U.S. federal agencies have until midnight Friday to disconnect Ivanti VPN devices and perform a factory reset before reconnecting them to the network. Fifteen agencies use the gateways, which were hit by likely Chinese hackers in an espionage campaign and are riddled with zero-day vulnerabilities.
Corporate VPN maker Ivanti on Wednesday began a belated patch rollout for zero-day flaws that many cybersecurity firms say paved the way for an espionage hacking operation likely conducted by China. Ivanti also disclosed two more zero-days and told customers that hackers are exploiting one of them.
Hackers are scanning the internet looking for vulnerable instances of the Jenkins server used by software developers for continuous integration and continuous delivery. There are approximately 45,000 exposed Jenkins servers susceptible to a critical remote code execution flaw.
The United States, Australia and the United Kingdom sanctioned a Russian man the governments say was behind the October 2022 hacking of Medibank, Australia's largest private health insurer. The attack was a high point in a wave of data breaches buffeting the country that year.
A December cyberattack on Ukraine's top telecom operator, which authorities in Kyiv attribute to the Russian military, will cost the parent company nearly $100 million. Ukraine in mid-December accused the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate of perpetuating the incident.
Hackers aligned with the Iranian state are masquerading as journalists to target Middle East experts and deploy a new custom backdoor that supports the Iranian government's spying agenda. Tehran may be harvesting perspectives on the Israel-Hamas conflict, according to Microsoft.
IT infrastructure mainstays including NetScaler, Atlassian and VMware on Tuesday released fixes for vulnerabilities including some allowing malicious takeover of appliances. NetScaler warned customers Tuesday of two zero-day vulnerabilities that researchers say are being exploited in the wild.
Google released an urgent fix for the first zero-day vulnerability of the year in its Chrome web browser, warning the bug is under active exploitation. Google blamed an out-of-bounds memory access flaw in its V8 JavaScript rendering engine. It also affects Microsoft Edge browser.
Estimates of the number of devices affected by a duo of zero-days in a popular corporate VPN made by software developer Ivanti have skyrocketed from fewer than 10 to over 1,700. The flaws affect the firm's Connect Secure VPN appliance, formerly known as Pulse Secure, and Ivanti Policy Secure.
Hackers possibly connected to the Chinese government since December have exploited two zero-days in a VPN from software developer Ivanti that is widely used by governments and corporations, and a patch won't be available until later this month.
Iranian hackers targeted the Albanian Parliament using the No-Justice Wiper and other commonly used tools. Albania had severed diplomatic ties with Iran following a July cyberattack that disrupted the country's online governmental services portal.
Ukraine's security intelligence chief said Russian hackers had been responsible for severing internet access and mobile communications from telecom operator Kyivstar in December, after compromising the firm's network months ago. He said the "disastrous" cyberattack had wiped "almost everything."
This week, Orbit Chain lost $81 million in a New Year's Eve hack, Indonesian police shuttered bitcoin mining operations, dYdX named its attacker, $324,000 users fell victim to 2023 crypto phishing scams, Singapore's prime minister had a deepfake problem, and 2023 crypto losses decreased by over 50%.
The Russian military hacked into surveillance cameras to spy on Ukrainian air defenses and Kyiv's critical infrastructure during the missile and drone strikes on the capital city Tuesday. Ukraine has blocked and dismantled the cameras, and it urged users to stop sharing security camera feeds online.
Over the New Year's holiday weekend, Belarusian hacktivists shut down the country's leading state-owned media outlet, claiming they had wiped the main website servers and backups of BelTA. The group said its actions had been retaliation against President Alexander Lukashenko's propaganda campaign.
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