Details have emerged about a vulnerability impacting the "wall" command of the util-linux package that could be potentially exploited by a bad actor to leak a user's password or alter the clipboard on certain Linux distributions. The bug, tracked as CVE-2024-28085,...

Breach notification letters sent to potentially impacted customers this week reveal that attackers targeted Hot Topic Rewards accounts in automated attacks using login information obtained from an unknown source.

Bedrock Security, a Menlo Park, CA-based data security company, raised $10M in Seed funding. The round was led by Greylock. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and development efforts.

UnitedHealth Group has publicly acknowledged that data was "taken" in the cyberattack on its Change Healthcare unit and said it has started analyzing the types of sensitive personal, financial, and health information potentially compromised.

This vulnerability, assigned as CVE-2024-1313 with a CVSS score of 6.5, allows low-privileged Grafana users to delete dashboard snapshots belonging to other organizations using the snapshot's keys, impacting the integrity of the system.

The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository briefly suspended new user sign-ups following an influx of malicious projects uploaded as part of a typosquatting campaign. It said "new project creation and new user registration" was temporarily halted to...

The Police of Finland (aka Poliisi) has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country's Parliament in 2020. The intrusion, per the authorities, is said to have occurred between fall 2020 and early...

A Linux version of a multi-platform backdoor called DinodasRAT has been detected in the wild targeting China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, new findings from Kaspersky reveal. DinodasRAT, also known as XDealer, is a C++-based malware that offers the ability to...

A sophisticated phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called Darcula has set its sights on organizations in over 100 countries by leveraging a massive network of more than 20,000 counterfeit domains to help cyber criminals launch attacks at scale. "Using iMessage and...

Cybercrooks are exploring ways to develop custom, malicious large language models after existing tools such as WormGPT failed to cater to their demands for advanced intrusion capabilities, security researchers said.