Author: The Hacker News

Financial institutions in Latin America are being threatened by a banking trojan called Mekotio (aka Melcoz).
That’s according to findings from Trend Micro, which said it recently observed a surge in cyber attacks distributing the Windows malware.
Meko…

Four unpatched security flaws, including three critical ones, have been disclosed in the Gogs open-source, self-hosted Git service that could enable an authenticated attacker to breach susceptible instances, steal or wipe source code, and even plant ba…

Apple removed a number of virtual private network (VPN) apps in Russia from its App Store on July 4, 2024, following a request by Russia’s state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, Russian news media reported.
This includes the mobile apps of 25 VPN …

Identity theft isn’t just about stolen credit cards anymore. Today, cybercriminals are using advanced tactics to infiltrate organizations and cause major damage with compromised credentials.
The stakes are high: ransomware attacks, lateral movement, an…

French cloud computing firm OVHcloud said it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in April 2024 that reached a packet rate of 840 million packets per second (Mpps).
This is just above the previous record of 809 millio…

The attack surface isn’t what it once was and it’s becoming a nightmare to protect. A constantly expanding and evolving attack surface means risk to the business has skyrocketed and current security measures are struggling to keep it protected. If you’…

The malware known as GootLoader continues to be in active use by threat actors looking to deliver additional payloads to compromised hosts.
“Updates to the GootLoader payload have resulted in several versions of GootLoader, with GootLoader 3 currently …

The supply chain attack targeting widely-used Polyfill[.]io JavaScript library is wider in scope than previously thought, with new findings from Censys showing that over 380,000 hosts are embedding a polyfill script linking to the malicious domain as o…

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new botnet called Zergeca that’s capable of conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Written in Golang, the botnet is so named for its reference to a string named “ootheca” present in the comma…

Microsoft has revealed two security flaws in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus that could be weaponized by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.
“The [remote code execution] vulner…