Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by North Korea’s government exploited a critical Chrome zeroday in an attempt to infect the computers of hundreds of people working in a wide range of industries, including the news media, IT, cryptocurrency, and financial services, Google said Thursday. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-0609, was exploited by two separate […]
Enlarge (credit: bjdlzx | Getty Images) More than 22,000 miles above Earth, the KA-SAT is locked in orbit. Traveling at 7,000 miles per hour, in sync with the planet’s rotation, the satellite beams high-speed Internet down to people across Europe. Since 2011, it has helped homeowners, businesses, and militaries get online. However, as Russian troops […]
Enlarge / The new version of Dishy McFlatface. (credit: Starlink) Starlink has raised its prices for equipment and monthly service, blaming inflation for the increases in an email to customers. The up-front hardware cost was raised from $499 to $599 (a 20 percent increase), and the monthly service price was raised from $99 in order […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A relatively new entrant to the ransomware scene has made two startling claims in recent days by posting images that appear to show proprietary data the group says it stole from Microsoft and Okta, a Single Sign-On provider with 15,000 customers. The Lapsus$ group, which first appeared three months ago, said […]
Enlarge / US Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger speaking during a March 21 White House daily press briefing. (credit: Getty Images) The Biden administration on Monday warned that it believes Russian state hackers may step up a cyber offensive that targets US organizations, particularly organizations in the private sector […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When we teach people how to avoid falling victim to phishing sites, we usually advise closely inspecting the address bar to make sure it does contain HTTPS and that it doesn’t contain suspicious domains such as google. evildomain. com or substitute letters such as g00gle. com. But what if someone found […]
Enlarge (credit: Elena Lacey) After years of tantalizing hints that a passwordless future is just around the corner, you’re probably still not feeling any closer to that digital unshackling. Ten years into working on the issue, though, the FIDO Alliance, an industry association that specifically works on secure authentication, thinks it has finally identified the […]
Enlarge (credit: Wired | Getty Images) For years, Russia’s cybercrime groups have acted with relative impunity. The Kremlin and local law enforcement have largely turned a blind eye to disruptive ransomware attacks as long as they didn’t target Russian companies. Despite direct pressure on Vladimir Putin to tackle ransomware groups, they’re still intimately tied to […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The developer of a popular open source package has been caught adding malicious code to that package, which wiped files from computers located in Russian federation and Belarus, in a protest that has enraged many users and raised concerns about the safety of free and open source software. The application, node. […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For years, malicious hackers have been hacking large fleets of MikroTik routers and conscripting them into Trickbot, one of the Internet’s most destructive botnets. Now, Microsoft has finally figured out why and how the devices are being put to use. Trickbot came to light in 2016 as a trojan for stealing […]