January 2024

Apple Issues Patch for Critical Zero-Day in iPhones, Macs – Update Now

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In response to a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild, Apple provided security upgrades on Monday for the Safari web browser, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Linux. A threat actor could use the problem, identified as CVE-2024-23222, which is a type confusion bug in the WebKit browser engine, to execute arbitrary […]

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BreachForums Founder Will Not Be Going To Jail

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Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, who founded and oversaw BreachForums, received a sentence of time served and 20 years of supervised release. Fitzpatrick, also known online as “pompompurin,” was detained in New York in March 2023 and charged with possessing child pornography and conspiring to commit access device fraud. After posting a $300,000 bond and entering a

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Syrian Hackers are Giving Cybercriminals Access to a Covert C#-based Silver RAT.

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A remote access trojan (RAT) known as Silver RAT, developed by threat actors going by the moniker Anonymous Arabic, can run concealed apps covertly and evade security measures. Cybersecurity company Cyfirma stated in a research released last week that “the developers operate on multiple hacker forums and social media platforms, showcasing an active and sophisticated

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29-Year-Old Ukrainian Cryptojacking Kingpin Taken into Arrest for Abusing Cloud Services

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As part of a “sophisticated cryptojacking scheme,” a 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been detained; the operation brought in over $2 million (€1.8 million) in illegal revenues. With assistance from Europol and an unidentified cloud service provider, the National Police of Ukraine captured the individual dubbed the “mastermind” of the operation on January 9 in Mykolaiv,

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