HACKING

A threat actor – or possibly several – has hit approximately 22,000 vulnerable instances of CyberPanel and encrypted files on the servers running it with the PSAUX and other ransomware. The PSAUX ransom note (Source: LeakIX) The…

The FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have disclosed that Chinese hackers breached commercial telecommunication service providers in the United States. The breached entities have been warned, and…

This story, originally published Oct. 11, includes details of a new Google anti-scam alliance initiative, a new warning about legitimate-looking support scams and details of Google’s Advanced Protection Program to protect high-risk…

TOKYO -- China is increasingly suspected of making "white hat" hackers, who are usually employed to find weaknesses in cybersecurity, complicit in cyberattacks, accelerating the country's offensive efforts in the field by effectively…

The state-sponsored Chinese hacking campaign known as Volt Typhoon is exploiting a bug in a California-based startup to hack American and Indian internet companies, according to security researchers.  Volt Typhoon has breached four US…

Poorly protected PostgreSQL databases running on Linux machines are being compromised by cryptojacking attackers. The attack – observed by Aqua Security researchers on a honeypot system – starts with the threat actors brute-forcing…

Up to 5 million installations of the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin are vulnerable to an exploit that allows hackers to gain administrator rights and upload malicious files and plugins The vulnerability was first reported to…

A spike in reported cyber breaches against government departments and businesses has raised fears about the nation’s capability to protect itself against escalating cyber threats. MediSecure, an electronic prescriptions provider,…

A team of hackers have finally unlocked a $3 million Bitcoin wallet after a man forgot his password for 11 years. I mean, forgetting your password is certainly a pain, but it's usually not the end of the world. But to forget your password…

Threat actors are using Domain Name System (DNS) tunneling to track when their targets open phishing emails and click on malicious links, and to scan networks for potential vulnerabilities. DNS tunneling is the encoding of data or…