Free cheese exists only in mousetraps, but businesses everywhere have been desensitizing people to the idea of freemium cheese for years. The freemium approach is especially prevalent in the gaming industry. Game developers and publishers commonly offer users minor but genuinely free goodies — the expectation being show more ...
A 21-year-old Irishman who pleaded guilty to charges of helping to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from victims has been sentenced to just under three years in prison. The defendant is part of an alleged conspiracy involving at least eight others in the United States who stand accused of theft via SIM show more ...
Chinese electronics giant TCL has acknowledged security holes in some models of its smart television sets, but denies that it maintains a secret "back door" that gives it control over deployed TVs. The post TV Maker TCL Denies Back Door, Promises Better Process appeared first on The Security Ledger. Related show more ...
The CERT-In has issued an advisory regarding a new malware named Mozi is affecting IoT devices globally. Some routers from brands like Netgear, Huawei, D-Link, and others are affected.
AI-supported ransomware attacks might feature intelligent targeting and evasion, and self-propagation at high speed to cripple victim networks before they’ve had a chance to react, the report argued.
Updates released on Wednesday for the Drupal content management system (CMS) patch a remote code execution vulnerability related to failure to properly sanitize the names of uploaded files.
Researchers at Menlo Security found that while two-thirds of their customers run the latest version of Google Chrome, an eye-popping 83% run versions that are vulnerable to recent zero-day attacks.
Today, ransomware operators have evolved from a niche of clumsy malware gangs into a series of complex cybercrime cartels with the skills, tools, and budgets of government-sponsored hacking groups.
State-sponsored programs from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea pose the greatest high-tech threats to Canada, a report from the nation's authority on cybersecurity warned Wednesday.
The browser maker's decision to open a rare public consultation period comes after the organization faced criticism last year in the UK for its plans to support DoH inside Firefox.
The flaw is difficult to exploit as it required both the attacker and target to be logged into Facebook for Android and the victim to be logged into Messenger in a web browser or some other way.
Academics from the University of Maryland and the National University of Singapore detailed a novel way to convert a smart vacuum cleaner into a microphone capable of recording nearby conversations.
The new group - known as the National Cyber Force - aims to tackle threats to the UK's national security such as countering terror plots, as well as supporting UK military operations.
With the trend towards the overall improvement of organizational security, experts think that actors will focus more on exploiting vulnerabilities in network appliances such as VPN gateways.
Jackson County's website is currently down following a recent REvil ransomware attack on the county's web-hosting service provider, Managed.com, which forced it to take down all its servers.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s The Today Show, defense minister Ben Wallace said there was a need to modernize and invest in defending new domains that pose a threat to our way of life.
By further analyzing the code, researchers observed that the malicious program was able to carry out DDoS attacks over UDP, TCP, HTTP, and other protocols and to execute commands.
CVE-2020-4004, rated 9.3 on the CVSS scale, is a “use-after-free vulnerability in XHCI USB controller” that allows attackers with local admin privileges on VM to execute code as the host VMX process.
A security vulnerability in the infrastructure of Germany’s official COVID-19 contact-tracing app, called the Corona-Warn-App (CWA), would have allowed pre-authenticated remote code execution (RCE).
A Blue Voyant report highlighted that nation-states are ramping up cyber attacks on companies that are developing vaccines, and this is likely to increase as production and distribution gets underway.
Egregor has been actively distributed since September 2020 and has so far hit at least 69 big companies in 16 countries. The biggest ransom demand detected by Group-IB has been at $4 million of BTC.
The global cybersecurity workforce has increased by 700,000 to 3.5 million (while the shortfall has fallen to 3.12 million); and companies have apparently transitioned to remote working securely.
Like other human-operated ransomware gangs, the Mount Locker gang will compromise networks, harvest unencrypted files to be used for blackmail, and then encrypt the devices on the network.
A popular Christian faith app has unwittingly exposed the personal data of up to 10 million users dating back several years, after misconfiguring its cloud infrastructure, researchers have warned.
The cyber fraud prevention company announced achieving “unicorn” status after having raised $125 million in Series E funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Felix Capital, and Itai Tsiddon.
The financial services industry has the best flaw fix rate across six industries and leads a majority of industries in uncovering flaws within open source components, Veracode reveals.
There’s continued proliferation of ransomware, heightened concerns around nation-state actors, and the need for acceleration of both digital and security transformation, a CrowdStrike survey reveals.
Google said Thursday it will be rolling out end-to-end encryption for Android users, making it harder for anyone -- including law enforcement -- to read the content of messages.
The UK’s HMRC detected a 73% rise in email phishing attacks in the six months that the COVID-19 pandemic struck the country, as per the official data obtained from an FOI request by Lanop Outsourcing.
Authenticated Resolution could help thwart DDoS attacks — attackers wouldn't be able to access the actual addresses of their targets because they would not be authorized to do so.
According to Gemini Advisory, a China-based e-commerce scam appears to be harvesting payment data not through direct hacks or using malware to skim data, but with hundreds of fraudulent online shops.
Symantec discovered a massive global campaign by APT10, or Cicada, targeting automotive and industrial businesses exploiting the recently-disclosed ZeroLogon vulnerability.
A hacker group was spotted targeting MercadoLivre, an e-commerce platform in Latin America, to harvest sensitive information such as login credentials and additional financial details.
Academics from the University of Maryland and the National University of Singapore found that a smart vacuum cleaner can be manipulated into behaving like a recording microphone.
FireEye announced to acquire Respond Software, a company that helps customers investigate and understand security incidents, while reducing the need for highly trained (and scarce) security analysts.
REvil on Wednesday issued a statement saying it had taken over the servers of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, the Texas-based international church of the prominent 83-year-old pastor.
Honeywell and Nozomi Networks have announced a cybersecurity partnership to deliver more comprehensive, end-to-end cybersecurity for Operational Technology (OT) environments.
By leveraging shortcomings in a previous patch, security researchers from Checkmarx found that an attacker could send malicious API requests that resulted in remote code execution.
Company officials said they were checking 8,653 accounts of those it has business transactions with to determine if information related to these bank accounts as well as other information leaked.
Vtiger CRM version 7.0 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
This Metasploit module exploits a series of vulnerabilities to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution on the Rockwell FactoryTalk View SE SCADA product as the IIS user. The attack relies on the chaining of five separate vulnerabilities. The first vulnerability is an unauthenticated project copy request, the show more ...
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager version 5.2.0.1 suffers from a command line administrative interface buffer overflow vulnerability.
Boxoft Convert Master version 1.3.0 SEH local buffer overflow exploit.
Wonder CMS version 3.1.3 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
NetSurveillance version 4.02.R11.00000140.10001.131900.00000 allows for an unauthenticated password change when no default security questions are set.
Zortam MP3 Media Studio version 27.60 suffers from a code execution vulnerability.
This Metasploit module exploits a buffer overflow in Free MP3 CD Ripper versions 2.6 and 2.8. By constructing a specially crafted WMA WAV M3U ACC FLAC file and attempting to convert it to an MP3 file in the application, a buffer is overwritten, which allows for running shellcode.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4637-2 - USN-4637-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 4639-1 - It was discovered that there was a bug in the way phpMyAdmin handles the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage tables. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to cause phpmyAdmin to leak sensitive files. It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled user input. An show more ...
Barco wePresent WiPG-1600W versions 2.5.1.8, 2.5.0.25, 2.5.0.24, and 2.4.1.19 have firmware that does not perform verification of digitally signed firmware updates and is susceptible to processing and installing modified/malicious images.
Barco wePresent WiPG-1600W versions 2.5.1.8, 2.5.0.25, 2.5.0.24, and 2.4.1.19 have a hardcoded root password hash included in the firmware image.
Barco wePresent WiPG-1600W version 2.5.1.8 has an SSH daemon included in the firmware image. By default, the SSH daemon is disabled and does not start at system boot. The system initialization scripts read a device configuration file variable to see if the SSH daemon should be started. The web interface does not show more ...
The Barco wePresent WiPG-1600W version 2.5.1.8 web interface does not use session cookies for tracking authenticated sessions. Instead, the web interface uses a "SEID" token that is appended to the end of URLs in GET requests. Thus the "SEID" would be exposed in web proxy logs and browser history. An show more ...
An attacker armed with hardcoded API credentials from KL-001-2020-004 (CVE-2020-28329) can issue an authenticated query to display the admin password for the main web user interface listening on port 443/tcp for Barco wePresent WiPG-1600W version 2.5.1.8.
Barco wePresent device firmware includes a hardcoded API account and password that is discoverable by inspecting the firmware image. A malicious actor could use this password to access authenticated, administrative functions in the API. Versions affected include 2.5.1.8, 2.5.0.25, 2.5.0.24, and 2.4.1.19.
Facebook has patched a bug in its widely installed Messenger app for Android that could have allowed a remote attacker to call unsuspecting targets and listen to them before even they picked up the audio call. The flaw was discovered and reported to Facebook by Natalie Silvanovich of Google's Project Zero bug-hunting team last month on October 6 with a 90-day deadline, and impacts version
Ingenious researchers were able to use data collected by a robot vacuum's LiDAR navigation sensors to record audio signals. Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
