Author: Ionut Ilascu

A Russian national working for a cybersecurity company has been extradited to the U.S. where he is being charged for hacking into computer networks of two U.S.-based filing agents used by multiple companies to file quarterly and annual earnings through the Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC) system. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency has contributed more than 585 million passwords to the Have I Been Pwned service that lets users check if their login information has leaked online. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

Conti ransomware operation is using the critical Log4Shell exploit to gain rapid access to internal VMware vCenter Server instances and encrypt virtual machines. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

The Hive ransomware gang is more active and aggressive than its leak site shows, with affiliates attacking an average of three companies every day since the operation became known in late June. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

As expected, nation-state hackers of all kinds have jumped at the opportunity to exploit the recently disclosed critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in the Log4j Java-based logging library. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

Open-source analytics and interactive visualization solution Grafana received an emergency update today to fix a high-severity, zero-day vulnerability that enabled remote access to local files. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

Twitter today announced the permanent removal of more than 3,400 accounts linked to governments of six countries running manipulation or spam campaigns. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

eCommerce servers are being targeted with remote access malware that hides on Nginx servers in a way that makes it virtually invisible to security solutions. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com