Category: Hacker News
768 CVEs Exploited in 2024, Reflecting a 20% Incre...
As many as 768 vulnerabilities with designated CVE identifiers were reported as exploited in the wild in 2024, up from 639 CVEs in...
PyPI Introduces Archival Status to Alert Users Abo...
The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) registry have announced a new feature that allows package developers to archive...
⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Too...
This week, our news radar shows that every new tech idea comes with its own challenges. A hot AI tool is under close watch, law en...
U.S. and Dutch Authorities Dismantle 39 Domains Li...
U.S. and Dutch law enforcement agencies have announced that they have dismantled 39 domains and their associated servers as part o...
BeyondTrust Zero-Day Breach Exposed 17 SaaS Custom...
BeyondTrust has revealed it completed an investigation into a recent cybersecurity incident that targeted some of the company's Re...
Meta Confirms Zero-Click WhatsApp Spyware Attack T...
Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday said it disrupted a campaign that involved the use of spyware to target journalists and civil societ...
Malvertising Scam Uses Fake Google Ads to Hijack M...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malvertising campaign that's targeting Microsoft advertisers with bogus Google ads tha...
CISA and FDA Warn of Critical Backdoor in Contec C...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts abo...
Top 5 AI-Powered Social Engineering Attacks
Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘s...
Italy Bans Chinese DeepSeek AI Over Data Privacy a...
Italy's data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek's service within the country, citi...
Google Bans 158,000 Malicious Android App Develope...
Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in ...
Broadcom Patches VMware Aria Flaws – Exploits May ...
Broadcom has released security updates to patch five security flaws impacting VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs,...
Lightning AI Studio Vulnerability Could've Allowed...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Lightning AI Studio development platform that, if success...
Unpatched PHP Voyager Flaws Leave Servers Open to ...
Three security flaws have been disclosed in the open-source PHP package Voyager that could be exploited by an attacker to achieve ...
New Aquabot Botnet Exploits CVE-2024-41710 in Mite...
A Mirai botnet variant dubbed Aquabot has been observed actively attempting to exploit a medium-severity security flaw impacting M...
Lazarus Group Uses React-Based Admin Panel to Cont...
The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been observed leveraging a "web-based administrative platform" to ove...
Google: Over 57 Nation-State Threat Groups Using A...
Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence ...
Authorities Seize Domains of Popular Hacking Forum...
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled the domains associated with various online platforms linked to cybercrim...
Lightning AI Studio Vulnerability Allowed RCE via ...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Lightning AI Studio development platform that, if success...
SOC Analysts - Reimagining Their Role Using AI
The job of a SOC analyst has never been easy. Faced with an overwhelming flood of daily alerts, analysts (and sometimes IT teams w...