THN Cybersecurity Recap: Last Week’s Top Threats and Trends (September 23-29)

30/09/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Hold onto your hats, folks, because the cybersecurity world is anything but quiet! Last week, we dodged a bullet when we discovered vulnerabilities in CUPS that could’ve opened the door

A Hacker’s Era: Why Microsoft 365 Protection Reigns Supreme

30/09/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Imagine a sophisticated cyberattack cripples your organization’s most critical productivity and collaboration tool — the platform you rely on for daily operations. In the blink of an eye, hackers encrypt

Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext

30/09/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that

Crypto Scam App Disguised as WalletConnect Steals $70K in Five-Month Campaign

28/09/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Android app on the Google Play Store that enabled the threat actors behind it to steal approximately $70,000 in cryptocurrency from victims over a

U.S. Charges Three Iranian Nationals for Election Interference and Cybercrimes

28/09/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

U.S. federal prosecutors on Friday unsealed criminal charges against three Iranian nationals who are allegedly employed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their targeting of current and former

Progress Software Releases Patches for 6 Flaws in WhatsUp Gold – Patch Now

27/09/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Progress Software has released another round of updates to address six security flaws in WhatsUp Gold, including two critical vulnerabilities. The issues, the company said, have been resolved in version

Critical Linux CUPS Printing System Flaws Could Allow Remote Command Execution

27/09/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

A new set of security vulnerabilities has been disclosed in the OpenPrinting Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) on Linux systems that could permit remote command execution under certain conditions. “A

New HTML Smuggling Campaign Delivers DCRat Malware to Russian-Speaking Users

27/09/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Russian-speaking users have been targeted as part of a new campaign distributing a commodity trojan called DCRat (aka DarkCrystal RAT) by means of a technique known as HTML smuggling. The

Cybersecurity Certifications: The Gateway to Career Advancement

27/09/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, cybersecurity has become a cornerstone of organizational resilience. As cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated, the demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals has never been higher. Whether

Microsoft Identifies Storm-0501 as Major Threat in Hybrid Cloud Ransomware Attacks

27/09/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The threat actor known as Storm-0501 has targeted government, manufacturing, transportation, and law enforcement sectors in the U.S. to stage ransomware attacks. The multi-stage attack campaign is designed to compromise