News for March 31 2024

News for March 31 2024

By I_g_o_r | Some news | 31 Mar 2024


Thousands of WordPress Websites Hacked with New Sign1 Malware

https://www.hackread.com/wordpress-websites-hacked-new-sign1-malware/

 

Prisma Finance exploited in $10 million breach

https://cointelegraph.com/news/prisma-finance-exploited-10-million

 

French cyberdefence chief warns Paris Olympics a 'target'

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-french-cyberdefence-chief-paris-olympics.html

 

FINNISH POLICE LINKED APT31 TO THE 2021 PARLIAMENT ATTACK

https://securityaffairs.com/161102/apt/finnish-police-linked-apt31-to-the-2021-parliament-attack.html

 

Vietnam Securities Broker Suffers Cyberattack That Suspended Trading

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/vietnam-securities-broker-suffered-cyberattack-that-suspended-trading

 

Giant Tiger customer data compromised in incident with third-party vendor

https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/giant-tiger-reveals-customer-data-breach

 

Hackers exploit Ray framework flaw to breach servers, hijack resources

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-ray-framework-flaw-to-breach-servers-hijack-resources

 

Two Chinese APT Groups Found Targeting ASEAN Entities

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/chinese-apts-target-asean-entities

 

Mystery malware targets Call of Duty cheaters, stealing their Bitcoin

https://cointelegraph.com/news/mystery-malware-drains-video-game-cheaters-bitcoin

 

Air Europa customers warned their data may have been leaked

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/air-europa-customers-warned-data-112102858.html

 

Municipalities in Texas, Georgia See Services Disrupted Following Ransomware Attacks

https://therecord.media/texas-georgia-municipalities-face-disruptions-from-ransomware

 

Tech trade union confirms cyberattack behind IT, email outage

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/cwu_security_incident/

 

Saudi Arabia, UAE Top List of APT-Targeted Nations in the Middle East

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/saudi-arabia-uae-top-list-of-apt-targeted-nations-in-middle-east

 

New GEOBOX Tool Hijacks Raspberry Pi, Lets Hackers Fake Location

https://www.hackread.com/geobox-tool-hijack-raspberry-pi-fake-location/

 

Gamblers Exposed On Dark Web After Hack On Australian Casino

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13234889/Star-casino-data-hack.html

 

GitHub Developers Hit in Complex Supply Chain Cyberattack

https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/github-developers-hit-in-complex-supply-chain-cyberattack

 

Leaked Documents Reveal Australia Targeted by Chinese APT31 Hackers

https://www.afr.com/technology/leaked-documents-reveal-australia-targeted-by-chinese-hackers-20240325-p5ff4h

 

Update: INC Ransom Claims Responsibility for Attack on NHS Scotland

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/nhs_scotland_cyberattack

 

Crypto Hit by $63 Million Hack of ‘Munchables’ Game in One of Year’s Biggest Exploits

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-27/crypto-hit-by-63-million-munchables-game-hack-in-one-of-year-s-biggest-exploits

 

The Communications Workers Union (CWU) confirms cyberattack behind IT, email outage

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/cwu_security_incident/

 

Lindo’s hit by ‘cybersecurity issue’ after incident at college

https://www.royalgazette.com/general/news/article/20240327/lindos-hit-by-cybersecurity-issue/

 

DDoS attack on websites of municipalities in Luxembourg

https://www.lessentiel.lu/de/story/cyberattacken-hacker-nehmen-luxemburger-gemeinden-ins-fadenkreuz-103073010

 

Cyber attack on a vocational training institution in Austria

https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20240326_OTS0116/bfi-niederoesterreich-mit-cyberattacke-konfrontiert

 

Hacker mints 1B tokens in $16M Curio smart contract exploit

https://cointelegraph.com/news/curio-smart-contract-exploit-hacker-mints-1-billion-tokens

 

Cyber attack on a street newspaper in the United Kingdom

https://therecord.media/ransomware-gang-attacks-big-issue-street-paper

 

TheMoon Malware Returns: 6,000 Asus Routers Hacked in 72 Hours

https://www.hackread.com/themoon-malware-asus-routers-hacked-in-72-hours/

 

Ransomware at a county government in Georgia, USA

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/gilmer-county-ransomware-attack/85-209499ee-b352-4cc7-a6ea-bd0bb602ca0e

 

DDoS attacks on public administration websites in the Netherlands

https://www.nu.nl/tech/6306531/cyberaanval-legt-websites-van-meerdere-provincies-plat.html?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fkonbriefing.com%2F

 

City of St. Cloud hit by cyberattack, officials say

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/city-of-st-cloud-hit-by-cyberattack

 

NHS Scotland INC Ransom threatens to leak 3TB of NHS Scotland stolen data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/inc-ransom-threatens-to-leak-3tb-of-nhs-scotland-stolen-data/#google_vignette

 

US Puts Up $10M Bounty on BlackCat Ransomware Gang Members

https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/us-10m-bounty-blackcat-ransomware-members

 

The burnable meme rune coin Zongzi @ZongZiFa_ was exploited for ~$232k (391.33 WBNB) on March 25, 2024, when the attacker inflated the price of ZongZi to make profits from the invitation rewards.

https://www.immunebytes.com/blog/list-of-largest-crypto-hacks-in-2024/

 

ParaSwap begins returning crypto after critical smart contract bug

https://cointelegraph.com/news/paraswap-return-crypto-critical-smart-contract-vulnerability

 

Investigation: data broker Near Intelligence left the coordinates of nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein's island exposed online

https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-island-visitors-data-broker-leak/

 

How in-app browsers silently subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites, and enable apps to severely undermine user privacy

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-browsers-the-worst-erosion-of-user-choice-you-havent-heard-of/

 

AI Generated Fake Obituary Websites Target Grieving Users

https://www.hackread.com/ai-generated-fake-obituary-websites-target-users/

 

Vulnerability in virtual reality systems identified

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-vulnerability-virtual-reality.html

 

Hacking internal AI chatbots with ASCII art is a security team’s worst nightmare

https://venturebeat.com/security/hacking-internal-ai-chatbots-with-ascii-art-is-a-security-teams-worst-nightmare/

 

Dashlane To Discontinue Its Authenticator App

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/03/28/1448253/dashlane-to-discontinue-its-authenticator-app

 

These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/germany_microsoft_exchange_patch/

 

US and UK Probe $20 Billion of Crypto Transfers to Russian Exchange

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-28/crypto-transfers-to-russian-exchange-worth-20-billion-probed-by-us-uk

 

Cisco Warns of Password-Spraying Attacks Targeting Secure Firewall Devices

https://securityaffairs.com/161205/hacking/cisco-warns-password-spraying-attacks.html

 

Retail Chain Hot Topic Hit by New Credential Stuffing Attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/retail-chain-hot-topic-hit-by-new-credential-stuffing-attacks

 

Singapore's Poh Heng Jewellery Hit By Data Breach, Website Down

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/poh-heng-jewellery-data-breach-customer-information-leaked-4231691

 

Cyber attack on a retail chain in Bermuda

https://www.royalgazette.com/general/news/article/20240327/lindos-hit-by-cybersecurity-issue/

 

Fake Ethena Labs token exploited for $290K on Binance Launchpool

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethena-labs-exploited-290k-binance-launchpool

 

New iMessage Phishing Campaign Targets Postal Service Users Globally

https://www.hackread.com/imessage-phishing-targets-postal-service-users/

 

AT&T confirms that data dumped online appears to be from 2019 or earlier and contains personal data of 7.6M current and 65.4M former account holders

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/30/att-reset-account-passcodes-customer-data/

 

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/

 

Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps — 1.2 million times faster than your home broadband connection

https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/fiber-optic-data-transfer-speeds-hit-a-rapid-301-tbps-12-million-times-faster-than-your-home-broadband-connection

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