Are Your APIs Leaking Sensitive Data?
It’s no secret that data leaks have become a major concern for both citizens and institutions across the globe. They can cause serious damage to an organization’s reputation, induce considerable financial losses, and even have serious legal repercussions. From the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal to the Equifax data breach, there have been some pretty high-profile […]
Mastermind Behind iSpoof Fraud Website Sentenced to 13 Years in the UK
By Waqas The founder of iSpoof is named Tejay Fletcher and is from the Western Gateway area of London, England. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mastermind Behind iSpoof Fraud Website Sentenced to 13 Years in the UK
Sharing your business’s data with ChatGPT: How risky is it?
The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. As a natural language processing model, ChatGPT – and other similar machine learning-based language models – is trained on huge amounts of textual […]
U.K. Fraudster Behind iSpoof Scam Receives 13-Year Jail Term for Cyber Crimes
A U.K. national responsible for his role as the administrator of the now-defunct iSpoof online phone number spoofing service has been sentenced to 13 years and 4 months in prison. Tejay Fletcher, 35, of Western Gateway, London, was awarded the sentence on May 18, 2023. He pleaded guilty last month to a number of cyber offenses, including facilitating fraud […]
KeePass Exploit Allows Attackers to Recover Master Passwords from Memory
A proof-of-concept (PoC) has been made available for a security flaw impacting the KeePass password manager that could be exploited to recover a victim’s master password in cleartext under specific circumstances. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-32784, impacts KeePass versions 2.x for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and is expected to be patched in version 2.54, which is likely to […]
PyPI Repository Under Attack: User Sign-Ups and Package Uploads Temporarily Halted
The maintainers of Python Package Index (PyPI), the official third-party software repository for the Python programming language, have temporarily disabled the ability for users to sign up and upload new packages until further notice. “The volume of malicious users and malicious projects being created on the index in the past week has outpaced our ability […]
Meet ‘Jack’ from Romania! Mastermind Behind Golden Chickens Malware
The identity of the second threat actor behind the Golden Chickens malware has been uncovered courtesy of a fatal operational security blunder, cybersecurity firm eSentire said. The individual in question, who lives in Bucharest, Romania, has been given the codename Jack. He is one of the two criminals operating an account on the Russian-language Exploit.in […]
Notorious Cyber Gang FIN7 Returns Cl0p Ransomware in New Wave of Attacks
The notorious cybercrime group known as FIN7 has been observed deploying Cl0p (aka Clop) ransomware, marking the threat actor’s first ransomware campaign since late 2021. Microsoft, which detected the activity in April 2023, is tracking the financially motivated actor under its new taxonomy Sangria Tempest. “In these recent attacks, Sangria Tempest uses the PowerShell script POWERTRASH to load
Samsung Devices Under Active Exploitation! CISA Warns of Critical Flaw
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of active exploitation of a medium-severity flaw affecting Samsung devices. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-21492 (CVSS score: 4.4), impacts select Samsung devices running Android versions 11, 12, and 13. The South Korean electronics giant described the issue as an information disclosure flaw that could be exploited by a
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT App for iOS, Bolstering Accessibility and Safety
By Habiba Rashid While the ChatGPT app is currently available exclusively for iOS users, OpenAI assures Android users that they are next in line to experience the benefits of the app. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: OpenAI Launches ChatGPT App for iOS, Bolstering Accessibility and Safety