University cyber centers nab $15M in Energy Department funding
Six U.S. universities will be receiving a $15 million investment from the Department of Energy to strengthen energy sector cybersecurity by fostering research and workforce development, reports SecurityWeek.
Nearly 700K impacted by Israeli LGBTQ dating app breach
Hackread reports that widely known Israeli LGBTQ dating app Atraf had a database containing information from 669,672 users potentially stolen from a 2021 attack by Iranian state-sponsored threat operation Black Shadow exposed by a Russian threat...
Separate crypto heists hit Munchables, Prisma Finance
Over $74 million worth of cryptocurrency has been exfiltrated from separate cryptocurrency heists against blockchain-based game Munchables and widely known decentralized finance platform Prisma Finance last week, according to The Record, a news site...
Over 100K possibly impacted by Ivanti-related CISA compromise
More than 100,000 individuals were noted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to possibly have been affected by a cyberattack against its Chemical Security Assessment Tool involving the exploitation of security vulnerabilities in...
Threat actors have been leveraging malicious ads and websites to facilitate ongoing information-stealing malware attacks against macOS devices, The Hacker News reports.
BleepingComputer reports that more advanced features and increased stealth have been added to the updated Vultur Android banking trojan, which is being distributed via hybrid attacks.
Significant compromise likely with exploitation of new Linux vulnerability
Some Linux distributions could have user passwords exposed and clipboards taken over in attacks exploiting an improper escape sequence neutralization vulnerability impacting the util-linux package's "wall" command, tracked as CVE-2024-28085, reports...