Tag: service
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Europol Disrupts NoName057(16) Hacktivist Group Linked to DDoS Attacks Against Ukraine
An international operation coordinated by Europol has disrupted the infrastructure of a pro-Russian hacktivist group known as NoName057(16) that has been linked to a string of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Ukraine and its allies.The actions have led to the dismantling of a major part of the group’s central server infrastructure and more than 100…
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Cisco patches critical CVE-2025-20337 bug in Identity Services Engine with CVSS 10 Severity
Cisco warns of CVE-2025-20337, a critical ISE flaw (CVSS 10) allowing remote code execution with root privileges. Cisco addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20337 (CVSS score of 10), in Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco Identity Services Engine Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC). An attacker could trigger the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the…
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1-Click Oracle Cloud Code Editor RCE Flaw Allows Malicious File Upload to Shell
Tags: cloud, cyber, flaw, infrastructure, malicious, oracle, rce, remote-code-execution, service, threat, vulnerabilityTenable Research has disclosed a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Code Editor that enabled attackers to silently hijack victim Cloud Shell environments through a single malicious link. The vulnerability, which has since been remediated by Oracle, could have allowed threat actors to pivot across multiple OCI services and compromise integrated…
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MaaS operation using Emmenhtal and Amadey linked to threats against Ukrainian entities
Cisco Talos uncovered a stealthy Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) operation that used fake GitHub accounts to distribute a variety of dangerous payloads and evade security defenses. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/maas-operation-using-emmenhtal-and-amadey-linked-to-threats-against-ukrainian-entities/
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Review: Passwork 7.0, self-hosted password manager for business
Over the years, the number of services we use has exploded, and so has the need to protect our credentials. Back in what I like to call “the age of innocence,” we scribbled … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/17/review-passwork-7-0-password-manager-for-business/
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Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan’s Semiconductor Sector with Cobalt Strike, Custom Backdoors
The Taiwanese semiconductor industry has become the target of spear-phishing campaigns undertaken by three Chinese state-sponsored threat actors.”Targets of these campaigns ranged from organizations involved in the manufacturing, design, and testing of semiconductors and integrated circuits, wider equipment and services supply chain entities within this sector, as well as financial investment First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Ermittlern gelingt Schlag gegen prorussische Hacker
Durch eine internationale Ermittlungsaktion wurde das Servernetz der prorussischen Hackergruppe NoName057(16) lahmgelegt.Deutsche und internationale Strafverfolgungsbehörden sind bei einer gemeinsamen Aktion gegen die Hackergruppe “NoName057(16)” vorgegangen. Nach Angaben des Bundeskriminalamts (BKA) wurde dabei ein aus weltweit verteilten Servern bestehendes Botnetz abgeschaltet, das für gezielte digitale Überlastungsangriffe auf Internetseiten eingesetzt wurde. Solche sogenannten Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)-Angriffe…
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Most European Financial Firms Still Lagging on DORA Compliance
A Veeam survey found that 96% of financial services organizations believe their current levels of data resilience falls short of DORA compliance, citing major challenges First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/european-financial-dora-compliance/
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Cloudflare Confirms BGP Hijack Behind 1.1.1.1 DNS Disruption
Cloudflare has revealed that a 62-minute global outage of its popular 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver service on July 14, 2025, was caused by an internal configuration error rather than an external attack, though the incident coincided with an unrelated BGP hijack that complicated the situation. The outage, which lasted from 21:52 UTC to 22:54 UTC, affected…
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Cisco Warns of Critical ISE Flaw Allowing Unauthenticated Attackers to Execute Root Code
Cisco has disclosed a new maximum-severity security vulnerability impacting Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could permit an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system with elevated privileges.Tracked as CVE-2025-20337, the shortcoming carries a CVSS score of 10.0 and is similar to CVE-2025-20281, which was patched…
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Hackers Leverage Microsoft Teams to Spread Matanbuchus 3.0 Malware to Targeted Firms
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variant of a known malware loader called Matanbuchus that packs in significant features to enhance its stealth and evade detection.Matanbuchus is the name given to a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) offering that can act as a conduit for next-stage payloads, including Cobalt Strike beacons and ransomware.First advertised in February 2021 on…
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International operation disrupts pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16)
European and U.S. law enforcement have disrupted the operations of a pro-Russian hacker group known for launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against Ukraine and its allies. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/international-police-takedown-noname-hacker
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Cloudflare says 1.1.1.1 outage not caused by attack or BGP hijack
To quash speculation of a cyberattack or BGP hijack incident causing the recent 1.1.1.1 Resolver service outage, Cloudflare explains in a post mortem that the incident was caused by an internal misconfiguration. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-says-1111-outage-not-caused-by-attack-or-bgp-hijack/
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Europol disrupts pro-Russian NoName057(16) DDoS hacktivist group
An international law enforcement operation dubbed “Operation Eastwood” has targeted the infrastructure of the pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16), responsible for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks across Europe and the US. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/europol-disrupts-pro-russian-noname05716-ddos-hacktivist-group/
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Salt Typhoon hacked the US National Guard for 9 months, and accessed networks in every state
Tags: access, attack, best-practice, breach, credentials, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, exploit, government, group, hacking, infrastructure, Internet, malicious, military, network, service, theft, threat, vulnerabilitySensitive military data stolen: The attackers gained access to highly sensitive military and infrastructure information during the nine-month intrusion. The memo stated that “in 2024, Salt Typhoon used its access to a US state’s Army National Guard network to exfiltrate administrator credentials, network traffic diagrams, a map of geographic locations throughout the state, and PII…
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Cut Response Time with This Free, Powerful Threat Intelligence Service
Disclosure: This article was provided by ANY.RUN. The information and analysis presented are based on their research and findings. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/cut-response-time-free-powerful-threat-intelligence-service/
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Dark Partners Hacker Group Drains Crypto Wallets Using Fake AI Tools and VPN Services
The financially driven organization known as Dark Partners has been planning massive cryptocurrency theft since at least May 2025, using a complex network of more than 250 malicious domains that pose as AI tools, VPN services, cryptocurrency wallets, and well-known software brands. This is part of a rapidly developing cybercrime operation. These fake websites, distributed…
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Critical Golden dMSA Attack in Windows Server 2025 Enables Cross-Domain Attacks and Persistent Access
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what they say is a “critical design flaw” in delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSAs) introduced in Windows Server 2025.”The flaw can result in high-impact attacks, enabling cross-domain lateral movement and persistent access to all managed service accounts and their resources across Active Directory indefinitely,” Semperis said in a report shared with…
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Hackers Launched Massive DDoS Attack with 7.3 Tbps and 4.8 Billion Packets Per Second
Cloudflare’s latest DDoS Threat Report for the second quarter of 2025 reveals that the company autonomously mitigated the largest-ever recorded distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, peaking at an unprecedented 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps) and 4.8 billion packets per second (Bpps). These hyper-volumetric assaults, which surged dramatically, underscore the relentless evolution of attack vectors targeting critical…
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Massive DDoS Attack Slams Internet with 7.3 Tbps and 4.8 Billion Packets Per Second
Cloudflare’s latest DDoS Threat Report for the second quarter of 2025 reveals that the company autonomously mitigated the largest-ever recorded distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, peaking at an unprecedented 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps) and 4.8 billion packets per second (Bpps). These hyper-volumetric assaults, which surged dramatically, underscore the relentless evolution of attack vectors targeting critical…
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Former U.S. Army Member Pleads Guilty in Telecom Hacking Case
A 21-year-old former U.S. Army soldier has pleaded guilty to participating in a sophisticated cybercrime operation that targeted telecommunications companies through hacking, data theft, and extortion schemes. Cameron John Wagenius, who was stationed in Texas during his military service, admitted to conspiring with others to breach protected computer networks and demand ransom payments from victim…
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Node.js Vulnerabilities Leave Windows Apps Vulnerable to Path Traversal and HashDoS
The Node.js project has released critical security updates across multiple release lines to address two high-severity vulnerabilities that pose significant risks to Windows applications and could enable denial-of-service attacks. The vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2025-27210 and CVE-2025-27209, affect active Node.js release lines including versions 20.x, 22.x, and 24.x, prompting immediate security patches released on July 15,…
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KI im Unternehmen: Innovation ja aber nicht im Datenschutz-Blindflug
Kommentar von Sascha Kreutziger, HiScout Viele Unternehmen steuern voller Elan in Richtung KI-Zukunft oder sind bereits mittendrin. Dies ist verständlich, denn KI bietet neue Chancen: Prozesse werden automatisiert, Analysen beschleunigt, neue Services ermöglicht. Doch im Schatten dieser Euphorie lauern teils noch unbekannte Datenschutzrisiken insbesondere, wenn KI-Systeme unkontrolliert eingeführt oder genutzt werden. Die zentrale… First seen…
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Hyper-Volumetric DDoS Attacks Reach Record 7.3 Tbps, Targeting Key Global Sectors
Cloudflare on Tuesday said it mitigated 7.3 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the second quarter of 2025, a significant drop from 20.5 million DDoS attacks it fended off the previous quarter.”Overall, in Q2 2025, hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks skyrocketed,” Omer Yoachimik and Jorge Pacheco said. “Cloudflare blocked over 6,500 hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, an average of…
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Newly Emerged GLOBAL GROUP RaaS Expands Operations with AI-Driven Negotiation Tools
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation called GLOBAL GROUP that has targeted a wide range of sectors in Australia, Brazil, Europe, and the United States since its emergence in early June 2025.GLOBAL GROUP was “promoted on the Ramp4u forum by the threat actor known as ‘$$$,’” EclecticIQ researcher Arda Büyükkaya…
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Federal IT Contractor to Pay $14.75M for False Cybersecurity Services Claims
Hill ASC Inc., operating as Hill Associates and based in Rockville, Maryland, has agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to address allegations of violating the False Claims Act through improper billing practices under a General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract. The agreement mandates a payment of at…
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How phishers are weaponizing SVG images in zero-click, evasive campaigns
Innovative, evasive, and targeted campaigns: Researchers pointed out that traditional endpoint detection, antivirus tools, and even email filters struggle to spot this threat because image files like SVGs are rarely considered dangerous. Compared to previous SVG-based attacks that used hosted payloads, this method keeps everything self-contained, further slipping past defenses.Victims span B2B service providers, utilities,…
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Kafbat UI Vulnerabilities Allow Arbitrary Code Execution via JMX Services
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in Kafbat UI, a popular web-based interface for managing Apache Kafka clusters, allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems through unsafe deserialization attacks. Critical Vulnerability Details The vulnerability, designated as CVE-2025-49127, affects Kafbat UI version 1.0.0 and stems from the application’s dynamic cluster configuration functionality…
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GLOBAL GROUP RaaS Adds AI-Powered Negotiation Feature for Ransom Demands
A newly surfaced Ransomware-as-a-Service operation, dubbed GLOBAL GROUP, has begun deploying an AI”driven negotiation tool that elevates the psychological pressure on victims and streamlines extortion workflows for affiliates. Security researchers at EclecticIQ first identified GLOBAL GROUP’s activity in early June on the Ramp4u underground forum, where the threat actor known as “$$$” shared an onion…