Mobile devices using UNISOC's 4G and 5G chipsets are affected by a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20210, which has since been addressed by UNISOC, reports TechRepublic.
Thirty percent of cybersecurity professionals around the world intend to shift to other careers in at least two years, signaling the possible worsening of the cybersecurity skills shortage amid increasingly sophisticated threats, reports ZDNet.
BleepingComputer reports that vulnerable Elasticsearch databases have been targeted by threat actors who have demanded a total of $279,000 to restore 450 replaced indexes.
Foxconn Baja California in Mexico was allegedly attacked by the LockBit 2.0 ransomware gang, which has threatened the release of stolen files should the company fail to pay the demanded ransom by June 11, according to SecurityWeek.
Android malware FluBot had its infrastructure taken down following an international law enforcement operation that included authorities from the U.S. and 10 other countries, The Hacker News reports.
Boston Children's Hospital was almost impacted by an attempted cyberattack by Iranian state-sponsored hackers last year, which has been thwarted by the FBI, according to CNN.
The Hacker News reports that nearly 100,000 GitHub users had their NPM usernames and passwords, as well as email addresses compromised after GitHub's integration OAuth tokens were stolen last month.
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