[ThreatPost] Attackers Hijack Craigslist Emails to Bypass Security, Deliver Malware

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the Wikipedia portal, has banned seven Chinese users on Monday, citing a “security risk.” “We have banned seven users and desysopped a further 12 as a result of long and deep investigations into activities around some members of the unrecognized group Wikimedians of Mainland China,” Maggie Dennis, the Wikimedia Foundation’s […]

VPN Hacks Are a Slow-Motion Disaster www.wired.com/story/vpn-hacks-pulse-secure-espionage/ Recent spying attacks against Pulse Secure VPN are just the latest example of a long-simmering cybersecurity meltdown. Hacking campaign targets FileZen file-sharing network appliances therecord.media/hacking-campaign-targets-filezen-file-sharing-network-appliances/ Threat actors are using two vulnerabilities in a popular file-sharing server to breach corporate and government systems and steal sensitive data as part […]

Cyberattacks have long been seen as a threat to financial markets, but worries are becoming even more acute following a US pipeline hack that set off a public panic and forced the company to pay a ransom. Financial exchanges that manage daily transactions of tens or hundreds of billions of dollars are an appealing target […]