help stress-test its…
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Watch out – that amazing job offer could actually just be a crypto-stealing scam, Microsoft warns
The BlueNoroff cybercrime campaign appears to be going from strenght to strenght after Microsoft spotted yet another criminal campaign it attributed to the North Korean hackers. Redmond’s security pros recently found BlueNoroff (a part of the Lazarus Group advanced persistent threat, which it calls Sapphire Sleet) impersonating skills assessment portals…
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