Author: Kaval Joshi
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Romania’s Election System Suffered 85000 Attacks Approaching Elections!
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Documents declassified by Romania’s top security council last Wednesday revealed that the country suffered over 85,000 cyber attacks leading up to and during the course of its most recent elections which resulted in credentials for election-related websites being leaked on Russian cybercrime forums a few days before the presidential election.…
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Hackers Hacking Hackers: Turla Exploits Storm-0156 to Siphon Data
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Sometimes hackers don’t even bother doing their own hacking and instead latch on to other hackers who they know have been successful in their attacks. One such Russia-linked Advance Persistent Threat(APT) group Turla(a.k.a Secret Blizzard) has been linked to a campaign that involved infiltrating the command and control(C2) servers of…
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Windows Cyber Attack Warning: Zero-Click Russian Backdoors Confirmed!
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Prominent Russia-linked hacker group RomCom has been discovered using a chain of previously unknown Zero-Day vulnerabilities, one with a severity rating of 9.8 and the other of 8.8. The vulnerabilities exist in the Mozilla Firefox browser and Windows itself. They can be exploited in order to install a backdoor capable…
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HDFC Life Insurance Suffers Data Breach! How to Protect Yourself
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HDFC Life disclosed a data breach yesterday, becoming the latest in a series of cyber attacks on Indian insurance companies. Star and Tata AIG both suffered similar breaches in recent times. The company disclosed the breach in a regulatory filing on the 26th of November 2024 and said that it…
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Mailware: Swiss Hackers Using Snail Mail to Distrubute Malware
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Swiss hackers are going old-school using snail mail! Switzerland’s National Cyber Security Centre(NCSC) has issued an alert about the country’s postal service being used to spread malware. Hackers have been sending letters to citizens, claiming to be from Meteo-Suisse, the nation’s Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology. The letters contain…
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Update: CISA Adds Three Vulnerabilities to its Kown Exploited Vulnerabilities(KEV) Catalog
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CISA has added three more vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities(KEV) Catalog. CVE-2024-0012: PAN-OS Authentication Bypass CVE-2024-0012 is a critical authentication bypass in the management interface of Palo Alto Networks’s PAN-OS. This vulnerability can enable an unauthenticated attacker to perform administrative actions and tamper with configurations. This issue affects PAN-OS…
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Indian Cybercrime Bust: Trio Arrested for Laundering Funds to China and Nepal via Cryptocurrency
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Three suspects were arrested late last week in Pimpri Chinchwad, Maharashtra, India, following a probe by the city’s cyber police, for links to international cybercriminal organisations. The trio reportedly ran a cybercrime operation, managing mule accounts to funnel cryptocurrency to masterminds based in China and Nepal. The investigators were originally…
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How Hackers Avoid Detection using ZIP files
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A significant part of a cybercriminal’s arsenal of tools and techniques is dedicated to evading detection by security solutions such as firewalls and antiviruses. Depending on the nature of the malware that needs to be delivered, the criminal might pick the most suited method of avoiding detection. ZIP File Concatenation…
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Winos 4.0: How Gaming Apps can be Used to Infect your Computer
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Researchers at Fortinet have observed multiple samples of an advanced malware, Winos 4.0, hidden within gaming-related applications such as speed boosters, optimization utilities, and installation tools. Winos is an advanced malware with several components handling distinct functions that collectively give the attacker complete control over the victim’s machine. The malware…
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The Ultimate Guide to Home Wi-Fi Security
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Hello there and welcome to another guide! This one is for those of you who might want your Wi-Fi to be more secure. Here are 5 simple steps to help you cover all the bases of Wi-Fi Security. We’re not just listing the steps here – we’re breaking down what…