People learn more from their mistakes than from cautionary tales of scam and fraud, so, for today’s security postmortem, we collected edifying tales from real-life gamers. Here are four from victims and one from a perpetrator. Gift fraud Mikhail Mad_Bucket, 23, translator: “About seven years ago, something show more ...
The mastermind behind the Ziggy ransomware operation announced on Telegram the decision to shut down their activity. The admin leaked a SQL file containing 922 decryption keys along with a decryptor.
After first learning of this attack from a post on Reddit, BleepingComputer was able to find numerous samples of the targeted attack uploaded to VirusTotal since February 2nd, 2021.
Different versions of multi-staged loaders attempt to inject and execute CinaRAT within the victim’s host memory. CinaRAT code is available on GitHub; generally it's just a rebranded QuasarRAT.
American packaging company WestRock announced at the end of January that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that impacted its information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) systems.
Under the settlement, SkyMed must now resend notices to consumers disclosing the extent of the breach, conduct assessments of its new comprehensive information security program, and more.
It's hard to tell how long Barcode Scanner had been in Google Play store as a legitimate app. Based on the high number of installs and user feedback, researchers suspect it had been there for years.
Cybercrime cases increased by an alarming 31% in Odisha in 2020 as compared to 2019. As per statistics of Odisha police, 1931 cybercrime cases were registered last year as against 1475 cases in 2019.
SitePoint is an Australian-based website, and publisher of books, courses, and articles for web developers. The company has disclosed a data breach and notified its users via email.
Unlike its predecessor, the new Zeoticus 2.0 variant can execute payloads without connectivity or remote commands, according to a malware analysis conducted by SentinelOne.
Google on Thursday removed The Great Suspender, a popular Chrome extension used by millions of users, from its Chrome Web Store for containing malware and also deactivated it from users' computers.
Elektra Labs and CMU researchers announced a collaboration on an innovative IoT labeling system for understanding the data rights and security practices of connected health sensors.
Domestic Kitten has been conducting widespread surveillance for the past four years, launching at least 10 separate campaigns and maintaining a target list of 1,200 individuals, at a minimum.
There's been a huge increase in cyber criminals attempting to perform attacks by exploiting remote login credentials over the last year, as many employees continue to work from home.
Fraudsters are targeting Discord users with a scam centered on a fake cryptocurrency exchange and using the lure of free bitcoin or ethereum cryptocurrency to steal money and personal data.
CyberArk researchers have released BlobHunter, an open-source tool organizations can use to discover Azure blobs containing sensitive files they have inadvertently made public.
Built using real-world observations, ATT&CK provides greater depth when describing attacker techniques, enabling red teams to reproduce the behavior of various threat groups.
Guardforce AI, an integrated security solutions provider in Asia, acquired a majority stake in Handshake Networking Ltd, a Hong Kong-based company specializing in penetration testing.
A mysterious group of hacktivists has poisoned the DNS records of several Sri Lankans (.lk) websites on Saturday and redirected users to a web page detailing various social issues impacting the local population.
According to the documents, upon learning of the incident, SN “immediately locked down affected systems and engaged a third party team of forensic experts to determine the impact on our borrowers.”
Research by Tessian has revealed that every photo we post and tag people, leads to the leak of valuable information that can be abused by hackers to design targeted attacks.
Microsoft has warned of an increasing number of consent phishing (aka OAuth phishing) attacks targeting remote workers during recent months, BleepingComputer has learned.
The patients and employees from 11 hospitals in the US have had their personal information exposed after hackers reportedly published tens of thousands of records online.
The officials of Germany have recently seized a digital wallet that was assumed to carry $60 million in bitcoins; all these bitcoins were acquired through fraudulent online activity.
SmartFoxServer 2X version 2.17.0 suffers from a God Mode Console remote code execution vulnerability.
AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a free replacement for Tripwire(tm). It generates a database that can be used to check the integrity of files on server. It uses regular expressions for determining which files get added to the database. You can use several message digest algorithms to ensure that the files have not been tampered with.
Unibox version 2.4 suffers from remote code execution and cross site request forgery vulnerabilities.
SmartFoxServer 2X version 2.17.0 suffers from a credential disclosure vulnerability.
Various Unibox products suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability.
SmartFoxServer 2X version 2.17.0 suffers from a God Mode Console cross site scripting vulnerability.
Millewin version 13.39.028 suffers from a local privilege escalation issue due to insecure permission and unquoted service path vulnerabilities.
Backdoor.Win32.Wollf.15 malware suffers from a missing authentication vulnerability.
Alt-N MDaemon webmail version 20.0.0 suffers from multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
Trojan-Spy.Win32.WinSpy.vwl malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Trojan-Spy.Win32.WebCenter.a malware suffers from an information leakage vulnerability.
WordPress Supsystic Backup plugin version 2.3.9 suffers from a local file inclusion vulnerability.
Trojan-Spy.Win32.SpyEyes.awow malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Trojan.Win32.Delf.uq malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Email-Worm.Win32.Sircam.eb malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
WordPress Supsystic Contact Form plugin version 1.7.5 suffers from remote SQL injection and persistent cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
Trojan.Win32.Cospet.abg malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Trojan.Win32.Comei.pgo malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Trojan-Spy.Win32.SpyEyes.auwl malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-0308-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.16. Issues addressed include memory leak and privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-0310-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.16.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4724-1 - It was discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled Certificate Exact Assertion processing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenLDAP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. It was discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled saslAuthzTo processing. A remote show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 4723-1 - It was discovered that PEAR incorrectly handled symbolic links in archives. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4725-1 - It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled memory in iSCSI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Alexander Bulekov discovered that show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-0433-01 - Red Hat Data Grid is a distributed, in-memory data store. This release of Red Hat Data Grid 8.1.1 serves as a replacement for Red Hat Data Grid 8.1.0, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References. Issues addressed include code execution, deserialization, and memory leak vulnerabilities.
While Gartner does not have a dedicated Magic Quadrant for Bug Bounties or Crowd Security Testing yet, Gartner Peer Insights already lists 24 vendors in the "Application Crowdtesting Services" category. We have compiled the top 5 most promising bug bounty platforms for those of you who are looking to enhance your existing software testing arsenal with knowledge and expertise from international
Twin cyber operations conducted by state-sponsored Iranian threat actors demonstrate their continued focus on compiling detailed dossiers on Iranian citizens that could threaten the stability of the Islamic Republic, including dissidents, opposition forces, and ISIS supporters, and Kurdish natives. Tracing the extensive espionage operations to two advanced Iranian cyber-groups Domestic Kitten (
Amid confusion over an alleged security breach at the British branch of Mensa, private messages have been leaked onto the internet.
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at HYPR. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Below, George Avetisov, Cofounder & CEO of HYPR, describes some of the findings of their recent State of Passwordless Security report. 2020 put Digital Identity challenges front and center. show more ...
It's not that unusual for a company to reward you handsomely if you find a vulnerability that could have lost them millions of dollars, but it's not often you also get the CTO offering to get a tattoo in your honour...
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