Bill Toulas
Author Bio
Bill Toulas is a tech writer and infosec news reporter with over a decade of experience working on various online publications, covering open-source, Linux, malware, data breach incidents, and hacks.
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Cybercriminals pose as LastPass staff to hack password vaults
LastPass is warning of a malicious campaign targeting its users with the CryptoChameleon phishing kit that is associated with cryptocurrency theft.
- April 18, 2024
- 10:56 AM
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LabHost phishing service with 40,000 domains disrupted, 37 arrested
The LabHost phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform has been disrupted in a year-long global law enforcement operation that compromised the infrastructure and arrested 37 suspects, among them the original developer.
- April 18, 2024
- 05:52 AM
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SoumniBot malware exploits Android bugs to evade detection
A new Android banking malware named 'SoumniBot' is using a less common obfuscation approach by exploiting weaknesses in the Android manifest extraction and parsing procedure.
- April 17, 2024
- 05:38 PM
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FIN7 targets American automaker’s IT staff in phishing attacks
The financially motivated threat actor FIN7 targeted a large U.S. car maker with spear-phishing emails for employees in the IT department to infect systems with the Anunak backdoor.
- April 17, 2024
- 04:40 PM
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Russian Sandworm hackers pose as hacktivists in water utility breaches
The Sandworm hacking group associated with Russian military intelligence has been hiding attacks and operations behind multiple online personas posing as hacktivist groups.
- April 17, 2024
- 01:08 PM
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Multiple botnets exploiting one-year-old TP-Link flaw to hack routers
At least six distinct botnet malware operations are hunting for TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) routers vulnerable to a command injection security issue reported and addressed last year.
- April 17, 2024
- 09:03 AM
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Cerebral to pay $7 million settlement in Facebook pixel data leak case
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with telehealth firm Cerebral in which the company will pay $7,000,000 over allegations of mishandling people's sensitive health data.
- April 16, 2024
- 05:37 PM
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Google to crack down on third-party YouTube apps that block ads
YouTube announced yesterday that third-party applications that block ads while watching YouTube videos violates its Terms of Service (ToS), and it will soon start taking action against the apps.
- April 16, 2024
- 02:01 PM
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Cisco warns of large-scale brute-force attacks against VPN services
Cisco warns about a large-scale credential brute-forcing campaign targeting VPN and SSH services on Cisco, CheckPoint, Fortinet, SonicWall, and Ubiquiti devices worldwide.
- April 16, 2024
- 12:11 PM
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PuTTY SSH client flaw allows recovery of cryptographic private keys
A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-31497 in PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 could potentially allow attackers with access to 60 cryptographic signatures to recover the private key used for their generation.
- April 16, 2024
- 11:01 AM
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New SteganoAmor attacks use steganography to target 320 orgs globally
A new campaign conducted by the TA558 hacking group is concealing malicious code inside images using steganography to deliver various malware tools onto targeted systems.
- April 15, 2024
- 04:31 PM
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Crypto miner arrested for skipping on $3.5 million in cloud server bills
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the arrest and indictment of Charles O. Parks III, known as "CP3O," for allegedly renting large numbers of cloud servers to conduct crypto mining and then skipping out on paying the bills.
- April 15, 2024
- 02:10 PM
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Chipmaker Nexperia confirms breach after ransomware gang leaks data
Dutch chipmaker Nexperia confirmed late last week that hackers breached its network in March 2024 after a ransomware gang leaked samples of allegedly stolen data.
- April 15, 2024
- 12:00 PM
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Cisco Duo warns third-party data breach exposed SMS MFA logs
Cisco Duo's security team warns that hackers stole some customers' VoIP and SMS logs for multi-factor authentication (MFA) messages in a cyberattack on their telephony provider.
- April 15, 2024
- 10:52 AM
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Firebird RAT creator and seller arrested in the U.S. and Australia
A joint police operation between the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the FBI has led to the arrest and charging of two individuals who are believed to be behind the development and distribution of the "Firebird" remote access trojan (RAT), later rebranded as "Hive."
- April 13, 2024
- 10:17 AM
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