Hackers of all kinds are attacking routers across the world

When hackers find a vulnerable router, they compromise it by installing malware that grants persistence, the ability to run distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, hide malicious traffic, and more. But what happens when the hackers find a router that was already compromised by a rival gang? Cybersecurity researchers from Trend Micro published a report … Read more

Visa warns dangerous new malware is attacking financial firms

Visa is warning its partners, clients, and customers, of an ongoing phishing attack that aims to deliver a banking trojan.  The Visa Payment Fraud Disruption (PDF) unit sent out a security alert to card issuers, processors, and acquirers, noting it had observed a new phishing campaign that started in late March this year.  The campaign … Read more

Hackers are already attacking this Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability, so patch now

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a new Microsoft Sharepoint Server vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, signaling that hackers have begun exploiting it in the wild. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-24955, and carries a severity score of 7.2. It is described as a critical remote code execution … Read more