Silk Typhoon Chinese state-backed hackers have reportedly breached a Treasury Department office that reviews foreign investments for national security risks. CNN reported on Friday, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter, that the attackers gained access to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) systems. The CFIUS is a government office and interagency committee…
WordPress.org has announced a new account security measure that will require accounts with capabilities to update plugins and themes to activate two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatorily. The enforcement is expected to come into effect starting October 1, 2024. “Accounts with commit access can push updates and changes to plugins and themes used by millions of WordPress…
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new stealthy piece of Linux malware that leverages an unconventional technique to achieve persistence on infected systems and hide credit card skimmer code. The malware, attributed to a financially motivated threat actor, has been codenamed sedexp by Aon’s Stroz Friedberg incident response services team. “This advanced threat, active since 2022,…
Threat actors have been exploiting the attack vector known as Sitting Ducks since at least 2019 to conduct malware delivery, phishing, brand impersonation, and data exfiltration by exploiting flaws in DNS. This widespread flaw, affecting multiple DNS providers, enables domain hijacking without detection. Besides this, the researchers from Infoblox and Eclypsium have unveiled this critical…
YouTube Down: After Microsoft’s services went down across the world following a cybersecurity update from CrowdStrike, it now appears that Google’s video streamer YouTube is down across India. As per Downdetector, reports of YouTube outages have been flagged from major cities, including the likes of New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. Team YouTube has said that…