In response to the U.S. government’s ban on Kaspersky products, the Russian cybersecurity firm has automatically replaced its antivirus software on American computers with UltraAV, without prior warning. The sudden switch occurred through an automatic update on September 19, 2024, following Kaspersky’s inclusion on the U.S. Entity List due to national security concerns.
US cybersecurity officials are urging millions of Americans to update their Apple devices immediately to avoid potential hacking threats.
Act quickly to retain ownership of your aging Google accounts. Commencing this week, on December 1, Google is set to eliminate inactive accounts, erasing all associated content, including Gmail messages, Photos, Calendar events, Contacts records, YouTube videos, and Drive documents.
Threat actors are capitalizing on undisclosed vulnerabilities in select routers and network video recorder (NVR) devices to construct a Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as InfectedSlurs.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) jointly warned about the North Korea-linked Lazarus hacking group exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MagicLine4NX software, developed by South Korean company Dream Security. This joint certificate program, facilitating logins and digital transactions, has become a target for supply-chain attacks.
Fidelity National Financial (FNF), a Fortune 500 insurance company, has officially acknowledged falling victim to a cybersecurity incident, as reported in an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company disclosed the forced shutdown of several systems, affecting key services related to title insurance, escrow, mortgage transactions, and technology for the real estate and mortgage… Read More »
Jump Trading Group has reportedly distanced itself from Wormhole, a crypto project under its crypto investing arm, as part of its broader retreat from the unpredictable digital-assets market.
Malicious actors have capitalized on Ethereum’s ‘Create2’ function to elude wallet security alerts, resulting in the pilfering of $60 million from 99,000 individuals within six months, as revealed by Web3 anti-scam experts at ‘Scam Sniffer.’
Over $100 million in digital assets was illicitly transferred from Poloniex’s crypto wallet, prompting blockchain security firms to suspect a significant security breach.
A recently discovered software-based fault injection attack named CacheWarp poses a threat to AMD SEV-protected virtual machines, potentially allowing unauthorized access, privilege escalation, and remote code execution.