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German IT provider Bitmarck hit by cyberattack

Bitmarck, one of the largest IT service providers for social insurance carriers in Germany, announced yesterday that it has suffered a cyber attack.

The German IT service provider Bitmarck announced on April 30 it had taken all its systems offline …

Iranian govt uses BouldSpy Android malware for internal surveillance operations

Iranian authorities have been spotted using the BouldSpy Android malware to spy on minorities and traffickers.

Researchers at the Lookout Threat Lab have discovered a new Android surveillance spyware, dubbed BouldSpy, that was used by the Law Enforcement Command of …

Russian APT Nomadic Octopus hacked Tajikistani carrier

Russian APT group Nomadic Octopus hacked a Tajikistani carrier to spy on government officials and public service infrastructures.

Russian cyber espionage group Nomadic Octopus (aka DustSquad) has hacked a Tajikistani telecoms provider to spy on 18 entities, including high-ranking government …

Google banned 173k developer accounts in 2022

In 2022, Google prevented 1.43 million policy-violating apps from being published in the official Google Play store.

Google announced that it prevented 1.43 million policy-violating applications from being published on Google Play in 2022. The IT giant also announced it …

Crooks broke into AT&T email accounts to empty their cryptocurrency wallets

Threat actors are gaining access to AT&T email accounts in an attempt to hack into the victim’s cryptocurrency exchange accounts.

Hackers are breaking into the AT&T email accounts and then using the access they are logging into the victim’s cryptocurrency …

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ViperSoftX uses more sophisticated encryption and anti-analysis techniques

A new variant of the information-stealing malware ViperSoftX implements sophisticated techniques to avoid detection.

Trend Micro researchers observed a new ViperSoftX malware campaign that unlike previous attacks relies on DLL sideloading for its arrival and execution technique.

#ViperSoftX is back,

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Atomic macOS Stealer is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month

Atomic macOS Stealer is a new information stealer targeting macOS that is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month.

Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) recently discovered a Telegram channel advertising a new information-stealing malware, named Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS). …

CISA warns of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices

U.S. CISA released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) medical advisory warning of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) medical advisory warning of vulnerabilities that …

OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT service in Italy after meeting Garante Privacy’s demands

OpenAI announced that access to its chatbot service ChatGPT is allowed again in Italy after the company met the demands of regulators.

OpenAI restored access to ChatGPT in Italy after the company met the demands of the Italian Data Protection …

Cisco discloses a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment solution

Cisco is working on a patch for a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment solution that was reported by a member of NATO’s Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).

Cisco informed its customers that it’s working on a patch for cross-site scripting …

Zyxel fixed a critical RCE flaw in its firewall devices and urges customers to install the patches

A vulnerability impacting Zyxel firewalls, tracked as CVE-2023-28771, can be exploited to execute arbitary code on vulnerable devices.

Researchers from TRAPA Security have discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-28771 (CVSS score 9.8), impacting Zyxel Firewall.

The …

Ukraine cyber police arrested a man for selling data of 300M people

The Ukrainian cyber police arrested a Ukraine man for selling the data of over 300 million people from different countries.

The Ukrainian cyber police have arrested a man (36) from the city of Netishyn for selling the personal data and …

Google obtained a temporary court order against CryptBot distributors

Google obtained a temporary court order in the U.S. to disrupt the operations of the CryptBot information stealer.

Google announced that a federal judge in the Southern District of New York unsealed its civil action against the operators of the information …

Researchers found the first Linux variant of the RTM locker

RTM ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) started offering locker ransomware that targets Linux, NAS, and ESXi systems.

The Uptycs threat research team discovered the first ransomware binary attributed to the RTM ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) provider. The new variant of the encryptor targets Linux, NAS, …

Crooks use PaperCut exploits to deliver Cl0p and LockBit ransomware

Microsoft revealed that recent attacks against PaperCut servers aimed at distributing Cl0p and LockBit ransomware.

Microsoft linked the recent attacks against PaperCut servers to a financially motivated threat actor tracked as Lace Tempest (formerly DEV-0950). The group is known to …

CryptoRom: OkCupid scam cost Florida man $480k – we followed the money to Binance

CyberNews analyzed a classic cryptocurrency romance scam, also known as CryptoRom, explaining how scammers hid the money

CryptoRom scammers hid the money with several layers of obfuscation, but the Cybernews research team discovered that the stolen funds ended up in …