Author: HackWatchit
Several cybersecurity researchers who have tracked Trickbot extensively tell WIRED they were unaware of the announcement. An anonymous account on the social media platform X recently claimed that Kovalev used the Stern handle and published alleged details about him. WIRED messaged multiple accounts that supposedly belong to Kovalev, according to the X account and a database of hacked and leaked records compiled by District 4 Labs but received no response.Meanwhile, Kovalev’s name and face may already be surprisingly familiar to those who have been following recent Trickbot revelations. This is because Kovalev was jointly sanctioned by the United States and…
Threat actors are abusing the ‘Google Apps Script’ development platform to host phishing pages that appear legitimate and steal login credentials. This new trend was spotted by security researchers at Cofense, who warn that the fraudulent login window is “carefully designed to look like a legitimate login screen.” “The attack uses an email masquerading as an invoice, containing a link to a webpage that uses Google Apps Script, a development platform integrated across Google’s suite of products,” Cofense explains. “By hosting the phishing page within Google’s trusted environment, attackers create an illusion of authenticity. This makes it easier to trick…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants Pakistan to urgently clarify its plans for allocating power to Bitcoin mining amid the country’s electricity shortages and fiscal problems, according to a local news report. The IMF delegation is expected to hold a separate virtual session with Pakistan’s Finance Ministry to specifically discuss the electricity allocation.Last week, Pakistan announced that it will allocate 2,000 megawatts of power towards the operation of Bitcoin mines and artificial intelligence (AI) data centres.The IMF, which has repeatedly warned countries against the risks of governments buying Bitcoin, sanctioned a $2.4 billion loan for Pakistan earlier this month, and…
Lohrmann on Cybersecurity Recent cyber attacks have given a new urgency to business resiliency in the public and private sectors. Let’s explore the problem and some workable answers. June 01, 2025 • Dan Lohrmann Adobe Stock/zenzen In her award-winning book The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, Astra Taylor makes the argument that everyone feels insecure. The book’s description discusses our cultural challenges this way: “We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on? “In this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and…
, I had the opportunity to work with Google Analytics, a powerful platform for tracking and understanding user behaviour across an e-commerce website that sells clothing. My task was to build a data pipeline that exports GA4 data to BigQuery, a Google Cloud data warehouse. However, I quickly ran into a common issue: many of the available guides were outdated or inconsistent, which made the process more time-consuming than expected. In this article, I’ll walk you through a clear and up-to-date overview of Google Analytics, explain its key concepts, highlight the most important reports, and show you a working example…
Dear BHIS, So I’m a big fan of you guys! I took John’s SANS504 OnDemand class and I saw the light. Now what? I want to get into security, (maybe because I want to torture myself) but how? How do I make the next step? How do I get into infosec? Also, are you guys hiring? Tortured Dear Tortured, No, sorry, we’re not hiring right now, but let’s back up to the heart of your question. Infosec is a fairly new field and we’re still all figuring things out as we go – it truly is the Wild West, full…
Two flaws in vBulletin forum software are under attack Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2025 Experts found two vulnerabilities in the vBulletin forum software, one of which is already being exploited in real-world attacks. Two critical vBulletin flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-48827 and CVE-2025-48828, enable API abuse and remote code execution. The experts warn that one of these flaws is actively exploited in the wild. An unauthenticated user could exploit CVE-2025-48827 (CVSS score of 10) to invoke protected API controllers’ methods when running on PHP 8.1 or later, as demonstrated by the /api.php?method=protectedMethod pattern. The second flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-48828 (CVSS score…
Greater recognition of the fragility and interdependence of critical manufacturing systems is reflected in the move toward sustainable industrial cyber risk management. Treating cybersecurity as a one-time expense or as an IT problem that should be ignored is no longer sufficient. The complexity and accuracy of contemporary threats, along with the fact that digital systems now directly manage physical infrastructure, and where even a brief malfunction could endanger lives, halt production, or have an impact on supply chains, are what is causing this shift. Increasingly, organizations are beginning to go beyond responding to cybersecurity crises. They are realizing that cyber…
Publicly, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said the Federal Emergency Management Agency needs to be reoriented or even done away with altogether. “We are eliminating FEMA,” Noem said at a televised meeting of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet in March. But with hurricane season about to start, Noem has been quietly pushing behind the scenes to keep key employees in place and to approve reimbursements to states previously hit by disaster, sources familiar with the situation told NBC News. Read the fulls tory at NBC News here.