Ngioweb Botnet Fuels NSOCKS Residential Proxy Network Exploiting IoT Devices
The malware known as Ngioweb has been used to fuel a notorious residential proxy service called NSOCKS, as well as by other services such as VN5Socks and Shopsocks5, new findings from Lumen Technologies reveal. “At least 80% of NSOCKS bots in our telemetry...
Hackers Hijack Unsecured Jupyter Notebooks to Stream Illegal Sports Broadcasts
Malicious actors are exploiting misconfigured JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks to conduct stream ripping and enable sports piracy using live streaming capture tools. The attacks involve the hijack of unauthenticated Jupyter Notebooks to establish initial access, and...
Privileged Accounts, Hidden Threats: Why Privileged Access Security Must Be a Top Priority
Privileged accounts are well-known gateways for potential security threats. However, many organizations focus solely on managing privileged access—rather than securing the accounts and users entrusted with it. This emphasis is perhaps due to the persistent challenges...
New ‘Helldown’ Ransomware Variant Expands Attacks to VMware and Linux Systems
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Linux variant of a relatively new ransomware strain called Helldown, suggesting that the threat actors are broadening their attack focus. “Helldown deploys Windows ransomware derived from the LockBit 3.0...
Chinese Hackers Exploit T-Mobile and Other U.S. Telecoms in Broader Espionage Campaign
U.S. telecoms giant T-Mobile has confirmed that it was also among the companies that were targeted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to valuable information. The adversaries, tracked as Salt Typhoon, breached the company as part of a “monthslong...
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