When your company hosts an AMA on Reddit, you have to be ready for all possibilities. About four years ago, we were a bit apprehensive heading into our Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT)’s first AMA and then the one with Eugene Kaspersky — but like Boy Scouts, we prepared. And despite the expected show more ...
The Email Appender software, a tool one hacker is advertising on a dark web forum, can be used to bypass email security measures, according to Gemini Advisory research released Wednesday.
The RAT consists of multiple obfuscation techniques to hide strings, API names, command and control (C2) URLs, and instrumental functions, along with static detection evasion.
Ransomware incidents at manufacturing firms have risen in 2020 as attackers have found ways to disrupt facilities’ operations by targeting IT networks and software that supports industrial processes.
Nvidia is red-flagging a high-severity flaw in its GeForce NOW software for Windows that an attacker on a local network can exploit to execute code or gain escalated privileges on affected devices.
Cyber-security firm Comodo has open-sourced this week its endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution, Open EDR, becoming the first major security vendor to take this route.
“I’m very proud of the work that CISA has done this year. And I think against significant odds, the work we did on [protecting] elections is really a testament to what this agency can do,” Ware said.
Weeks after US Cyber Command, Microsoft, and several others took coordinated action to extensively disrupt Trickbot activity, there are signs the botnet operators have still not fully given up yet.
The incident took place on March 11 and happened as a result of human error when three data files were inadvertently stored in an unsecured external storage service, and were removed on August 1.
A survey of 500 US employees by portfolio website Visual Objects found that 63% increased their vulnerability to cyberattacks by recycling the same passwords for multiple accounts on work devices.
Their end goal is to gain access to as many accounts as possible onto the targeted site and to steal sensitive information, steal money, or take over the identities of the account owners.
The Department of Defense has tapped Dave McKeown, a long-time government IT and security official, to be its next chief information security officer, a DOD official confirmed to FedScoop.
Researchers on Wednesday presented a new technique that can once again cause DNS resolvers to return maliciously spoofed IP addresses instead of the site that rightfully corresponds to a domain name.
This software contains several different vulnerabilities, including some bugs that could corrupt memory in a way that an attacker could carry out additional malicious actions on the victim machine.
Microsoft says these attacks targeted vaccine makers that have COVID-19 vaccines undergoing clinical trials, a clinical research firm involved in trials, and one that developed a COVID-19 test.
Discussing the increase in phishing attacks since the lockdown began, Or Katz said there has been an increase in numbers of phishing attack victims, as well as an increase in the number of attacks.
These vulnerabilities, while specific and technical in nature, basically allow attackers to fiddle with the code and steal as much money as possible in a very short amount of time.
For the first time, there’s a year-over-year reduction in the cybersecurity workforce gap, due to increased talent entry into the field and uncertain demand due to COVID-19, (ISC)² finds.
DarkSide is run as a ransomware-as-a-service where developers are in charge of creating the ransomware and payment site, and affiliates are recruited to hack businesses and encrypt their devices.
Organizations underwent an unprecedented IT change this year amid a massive shift to remote work, accelerating adoption of cloud technology, new research by Duo Security reveals.
Ant and Cockroach is not run-of-the-mill malware. While the payload only employs light obfuscation for its loader, heavy radix obfuscation is used to hide the main skimmer.
In response to 5G's potential to exacerbate an already complex problem of IoT security, researchers in defense and academic circles have launched programs to jumpstart R&D.
The endorsements themselves are part of affiliate advertising networks. Partners receive a cut of the scam’s proceeds for directing online traffic to the scammer’s websites.
Indeed, a recent string of high-profile cyberattacks against prominent game developers such as Ubisoft, Capcom, and WildWorks has reminded the industry that the threat has far from dissipated.
According to new analysis by Arkose Labs, 1.3 billion fraud attacks were committed in the third quarter of 2020, with some 770 million making use of credential-stuffing techniques.
The Australian Cyber Security Center said it "observed increased targeting activity against the Australian Health sector by actors using the SDBBot Remote Access Tool (RAT)."
Researchers are reporting a cryptocurrency mining botnet that has been leveraging Oracle WebLogic and Drupal vulnerabilities to hijack IoT devices.
A hacker group allegedly uploaded the Cobalt Strike post-exploitation toolkit on a GitHub repository and it has been forked more than a hundred times, as per reports.
A team of academics has disclosed an attack method called Platypus that can allow attackers to extract data from Intel CPUs using power side-channel attacks.
Nine of the 31 ransomware attacks disclosed in the third quarter of the year involved data exfiltration, a tactic that has become common with ransomware gangs over the past year.
From the samples seen by BleepingComputer, the stolen data includes users' full name, email address, MD5 hashed passwords, company name, phone number, address, PayPal email (if used), and IP address.
The new headquarters will be consolidating and maturing the expertise gathered in cyber investigations, incident response, and threat hunting activities across the region under one roof.
Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. It provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals show more ...
Botan is a C++ library of cryptographic algorithms, including AES, DES, SHA-1, RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, and many others. It also supports X.509 certificates and CRLs, and PKCS #10 certificate requests, and has a high level filter/pipe message processing system. The library is easily portable to most systems and compilers, and includes a substantial tutorial and API reference. This is the current stable release.
There is an out-of bounds read vulnerability in WindowsCodecsRaw.dll while processing a malformed Canon raw image. This can potentially lead to disclosing the memory of the affected process. All applications that use Windows Image Codecs for image parsing are potentially affected. The vulnerability has been confirmed on Windows 10 v2004 with the most recent patches applied.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4607-2 - USN-4607-1 fixed vulnerabilities and added features in OpenJDK. Unfortunately, that update introduced a regression that could cause TLS connections with client certificate authentication to fail in some situations. This update fixes the problem. Various other issues were also addressed.
This Metasploit module exploits a code execution vulnerability within the ASUS TM-AC1900 router as an authenticated user. The vulnerability is due to a failure filter out percent encoded newline characters within the HTTP argument SystemCmd when invoking /apply.cgi which bypasses the patch for CVE-2018-9285.
This Metasploit module performs an authentication brute forcing attack against the panel in Bludit version 3.9.2.
This Metasploit module exploits a local file inclusion vulnerability in Citrix ADC Netscaler.
This Metasploit module exploits an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in HorizontCMS 1.0.0-beta in order to execute arbitrary commands. The module first attempts to authenticate to HorizontCMS. It then tries to upload a malicious PHP file via an HTTP POST request to /admin/file-manager/fileupload. The server will show more ...
ReadyTalk Avian JVM versions 1.2.0 before 27th October 2020 suffer from a FileOutputStream.write() integer overflow vulnerability.
Anuko Time Tracker version 1.19.23.5311 suffers from an implementation flaw where password reset emails can be continuously triggered against unsuspecting users.
Anuko Time Tracker version 1.19.23.5311 suffers from an implementation flaw where the password reset link can be replayed.
Whitepaper that discusses bypassing SSL pinning. Written in Turkish.
A group of academics from the University of California and Tsinghua University has uncovered a series of critical security flaws that could lead to a revival of DNS cache poisoning attacks. Dubbed "SAD DNS attack" (short for Side-channel AttackeD DNS), the technique makes it possible for a malicious actor to carry out an off-path attack, rerouting any traffic originally destined to a specific
Complexity is the bane of effective cybersecurity. The need to maintain an increasing array of cybersecurity tools to protect organizations from an expanding set of cyber threats is leading to runaway costs, staff inefficiencies, and suboptimal threat response. Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with limited budgets and staff are significantly impacted. On average, SMEs manage more than a
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Recorded Future. Thanks to the great team there for their support! There has never been a better time to be a cybercriminal. From extortion ransomware to cyberespionage campaigns, malicious hackers are capitalizing on uncertainty in 2020, causing show more ...
An undisclosed number of customers of outdoor clothing retailer The North Face have had their passwords reset by the company, following a credential-stuffing attack. The company has revealed that on October 9, 2020, it became aware that hackers had used usernames and passwords stolen from a third-party website to gain show more ...
Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Phony IRS Emails Flooding Inboxes Upwards of 70,000 inboxes have been receiving spam claiming to be from the IRS threatening legal action for late or missing payments. Most recipients are Microsoft Office 365 users and have been receiving threats of lawsuits to, wage garnishment and even arrest. show more ...
