On Friday, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the imposition of sanctions against Hudhayfa Samir ‘Abdallah al-Kahlut, a 39-year-old individual linked to Hamas, due to his involvement in orchestrating cyber influence operations. Al-Kahlut, who is…
In an alarming development, the capability of real-time deepfakes has expanded far beyond high-profile individuals and public personalities. Research conducted at New York University by Mittal in collaboration with professors Chinmay Hegde and Nasir Memon introduces a possible solution to…
Title: Exposed Databases Reveal 4.6 Million Illinois Voter Records, Raising Security Concerns in Election Data Management In a significant breach of election data security, cybersecurity expert Jeremiah Fowler has exposed 4.6 million sensitive records, including voter details, from misconfigured databases…
Data Breach Exposes Millions of Hotel Customers’ Sensitive Information A significant data breach at Prestige Software, a provider of hotel reservation systems, has potentially compromised the sensitive information of millions of hotel customers. The breach was uncovered by cybersecurity research…
Emerging Threat Actor CeranaKeeper Targets Southeast Asia in Data Exfiltration Campaigns A novel cyber threat actor, dubbed CeranaKeeper, has been implicated in a series of data exfiltration attacks focused on Southeast Asian nations, according to Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET. The…
An analytical review of cyber claims trends from Allianz. Cyber claims have shown a notable rise over the past year, significantly fueled by an increase in incidents related to data and privacy breaches, as stated by Allianz Commercial in its…
Emerging Threat: SocGholish Malware Exploits BOINC for Malicious Activities The cybersecurity landscape has recently encountered a troubling update regarding the behavior of the JavaScript downloader malware known as SocGholish (also referred to as FakeUpdates), further exacerbating existing risks for businesses…
Palo Alto Networks has issued urgent hotfixes in response to a critical security vulnerability affecting its PAN-OS software that is currently being exploited in live environments. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-3400, has received the highest severity rating with a CVSS…
In recent discussions on the handling of intimate images online, Kate Ruane, director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s free expression project, highlighted the growing recognition among major technology platforms regarding the need for policies against nonconsensual distribution of…
A hacker operating under the alias USDoD has reportedly gathered and leaked 332 million email addresses from SOCRadar.io, a significant threat intelligence platform. This incident, which was later disseminated by another actor known as Dominatrix, poses serious security threats given…
