TechCrunch reports that mobile consumer-grade stalkerware apps Highster and PhoneSpector have seemingly ended operations following a settlement between Patrick Hinchy, whose tech firm consortium was behind both apps, and the New York Attorney General last February that involved the payment of $410,000 in fines to resolve charges of aggressive spyware promotions in New York state.
Separate cyberattacks have been disclosed by Chicago-based Lurie Children's Hospital and the Village of Skokie in Illinois before the weekend, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
High-profile organizations around the world have been targeted with NTLM v2 hash relay attacks by Russian state-backed threat operation APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, BlueDelta, Pawn Storm, and Forest Blizzard, between April 2022 and November 2023, according to The Hacker News.
Popular instant messaging service Telegram has become a haven for cybercriminals and other threat actors looking to conduct phishing attacks due to the widespread availability of malicious tools and hackers-for-hire services across the platform, according to The Hacker News.
TechCrunch reports that U.S. enterprise cybersecurity firm Proofpoint has confirmed that it will be removing 280 positions around the world, or nearly 6% of its workforce, as part of its latest cutback, which were initially reported by Calcalist.
Health, transportation, logistics, and transportation organizations across Italy have been targeted by the UNC4990 threat operation in a new attack campaign involving weaponized USB drives used to facilitate the distribution of malware hosted on widely used websites, reports The Hacker News.
Numerous security issues impacting Juniper Networks' Junos OS and its J-Web configuration interface leveraged by its EX switches and SRX firewalls have been resolved as part of recently issued updates, reports SecurityWeek.
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