Nearly 34 Ransomware Variants Observed in Hundreds of Cyberattacks in Q4 2021

The Hacker News Daily Updates [Newsletter]( [cover]( [Industrial Cybersecurity - Free Sample Chapters]( Your one-step guide to understanding industrial cyber security, its control systems, and its operations. [Download Now]( Sponsored LATEST NEWS Mar 16, 2022 [New "B1txor20" Linux Botnet Uses DNS Tunnel and Exploits Log4J Flaw]( A previously undocumented backdoor has been observed targeting Linux systems with the goal of corralling the machines into a botnet and acting as a conduit for downloading and installing rootkits. Qihoo 360's Netlab security team called it B1txor20 "based on its propagation using the file name ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [New Infinite Loop Bug in OpenSSL Could Let Attackers Crash Remote Servers]( The maintainers of OpenSSL have shipped patches to resolve a high-severity security flaw in its software library that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition when parsing certificates. Tracked as CVE-2022-0778 (CVSS score: 7.5), the issue stems from parsing a malformed certificate with ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [FBI, CISA Warn of Russian Hackers Exploiting MFA and PrintNightmare Bug]( The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released a joint advisory warning that Russia-backed threat actors hacked the network of an unnamed non-governmental entity by exploiting a combination of flaws. "As early as May ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Unpatched RCE Bug in dompdf Project Affects HTML to PDF Converters]( Researchers have disclosed an unpatched security vulnerability in "dompdf," a PHP-based HTML to PDF converter, that, if successfully exploited, could lead to remote code execution in certain configurations. "By injecting CSS into the data processed by dompdf, it can be tricked into storing a ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [German Government Warns Against Using Russia's Kaspersky Antivirus Software]( Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky on Tuesday responded to an advisory released by Germany's Federal Office of Information Security (BSI) against using the company's security solutions in the country over "doubts about the reliability of the manufacturer." Calling that the decision was made on ... [Read More]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [cover]( [Industrial Cybersecurity - Free Sample Chapters]( Your one-step guide to understanding industrial cyber security, its control systems, and its operations. [Download Now]( Sponsored This email was sent to {EMAIL}. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please [click here](. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com [Unsubscribe]( The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India