Cyber attack hits State Department in ‘possible serious breach’

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Social Media Account Used to Attempt Cryptocurrency Fraud Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • May 25, 2021     (Source: Tom Raftery via Flickr/CC) Carl Pei, co-founder of OnePlus, a smartphone company, said Tuesday that his Twitter account had been compromised via a third-party app called IFTTT and…

CVSS N/A 2021-03-03 01:15:00 2021-03-03 01:15:00 Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2021-26412, CVE-2021-26854, CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, CVE-2021-27078.

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of data breach trends as well as other updates. In this report, you’ll hear (click on player beneath image to listen): ISMG’s Mathew Schwartz describe how phishing, ransomware and unauthorized access remain the leading causes of personal data breaches in Britain; …

Amid heightened border tensions between India and China, cybersecurity researchers have revealed a concerted campaign against India’s critical infrastructure, including the nation’s power grid, from Chinese state-sponsored groups. The attacks, which coincided with the standoff between the two nations in May 2020, targeted a total of 12 organizations, 10 of which are in the power…

Fancy Product Designer, a WordPress plugin installed on over 17,000 sites, has been discovered to contain a critical file upload vulnerability that’s being actively exploited in the wild to upload malware onto sites that have the plugin installed. Wordfence’s threat intelligence team, which discovered the flaw, said it reported the issue to the plugin’s developer…

Hardware maker has issued an update to fix multiple critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities that have gone undetected since 2009. Hundreds of millions of Dell laptops, notebooks, and tablets are at risk of compromise from a set of five high-severity flaws that have been undetected since at least 2009. The flaws allow an attacker who already has…