Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers discovered an accidentally leaked GitHub token that could have granted elevated access to the GitHub repositories of the Python.

NIST has released an urgent report to aid in the defense against an escalating threat landscape targeting artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

Iranian threat actor known as Tortoiseshell has been attributed to a new wave of watering hole attacks designed to deploy malware dubbed IMAPLoader.

VMware ESXi hypervisors are the target of a new wave of attacks exploit CVE-2021-21974 designed to deploy ransomware on compromised systems.

Ukraine, Russia-backed threat group Killnet retaliated with DDoS attacks aimed at Germany’s government, banking, and airport sites.

A spy-targeted threat actor has been spotted using a steganographic ploy to hide in a Windows logo in its attacks on Middle East governments.

Microsoft threat intelligence division assessed that a subgroup of Iranian threat actor tracked as Phosphorus is conducting ransomware attacks.

Researchers discovered an android family of modular spyware dubbed Hermit conducting surveillance on citizens of Kazakhstan by their government.

Microsoft warned of a zero-day flaw present Windows 10 and Windows Server that is being actively exploited via Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office.

The U.S. is presently combating two pandemics coronavirus and ransomware attacks, using malicious software to access and encrypt data.