Internet Archive hit with large-scale breach, DDoS attack
Included in the 6.4 GB SQL database were Internet Archive members' email addresses, usernames, Bcrypt-hashed passwords and password change timestamps, as well as other internal details as recent as September 28, when the attack was believed to have...
Hurricane Helene exploited in FEMA scams, phishing
While some threat actors established fraudulent disaster relief websites as part of phishing attacks aimed at exfiltrating financial details and Social Security numbers from individuals seeking aid, others impersonated Federal Emergency Management...
Malicious GitHub pages and YouTube videos containing links for purported cracked office software, automated trading bots, and game cheats, have been leveraged to facilitate the download of self-extracting password-protected archives.
Updated malware payloads deployed in new North Korean job seeking scams
While threat actors continued to impersonate employers on job search platforms to lure software developers into participating in an online interview that would be followed by BeaverTail malware compromise, more recent attacks entailed the deployment...
Threat actors leveraged social engineering techniques to lure targets into executing a malicious MSI installer-spoofing LNK file that would run an obfuscated script, which ensures persistence and downloads the VSCode command-line interface in the...
Microsoft: BYOD, QR Codes Lead Rampant Education Attacks
The average higher education institution is getting hit once a week now, and as one Oregon State University attack shows, the sector often lacks the resources to keep pace.