Over 15,000 WordPress Sites Compromised in Malicious SEO Campaign

The Hacker News Daily Updates 7 Passwordless Approaches for B2C Passwords are problematic. They are hard to remember, and they don’t work well. Passwords can be guessed or leaked. Today’s technology allows for better authentication, without passwords. It’s time to move on and join the cutting edge. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Nov 15, 2022 Deep Packet Inspection vs. Metadata Analysis of Network Detection & Response (NDR) Solutions Today, most Network Detection and Response (NDR) solutions rely on traffic mirroring and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). Traffic mirroring is typically deployed on a single-core switch to provide a copy of the network traffic to a sensor that uses DPI to thoroughly analyze the payload. While this ... Read More Researchers Say China State-backed Hackers Breached a Digital Certificate Authority A suspected Chinese state-sponsored actor breached a digital certificate authority as well as government and defense agencies located in different countries in Asia as part of an ongoing campaign since at least March 2022. Symantec, by Broadcom Software, linked the attacks to an adversarial group ... Read More How Threat Actors Block Ads and Get Extra Features on Your Apps for Free Threat actors know how to block ads, bypass premium features and content, and access originally unavailable capabilities (causing you to lose revenue). In this webinar, you will learn the right security measures to mitigate this ... Read More Google to Pay $391 Million Privacy Fine for Secretly Tracking Users' Location Internet giant Google has agreed to pay a record $391.5 million to settle with 40 states in the U.S. over charges the company misled users about the collection of personal location data. "Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, when, ... Read More New "Earth Longzhi" APT Targets Ukraine and Asian Countries with Custom Cobalt Strike Loaders Entities located in East and Southeast Asia as well as Ukraine have been targeted at least since 2020 by a previously undocumented subgroup of APT41, a prolific Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT). Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, which christened the espionage crew Earth Longzhi, said the ... Read More Over 15,000 WordPress Sites Compromised in Malicious SEO Campaign A new malicious campaign has compromised over 15,000 WordPress websites in an attempt to redirect visitors to bogus Q&A portals. "These malicious redirects appear to be designed to increase the authority of the attacker's sites for search engines," Sucuri researcher Ben Martin said in a report ... Read More What is an External Penetration Test? A penetration test (also known as a pentest) is a security assessment that simulates the activities of real-world attackers to identify security holes in your IT systems or applications.  The aim of the test is to understand what vulnerabilities you have, how they could be exploited, and what the ... Read More New KmsdBot Malware Hijacking Systems for Mining Crypto and Launch DDoS Attacks A newly discovered evasive malware leverages the Secure Shell (SSH) cryptographic protocol to gain entry into targeted systems with the goal of mining cryptocurrency and carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Dubbed KmsdBot by the Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team ... Read More 7 Passwordless Approaches for B2C Passwords are problematic. They are hard to remember, and they don’t work well. Passwords can be guessed or leaked. Today’s technology allows for better authentication, without passwords. It’s time to move on and join the cutting edge. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to myemailku.ghdbrevo2018@blogger.com. 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