An advanced hacker group, Volatile Cedar, believed to be linked to the Lebanese Hezbollah Cyber Unit, has been quietly attacking companies worldwide in spying operations. The hacker likely accessed more than 250 Oracle and Atlassian servers belonging largely to enterprises providing mobile communications and internet-based services. Also known as Lebanese Cedar, Continue Reading
This week, law enforcement agencies from Bulgaria and the US have disrupted the infrastructure of NetWalker, one of 2020’s most active ransomware cliques. Bulgarian officials seized a server used to host dark web portals for the NetWalker ring, with officials in the US indicting a Canadian national who ostensibly made Continue Reading
Technology giant Apple has released security updates for iOS to fix three zero-day flaws that were exploited in the wild. An unknown researcher is said to have reported all three zero-days; patches are available as part of iOS 14.4. The first zero-day affects the iOS operating system kernel (CVE-2021-1782), and the other Continue Reading
Search engine giant Google has said that members of a cybersecurity company engaged in vulnerability research has been targeted by North Korean government threat actors. The attacks have been detected by the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG), a Google security team with expertise in hunting advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. Continue Reading
Networking device maker SonicWall has said that it is probing a security break of its internal network after noticing what it termed as a “coordinated attack.” The company in a short statement said that “highly sophisticated threat actors” targeted its internal systems by “exploiting probable zero-day flaws on certain SonicWall Continue Reading
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