eSentire researchers devised a new attack technique, named Wiki-Slack attack, that can be used to redirect business professionals to malicious websites. eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU) security researchers discovered a new attack technique, named Wiki-Slack attack, that can be used to redirect business professionals to malicious websites. The attackers choose a subject in Wikipedia that can be […]
HackerOne announced that it has awarded over $300 million bug hunters as part of its bug bounty programs since the launch of its platform. HackerOne announced that it has surpassed $300 million in total all-time rewards on the HackerOne platform. Thirty white hat hackers have earned more than one million dollars submitting vulnerabilities through the […]
A sophisticated malware tracked as StripedFly remained undetected for five years and infected approximately one million devices. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a sophisticated malware, dubbed StripedFly, that remained under the radar for five years masquerading as a cryptocurrency miner. In 2022, the researchers detected within the WININIT.EXE process an older code that was associated with […]
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The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition is over, bug hunters earned $1,038,500 for 58 zero-day exploits. The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition is over, the organizers awarded $1,038,250 for 58 unique 0-days. The Team Viettel (@vcslab) won the Master of Pwn with $180K and 30 points. The vulnerabilities exploited by the experts have been disclosed […]
The Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have hacked the aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor Boeing and threatened to leak the stolen data. The Boeing Company, commonly known as Boeing, is one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers and defense contractors. In 2022, Boeing recorded $66.61 billion in sales, the aerospace giant has 156,000 (2022). The Lockbit ransomware […]
France National Agency for the Security of Information Systems warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group has breached several critical networks. The French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information) warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group has been targeting multiple French organizations, including government entities, businesses, universities, […]
How residential proxies using real IPs from diverse locations enable businesses to gather comprehensive and accurate data from the web Since the adoption of the first digital tools and connection to the internet, the competitive business environment has revolutionized and transformed the ways modern companies conduct business operations. With the help of Information Technologies (IT), […]
F5 warns customers of a critical vulnerability impacting BIG-IP that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. F5 is warning customers about a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-46747 (CVSS 9.8), that impacts BIG-IP and could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability resides in the configuration utility component, it was reported by Michael […]
Cloudflare mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exploiting the flaw HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. Cloudflare DDoS threat report of 2023 states that the company has mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service attacks. 89 of the attacks mitigated by the company exceeded 100 million requests per second (rps), the largest attack peaked at […]