BreachForums, an alternative to the cybercrime marketplace RaidForums, has recently announced its shutdown following the arrest of its alleged administrator, Conor Brian Fitzpatrick. In a short span of roughly a year, the website had rapidly gained a membership of 192,000 users. Last week, US authorities arrested Fitzpatrick for running BreachForums and this week, the administrator…
This week, Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence and research unit unveiled two high-severity vulnerabilities present in WellinTech’s KingHistorian industrial data historian software. This software is used to collect and process data from industrial control systems (ICSs). One of these vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-45124, can allow an attacker to obtain the username and password of a legitimate…
Mar 10, 2023 marks the latest cyber attack and malware campaign launched by North Korea espionage group, UNC2970. This malicious attack employed previously undocumented malware families in a spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. and European media and technology organizations since June 2022. The attack is comprised of two threat clusters tracked as UNC577 (aka Temp.Hermit) and…