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Popular employee monitoring software hijacked to launch ransomware attacks
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Popular employee monitoring software hijacked to launch ransomware attacks

Hackers are using backdoors to drop Kickidler, a legitimate employee monitoring tool The tool is used to obtain login credentials and deploy an...

FBI warns outdated routers are being hacked and hijacked for criminal purposes
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FBI warns outdated routers are being hacked and hijacked for criminal purposes

FBI report warns on risk targeting outdated routers Numerous models have known vulnerabilities and are no longer supported FBI claims hackers are assimilating...

Gmail servers hijacked by malicious PyPI packages to spread havoc – here’s how to stay safe
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Gmail servers hijacked by malicious PyPI packages to spread havoc – here’s how to stay safe

Socket found seven malicious packages on PyPI The packages were abusing Gmail and WebSocket They were removed from the platform Several malicious PyPI...

Old Stripe APIs are being hijacked for credit card skimmer attacks
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Old Stripe APIs are being hijacked for credit card skimmer attacks

Researchers found more than four dozen ecommerce sites infected with a credit card skimmer The skimmer abused a deprecated Stripe API to validate...

Thousands of PostgreSQL servers are being hijacked to mine crypto
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Thousands of PostgreSQL servers are being hijacked to mine crypto

Researchers at Wiz spot a new cryptojacking campaign It has targeted more than 1,500 misconfigured PostgreSQL servers A variant of the infamous XMRig...

A key WordPress feature has been hijacked to show malicious code, spam images
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A key WordPress feature has been hijacked to show malicious code, spam images

Researchers from Sucuri found malicious code hiding in the mu-plugins directory The malware redirected visitors, served spam, and could even drop malware The...

Thousands of websites have now been hijacked by this devious, and growing, malicious scheme
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Thousands of websites have now been hijacked by this devious, and growing, malicious scheme

Researchers find more than 150,000 compromised websites The websites carried malware that overlaid them with malicious landing pages Web admins are advised to...

Solar grids could be hijacked and even potentially disabled by these security flaws
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Solar grids could be hijacked and even potentially disabled by these security flaws

Experts claim solar inverter vulnerabilities could lead to damage to the power grid Devices could be taken over and switched off, increasing grid...

Microsoft Stream classic domain hijacked, causing spam across SharePoint
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Microsoft Stream classic domain hijacked, causing spam across SharePoint

An old Microsoft Stream domain was recently hijacked Many SharePoint sites with embedded videos displayed the malicious content Microsoft quickly addressed the issue,...