> TODAY'S SUMMARY (21 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights several significant threats and trends. Microsoft 365 is experiencing a widespread outage affecting services like Outlook and Teams, causing operational disruptions. In vulnerability news, the PHP2Shell exploit was leveraged in attacks against Check Point Gateways, while a new zero-day vulnerability in N-central named 4EverAble2Shell was exploited shortly after its proof of concept was published. Additionally, North Korean hackers have reportedly stole over $400 million in cryptocurrency through sophisticated social engineering tactics involving fake video calls. The FBI has seized $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency linked to these North Korean operations. On the patching front, Ubuntu has released updates to address various vulnerabilities, including server impersonation and server-side request forgery.
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Botnet controllers have been using cloud based systems such as the Google cloud platform as command and control nodes for infected PCs, said a researcher at Arbor Networks.
An unknown hacker - apparently protesting about terror deaths in Pakistan - has attacked the Durham Police website, forcing it to temporarily close.
Spam king Sanford Wallace has been ordered to pay US$710.7 million to social networking company Facebook following a federal court case. Wallace is said to have compromised Facebook accounts using phishing emails, and used them to send spam to other members.
It's taken a while, but the first real iPhone worm has appeared, although its payload appears to be relatively benign - unless that is, you dislike Rick Astley, the 1980s pop star from Newton le-Willows in Lancashire.
A physical pandemic such as the swine flu (H1N1) could swamp internet service providers serving residential users, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office – and the Department Of Homeland Security doesn't have a plan to deal with it.
The FBI has slammed poor security in financial institutions, after identifying a drastic rise in money being stolen from small to medium-sized businesses via spearphishing emails, it said in an intelligence note early this week.
Anti-virus companies are failing to get the joke after the release of a free arcade game for the Mac that deletes the users' files during play. Lose/Lose warns 'victims' that it is about to delete files on their hard drives before they begin playing, and it keeps its word.
Users of the Apple Mac have been warned to avoid a game called Lose/Lose which appears to include trojan programme code that deliberately deletes files on the users' hard drive.
Cisco, EMC - the parent company to RSA Security - and VMware have formed the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a collaboration designed to boost the adoption of virtualisation in the cloud.
Cellular specialist Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has unveiled a memory card for Android mobile phones that is claimed to make applications running on the host Android-compliant handset ultra-secure.
Malware authors are targeting those who missed the initial sign up for Google Wave, according to Symantec.
IT security vendor Symantec has uncovered a trojan that uses the Facebook social networking portal to communicate with a command and control (C&C) server
M86, the web and messaging security products vendor, has acquired business internet security specialist Finjan for an undisclosed sum of money. The move boosts M86's payroll to a shade more than 300 staff.
The Chip & PIN system pioneered by French banks in the 1980s - and rolled out across the UK and Europe in recent years - is to be extended to payment cards in Australia, Visa's operation there has announced.
The US has officially opened a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity in Arlington, Virginia.
Windows 7 owners are having problems installing their new operating system, especially over Vista, according to comments on Microsoft's support site.
The rapid rise in the number of swine flu cases - up by more than 50% in the UK in recent weeks and with similar infection rises in North America - has got some IT experts worried, with Gartner Group and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) both expressing concern over the internet's `last...
Tipping Point unveiled its latest intrusion prevention system this week, featuring an updated software / hardware combo that the company said is better at handling many tasks at once.
The director of the FBI and the man charged with protecting the US from cyberthreats, Rober Mueller, has given up online banking after a phishing scare.
The ability of the latest BlackBerry series of mobile phones to create a secondary remote eavesdropping voice stream has reached the headlines again, with the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issuing a warning about a new application called PhoneSnoop.