Hackers
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French Electricity Provider Fined for Storing Users’ Passwords with Weak MD5 Algorithm
By: Ravie Lakshmanan The French data protection watchdog on Tuesday fined electricity provider Électricité de France €600,000 for violating the…
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Indian Energy Company Tata Power’s IT Infrastructure Hit By Cyber Attack
By: Ravie Lakshmanan Tata Power Company Limited, India’s largest integrated power company, on Friday confirmed it was targeted by a…
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North Korea’s Lazarus Hackers Targeting macOS Users Interested in Crypto Jobs
By: Ravie Lakshmanan The infamous Lazarus Group has continued its pattern of leveraging unsolicited job opportunities to deploy malware targeting…
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Irish Regulator Fines Facebook $277 Million for Leak of Half a Billion Users’ Data
By: Ravie Lakshmanan Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has levied fines of €265 million ($277 million) against Meta Platforms for…
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Attacks Erase Western Digital Network-Attached Storage Drives
The company suspects a remote code execution vulnerability affecting My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices and recommends…
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OX App Suite / OX Guard / OX Documents SSRF / Cross Site Scripting
Authored by Martin Heiland Open-Xchange OX App Suite, OX Guard, and OX Documents suffer from server-side request forgery and cross…
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Attackers Exploited 4 Zero-Day Flaws in Chrome, Safari & IE
At least two government-backed actors — including one Russian group — used the now-patched flaws in separate campaigns, Google says.…
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Ukraine Says Russia Planning Massive Cyberattacks on its Critical Infrastructures
By: Ravie Lakshmanan The Ukrainian government on Monday warned of “massive cyberattacks” by Russia targeting critical infrastructure facilities located in…
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Authorities Seize Dark-Web Site Linked to the Netwalker Ransomware
By: Ravie Lakshmanan U.S. and Bulgarian authorities this week took control of the dark web site used by the NetWalker…
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Indian Government Publishes Draft of Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022
By: Ravie Lakshmanan The Indian government on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection regulation, making it…