Trump Terminates DHS Advisory Committee Memberships, Disrupting Cybersecurity Review
Jan 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / National Security The new Trump administration has terminated all memberships of advisory committees that report...
Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in cnPilot Routers to Deploy AIRASHI DDoS Botnet
Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero-day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of the AISURU...
Discover Hidden Browsing Threats: Free Risk Assessment for GenAI, Identity, Web, and SaaS Risks
Jan 22, 2025The Hacker NewsRisk Assessment / Browser Security As GenAI tools and SaaS platforms become a staple component in...
President Trump Pardons Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison
Jan 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananDark Web / Cryptocurrency U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted a "full and unconditional pardon" to...
PlushDaemon APT Targets South Korean VPN Provider in Supply Chain Attack
A previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting...
Oracle Releases January 2025 Patch to Address 318 Flaws Across Major Products
Jan 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Enterprise Security Oracle is urging customers to apply its January 2025 Critical Patch Update (CPU)...
Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Devices
Jan 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Network Security Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked...
Mirai Variant Murdoc_Botnet Exploits AVTECH IP Cameras and Huawei Routers
Jan 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new large-scale campaign that exploits security flaws in...
13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks
Jan 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Botnet A global network of about 13,000 hijacked Mikrotik routers has been employed as...
Ex-CIA Analyst Pleads Guilty to Sharing Top-Secret Data with Unauthorized Parties
A former analyst working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pleaded guilty to transmitting top secret National Defense Information...
