After buying an Android TV box on Amazon, Canadian security researcher Daniel Milisic discovered pre-installed malware. The affected device, the T95 Android TV box with an Allwinner T616 SoC, is also available in Germany on Amazon.de. It can also be purchased through Aliexpress or other e-commerce platforms. However, it is…

Universities and colleges are always the target of hacker attacks. A newspaper research shows: In Stuttgart and Tübingen, the IT security of the universities was not sufficient. Security gaps that make it possible to spy on data, grades and certificates from students or employees — sometimes for years. This is…

Organizations in East Asia are being targeted by a likely Chinese-speaking actor dubbed DragonSpark while employing uncommon tactics to go past security layers. “The attacks are characterized by the use of the little known open source SparkRAT and malware that attempts to evade detection through Golang source code interpretation,” SentinelOne said…

Did you know that in 2022 more than 10 TB of data was stolen every month in ransomware attacks as per some reports? As per some other estimates, almost $111,737,688.23 have been paid in ransomware demands and payouts across the world — and these are just the tracked numbers. According to…

KEY POINTS — The FBI said it was “able to confirm” that Lazarus Group, aka APT38, a group linked to North Korea, was responsible for the attack on the so-called Horizon bridge last year. — Hackers stole $100 million worth of cryptocurrencies in the attack on the Horizon bridge…

Francine tells how the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital fell in a few days after a cyberattack. Sylvain, IT manager at Manutan, recounts the shock, the slow restart and the omerta around cyberattacks. — Francine is coordinator of the medical secretariats of the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital. During the night of Saturday August 20 to Sunday August 21, 2022, on the screens of the hospital’s computers, encrypted messages appear. Caregivers first think of a computer bug, then the people in charge of computer on-call duty recognize…

Hackers cleverly cobbled together a suite of open source software — including a novel RAT — and hijacked servers owned by ordinary businesses. We imagine that the world’s most successful hackers write their own dangerous code and invest heavily in the technologies they use to breach their targets. In recent months…

Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war on February 24th 2022, anxieties over cyberwarfare have grown, with President Biden warning that Russian cyberattacks were “coming,” shortly after the invasion. Yet, many IT professionals aren’t as concerned over the impact of state-sponsored threats. Today, attack surface visibility provider Armis released the State…

More than 1,600 instances of the Cacti device monitoring tool reachable over the internet are vulnerable to a critical security issue that hackers have already started to exploit. Cacti is an operational and fault management monitoring solution for network devices that also provides graphical visualization. There are thousands of instances deployed…