Cybersecurity News - Page 350

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For at least four years the defendants were orchestrating hacking campaigns against numerous companies and organizations in the United States and abroad.

The German authorities said the attack was aimed at the Heinrich Heine University, to which the Duesseldorf hospital is affiliated, and not at the UKD itself.

In July, the developers of Cerberus have put up the entire project on auction due to the crew breaking up and having no time to support the operation 24/7.

A threat actor is hacking into MSSQL servers by using weak passwords.

The researchers believe that hackers could have made use of a recent Magento 1 0day exploit that was put up for sale on an underground forum.

The Malsmoke gang has managed to abuse “practically all adult ad networks”, but this is the first time when the threat actor has hit a top publisher.

The malware specifically targets the Linknat VOS2009 / VOS3000 softswitches.

The BLURtooth vulnerability impacts all devices using the Bluetooth standard 4.0 through 5.0.

This is a first known case where attackers use legit third-party software as a backdoor that gives them full access to targeted cloud environments.