Researchers have successfully dismantled an extensive ad fraud scheme, known as VASTFLUX, that affected over 1,700 applications from 120 publishers and impacted around 11 million devices. According to fraud prevention firm HUMAN, VASTFLUX was a malvertising attack that injected malicious JavaScript code into digital ad creatives, allowing the fraudsters to stack multiple invisible video ad

According to a report by the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team, the Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Gamaredon has continued its digital attacks against Ukraine, utilizing the popular messaging app Telegram to target the country’s military and law enforcement sectors. The group, also known by various other names such as Actinium, Armageddon, Iron

On Friday, DevOps platform CircleCI announced that it had experienced a data breach as a result of a “sophisticated attack” on December 16, 2022. The incident involved an employee’s laptop being compromised by unknown actors, who then used malware to steal the employee’s two-factor authentication-backed credentials to gain access to the company’s systems and data.

A significant portion of internet-exposed Cacti servers remain unpatched against a recently discovered critical security vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild, according to attack surface management platform Censys. Out of a total of 6,427 servers, only 26 were found to be running a patched version of Cacti (1.2.23 and 1.3.0). The vulnerability

A recent surge in attacks utilizing the Gootkit malware loader has targeted the Australian healthcare sector, according to cybersecurity firm Trend Micro. The malware, also known as Gootloader, is known for using search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning tactics to gain initial access. It typically works by compromising legitimate infrastructure and planting malware on those sites