FBI & CISA Warn of Active Attacks on FortiOS …

FBI & CISA Warn of Active Attacks on FortiOS …

A joint advisory warns admins of the likelihood of APT groups exploiting three vulnerabilities in the Fortinet FortiOS. Editor’s Note: This story was updated on April 2 at 5:35 PM ET to include Fortinet’s statement. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today issued a joint advisory warning admins…

GitHub Actions being actively abused to mine cryptocurrency on GitHub servers

GitHub Actions being actively abused to mine cryptocurrency on GitHub servers

GitHub Actions is currently being abused by attackers to mine cryptocurrency using GitHub’s servers in an automated attack. GitHub Actions is a CI/CD solution that makes it easy to automate all your software workflows and setup periodic tasks. The particular attack adds malicious GitHub Actions code to repositories forked from legitimate ones, and further creates a Pull Request…

APT Groups Targeting Government Agencies

APT Groups Targeting Government Agencies

Application Security , Application Security & Online Fraud , Breach Notification Three FortiOS Vulnerabilities Being Exploited for the Campaign Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 3, 2021     The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI warn that unidentified nation-state actors are scanning for three vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s operating system, FortiOS, to likely…

Personal Data for Half-Billion Facebook Users Found on Hacker Website – CBS San Francisco

Personal Data for Half-Billion Facebook Users Found on Hacker Website – CBS San Francisco

MENLO PARK (AP) — Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. The information appears to be several years old but it is another example of the vast amount of information collected by Facebook and other social media sites and the limits to how secure that…

61L Indians among over 53 cr users suffer FB data leak, IT News, ET CIO

61L Indians among over 53 cr users suffer FB data leak, IT News, ET CIO

New Delhi: A hacker has posted the phone numbers and sensitive account details of nearly 533 million Facebook users — about a fifth of the social networking platform‘s entire user base — including over 61 lakh Indian users which has been dumped on a public cybercrime forum. The leaked data includes Facebook ID numbers, profile…

APT Groups Targeting Government Agencies

APT Groups Targeting Government Agencies

Application Security , Application Security & Online Fraud , Breach Notification Three FortiOS Vulnerabilities Being Exploited for the Campaign Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 3, 2021     The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI warn that unidentified nation-state actors are scanning for three vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s operating system, FortiOS, to likely…

533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers leaked on hacker forum

533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers leaked on hacker forum

The mobile phone numbers and other personal information for approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular hacker forum for free. The stolen data first surfaced on a hacking community in June 2020 when a member began selling the Facebook data to other members. What made this leak stand out was that…

533 Million Facebook Account Records Posted to Forum

533 Million Facebook Account Records Posted to Forum

Breach Notification , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Facebook Says Data Comes from Previously Reported 2019 Incident Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 4, 2021     A security researcher has found more than 500 million Facebook records made available for free on the darknet, exposing basic user information, including any phone numbers associated with…