The Hacker News | #1 Trusted Cybersecurity News Site
WEBCloudflare has disclosed that it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted 65 seconds. The web infrastructure and security company said it fended off "over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks throughout last month, with many exceeding 2 billion ...
Google Issues Urgent Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited …
WEBOct 28, 2022 · The latest fix also marks the resolution of the seventh zero-day in Google Chrome since the start of 2022 - CVE-2022-0609 - Use-after-free in Animation; CVE-2022-1096 - Type confusion in V8; CVE-2022-1364 - Type confusion in V8; CVE-2022-2294 - Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC; CVE-2022-2856 - Insufficient validation of untrusted …
data breach | News & Insights | The Hacker News
WEBBritish authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a 17-year-old male in connection with a cyber attack affecting Transport for London (TfL). "The 17-year-old male was detained on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offenses in relation to the attack, which was launched on TfL on 1 September," the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) said .
Google Chrome Adds App-Bound Encryption to Protect Cookies …
WEBAug 1, 2024 · Google has announced that it's adding a new layer of protection to its Chrome browser through what's called app-bound encryption to prevent information-stealing malware from grabbing cookies on Windows systems. "On Windows, Chrome uses the Data Protection API (DPAPI) which protects the data at rest from other users on the system or …
News & Insights - The Hacker News
WEBYes, The Hacker News is celebrating its sixth anniversary today on 1st November. We started this site on this same day back in 2010 with the purpose of providing a dedicated platform to deliver latest infosec news and threat updates for Hackers, Security researchers, technologists, and nerds.
Dark Web's Largest Marketplace for Stolen Credit Cards is …
WEBJan 17, 2022 · UniCC, the biggest dark web marketplace for stolen credit and debit cards, has announced that it's shuttering its operations after earning $358 million in purchases since 2013 using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether, and Dash. "Don't build any conspiracy theories about us leaving," the anonymous operators of UniCC said in a ...
The Continuing Threat of Unpatched Security Vulnerabilities
WEBMar 8, 2022 · A report found that unpatched vulnerabilities are the most consistent and primary ransomware attack vectors. It was recorded that in 2021, 65 new vulnerabilities arose that were connected to ransomware. This was observed to be a twenty-nine percent growth compared to the number of vulnerabilities in 2020. Groups involved in …
WormGPT: New AI Tool Allows Cybercriminals to Launch …
WEBJul 15, 2023 · According to findings from SlashNext, a new generative AI cybercrime tool called WormGPT has been advertised on underground forums as a way for adversaries to launch sophisticated phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. "This tool presents itself as a blackhat alternative to GPT models, designed specifically for …
New Zoom Flaws Could Let Attackers Hack Victims Just by …
WEBMay 25, 2022 · Popular video conferencing service Zoom has resolved as many as four security vulnerabilities, which could be exploited to compromise another user over chat by sending specially crafted Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) messages and execute malicious code. Tracked from CVE-2022-22784 through CVE-2022-22787, …
APT42 Hackers Pose as Journalists to Harvest Credentials and …
WEBMay 7, 2024 · Both the groups are affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), but operate with a different set of goals. While Charming Kitten focuses more on long-term, malware-intensive operations targeting organizations and companies in the U.S. and Middle East to steal data, APT42, in contrast, targets specific individuals and …