A lot has changed over the past four years. We’ve seen major ransomware and wipers take the Internet by storm. Empires of bots have done everything from mining crypto to helping change how people vote. And business travel has come to a standstill thanks to a viral enemy that caused a global pandemic. As they show more ...
On Monday, Oct. 26, KrebsOnSecurity began following up on a tip from a reliable source that an aggressive Russian cybercriminal gang known for deploying ransomware was preparing to disrupt information technology systems at hundreds of hospitals, clinics and medical care facilities across the United States. Today, show more ...
Emotet, a notorious malware threat, got a superficial facelift this week, hiding within a fake Microsoft Office request asking users to update Microsoft Word to take advantage of new features.
Cybersecurity leaders continue to grapple with issues that most CISOs face – fending off growing and evolving threats, raising awareness on phishing attacks and ransomware, and locking down access.
According to researchers, more than 100,000 Windows systems have not yet been updated to protect against a previously-patched, critical, and wormable flaw in Windows called SMBGhost.
Even after the kill switch was found, the ransomware continued to ravage every system and all the data it touched — attacking computer systems of 300 organizations in 150 countries.
The phishing document, which was uploaded to a free code hosting website (notabug.org), uses template injection to download and execute a remote template weaponized with a malicious macro.
A study by Positive Technologies showed the presence of high-risk vulnerabilities at most companies. However, half of these vulnerabilities can be eliminated by installing the latest software updates.
The Ryuk ransomware operators are increasingly relying on a malware-as-a-service tool - the Buer loader - to deliver the malware, rather than botnets such as Trickbot and Emotet, according to Sophos.
For the future of securing connected devices, stakeholders throughout the supply chain need to be held accountable for better visibility and security to guarantee adequate protection for end-users.
?The Maze cybercrime gang, which began operating in May 2019, is shutting down its operations after rising to become one of the most prominent players performing ransomware attacks.
Like almost all ransomware gangs today, REvil runs a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. They are driven by profit and want to make $2 billion from their ransomware service.
Enso Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a new application security posture management platform, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed funding round led by YL Ventures.
The so-called UNC 1878 hacking group, which is reportedly behind a string of ransomware attacks on hospitals, seems to have risen from the dead, again using its malware family of choice, Ryuk.
The operators conducting these campaigns have actively targeted hospitals, retirement communities, and medical centers, even in the midst of the ongoing global health crisis.
In the final days of voting, election officials and cybersecurity experts are keeping a close eye on a range of possible ways foreign governments and other hackers could interfere.
Caller ID spoofing, a technique used by scammers, is when someone calling your phone deliberately falsifies the information transmitted to your caller ID display to disguise their identity.
By making a commitment to a unified approach to security, then doing what's necessary to operationalize it, organizations can establish a better security model for the next normal.
The US FBI, DHS, and HHS issued a joint alert Wednesday warning of an "imminent" increase in ransomware attacks and other cyber threats against hospitals and healthcare providers.
In the past few years, the use of automation in many spheres of cybersecurity has increased dramatically, but penetration testing has remained stubbornly immune to it due to several issues.
Palo Alto Networks found that 27,000 newly parked domains are on average identified daily. Overall, the firm has identified 5 million newly parked domains in the past six months.
Today, multiple reports have emerged from Home Depot customers in Canada stating that the company had sent them hundreds of emails containing order information of strangers.
The security flaws in Hörmann gateway devices can be exploited for both attacks that require access to the local network and attacks that can be launched remotely from the internet.
A dashboard for one of the app’s databases was exposed to the internet without a password, allowing anyone to read, browse and search the database — including private user data.
Barracuda Networks' latest analysis found that in the period from June to September 2020, over 1000 schools, colleges, and universities faced more than 3.5 million spear-phishing attacks.
The remote code execution flaw (CVE-2020-14882) may allow unauthenticated attackers with network access via HTTP to achieve total compromise and takeover of vulnerable Oracle WebLogic Servers.
Ransomware attacks have become an all-too-familiar reality for hospitals just as COVID-19 has forced many to spread themselves thin and accelerated the adoption of virtual care.
According to a survey from cybersecurity firm Netwrix, organizations in the financial sector are most concerned about security incidents and exhibited severe changes in their cybersecurity priorities.
The Canberra-based cybersecurity firm archTIS has got on the acquisition trail. The company announced it will acquire Nuclear Cyber in a share-based deal valued at $9.75 million.
As citizens across the world have celebrated those on the front line of healthcare, malicious actors have seized the opportunity to take advantage of pandemic-caused disruption.
Sweden’s leading security firm Gunnebo AB suffered a ransomware attack, and the hackers have posted the stolen data on the dark web. Reportedly, the company’s servers were compromised in August 2020.
A life insurance company that suffered three separate data breaches in one year has agreed to pay a $1 million settlement for breaking US healthcare data privacy regulations.
Security researchers stumbled across the new variant of Mirai botnet, which is still in development mode, infecting hundreds of devices by exploiting old security vulnerabilities.
Several law firms have been under attack in recent times. The immigration law firm, Fragomen, disclosed a leak of sensitive information of current and former Google employees.
While some of the sites don’t seem to be directly related to fake online shops, 39 fraudulent sites were found claiming to sell Garden of Life products, dog food, and book resellers.
The FBI and CISA released a joint alert against threat actors using Mimikatz, primarily developed for penetration testers, to obtain login credentials from internet-facing domain controllers.
According to a report published by Accenture Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI), Russia-linked cyber-espionage group Turla has hacked into the systems of an undisclosed European government organization.
Microsoft rushed to take action on Wednesday after Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) users reported getting Cobalt Strike and Mimikatz alerts that turned out to be false positives.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4610-1 - It was discovered that fastd did not properly handle receive buffers under certain circumstances. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a memory leak, resulting in a denial of service.
Oracle WebLogic Server versions 10.3.6.0.0, 12.1.3.0.0, 12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0, and 14.1.1.0.0 remote code execution exploit.
Microsoft Edge suffers from information disclosure and remote code execution vulnerabilities. Affected builds include 85.0.564.83, 85.0.564.86, 85.0.564.70, 86.0.622.38, 86.0.622.43, 86.0.622.48, 86.0.622.51, and 86.0.622.56.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-4401-01 - Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime. This asynchronous patch is a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8. Issues addressed include an XML injection vulnerability.
Genexis Platinum-4410 version P4410-V2-1.28 suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability.
Lot Reservation Management System version 1.0 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
Lot Reservation Management System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.
Icewarp WebMail version 11.4.5.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4609-1 - Fabian Henneke discovered that GOsa incorrectly handled client cookies. An authenticated user could exploit this with a crafted cookie to perform file deletions in the context of the user account that runs the web server. It was discovered that GOsa incorrectly handled user access show more ...
Mailman versions 1.x up through 2.1.23 suffer from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Point of Sales version 1.0 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-4402-01 - Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime. This asynchronous patch is a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3. Issues addressed include an XML injection vulnerability.
Online Examination System version 1.0 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Departments of Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a joint alert Wednesday warning of an "imminent" increase in ransomware and other cyberattacks against hospitals and healthcare providers. "Malicious cyber actors are targeting the [Healthcare and Public Health] Sector with TrickBot malware, often leading to ransomware
An active botnet comprising hundreds of thousands of hijacked systems spread across 30 countries is exploiting "dozens of known vulnerabilities" to target widely-used content management systems (CMS). The "KashmirBlack" campaign, which is believed to have started around November 2019, aims for popular CMS platforms such as WordPress, Joomla!, PrestaShop, Magneto, Drupal, Vbulletin, OsCommerence,
You've probably run into a major problem when trying to scrape Google search results. Web scraping tools allow you to extract information from a web page. Companies and coders from across the world use them to download Google's SERP data. And they work well – for a little while. After several scrapes, Google's automated security system kicks in. Then it kicks you out. The standard was to bypass
Many thanks to the great folks at Recorded Future, who have sponsored my writing for the past week. If 2020 taught the security industry anything, it is this: There has never been a better time to be a cybercriminal. From extortion ransomware to cyberespionage campaigns, adversaries are capitalizing on uncertainty, show more ...
Voting machines are under the microscope, scammers are posing as rap stars, and American politician AOC isn't the only one who's been getting into the Among Us game. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans show more ...
US hospitals and healthcare providers have been warned that there is evidence of a credible and imminent threat that they will be targeted by ransomware. In an alert jointly released by the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the show more ...
Reading Time: ~ 4 min. Nurul Mohd-Reza knows how to empathize with the customers she serves. Her work with marginalized groups as a college student, she says, helped prepare her for when the pandemic turned many of her customers’ businesses upside down last March. Here she discusses what she’s learned show more ...
