Cisco’s enterprise-facing Webex video conferencing and messaging utility monitors the microphone at all times, even when the user’s microphone is muted in the software, according to warning from a group of academic researchers.
FBI Warns of ‘Reverse’ Instant Payments Phishing Schemes
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert on a new phishing scheme aimed at tricking victims into making money transfers to accounts controlled by cybercriminals.
GitHub Warns of Private Repositories Downloaded Using Stolen OAuth Tokens
GitHub has sounded the alarm on a cyberattack that resulted in the private repositories of dozens of organizations being downloaded by an unauthorized party abusing stolen OAuth user tokens.
The incident was identified on April 12, when the code hosting platform observed suspicious activity on its npm production infrastructure.
North Korea APT Lazarus Targeting Chemical Sector
Threat hunters at Symantec have spotted signs that North Korea’s Lazarus APT group is targeting companies in the chemical sector in an ongoing cyberespionage campaign that includes fake job lures and clever social engineering.
U.S. Gov Blames North Korea Hackers for $600M Cryptocurrency Heist
The U.S. government says the recent $600 million Ronin Validator cryptocurrency heist was conducted by Lazarus Group, the notorious hacking outfit linked to the North Korean government.
Critical Code Execution Flaw Haunts VMware Cloud Director
Cloud computing and virtualization technology firm VMWare on Thursday rolled out patches for an extremely critical security flaw in the VMWare Cloud Director product, warning that unpatched systems are at risk of remote code execution attacks.
VMWare Confirms Workspace One Exploits in the Wild
Less than a week after patching critical security defects affecting multiple enterprise-facing products, VMWare is warning that one of the flaws is being exploited in the wild.
Microsoft Seizes Control of Notorious Zloader Cybercrime Botnet
Microsoft has disrupted the operation of one of the most notorious cybercrime botnets and named a Crimean hacker as an alleged perpetrator behind the distribution of ransomware to the network of infected machines.
Microsoft Patches 128 Windows Flaws, New Zero-Day Reported by NSA
Microsoft on Tuesday issued a warning for an in-the-wild zero-day attack hitting Windows users and raised eyebrows when it credited the U.S. government National Security Agency (NSA) with reporting the live exploitation.
Adobe Patches Gaping Security Holes in Acrobat, Reader, Photoshop
Adobe’s security update engine revved into overdrive this month with the release of patches for at least 78 documented software vulnerabilities, some serious enough to expose corporate customers to remote code execution attacks.












