More than 600,000 internet routers across several Midwest states have been taken offline by a widespread cyberattack against an unnamed U.S. telecommunications firm last October that involved the distribution of a malicious firmware update, Reuters reports.
Cybernews reports that updates have been introduced to the LightSpy surveillance tool to expand its targeting to systems running on older iterations of macOS after initially only targeting iOS devices.
Vulnerable Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS firewalls impacted by the flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-3400, have been targeted by suspected Lazarus Group-linked threat actors to distribute an updated version of the RedTail cryptocurrency mining malware since late April, according to Security Boulevard.
Georgia resident Malachi Mullings has been sentenced to a decade-long imprisonment for his involvement in business email compromise and romance scams, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
