The future that William Gibson imagines in the short story that inspired 1995’s Johnny Mnemonic essentially epitomizes cyberpunk: edgy, dangerous, extremely advanced, highly technical. The movie being set in early 2021, we decided to analyze the cinematic version from the viewpoint of cybersecurity, comparing show more ...
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Cybercrime groups often have complex supply chains, like real software firms, and they regularly develop relationships with the rest of the e-crime ecosystem to acquire access to essential technology.
Ransomware was the top attack type, making up ~40% of all cyberattacks, but digital currency mining and server access attacks too hit Indian companies last year, according to an IBM Security report.
The extensive document was published on Feb. 12 under the mention “500,000 French hospital records” and it was shortly after posted on other dark web sites, including a Russian forum.
Linux is more secure than most OSes, but that doesn't mean it can take security for granted. So, Google and the Linux Foundation are funding a pair of top Linux kernel developers to focus on security.
According to cybersecurity researchers at Dragos, four new hacking groups, dubbed Stibnite, Talonite, Kamacite, and Vanadinite, targeting industrial systems have been detected over the past year.
The Senate Intelligence Committee's hearing Tuesday about the SolarWinds supply chain attack answered some questions about what went wrong but also raised four key issues.
On Wednesday, the U.S. CISA along with its counterparts in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore warned that hackers are exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in Accellion FTA.
To make sure the attackers did not modify their code, Microsoft created CodeQL queries that were used to scan their codebase for malicious implants matching the SolarWinds IOCs.
A prolific North Korean state-sponsored hacking group has been tied to a new ongoing espionage campaign aimed at exfiltrating sensitive information from organizations in the defense industry.
In research presented on Wednesday at the NDSS conference, researchers describe flaws in the process Amazon uses to review third-party Alexa applications known as Skills.
Almost half of phishing attacks in 2020 aimed to swipe credentials using Microsoft-related lures – from the Office 365 enterprise service lineup to its Teams collaboration platform.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22681 with a CVSS score of 10, was independently reported to Rockwell by researchers at the Soonchunhyang University, Kaspersky, and Claroty.
78% percent of senior IT and security leaders believe their organizations lack sufficient protection against cyberattacks, according to research by IDG Research Services on behalf of Insight.
ENISA issued a study to help IT professionals in healthcare security to establish and maintain cloud security while selecting and deploying appropriate technical and organizational measures.
A novel alternative to traditional HTTP request smuggling that spotlighted an obsolete, hitherto obscure protocol has been recognized as 2020’s top web hacking technique.
Recently, 360 Security Center detected a ransomware that disguised as commonly used software and appeared on the network. The virus called itself DarkWorld in the ransom letter.
Polish video games maker CD Projekt is delaying the release of a patch for its Cyberpunk 2077 game until the second half of March, after a cyberattack slowed down work on fixes for the troubled game.
eBPF enables auditing and filtering of high-volume events, such as network packets or system calls, without the security or the stability overhead of a custom kernel module.
Over the past year, there’s been an increasing trend of WordPress malware using SQL triggers to hide malicious SQL queries within compromised databases to infiltrate them.
The settlement, if approved, would lay to rest claims that the video sharing app, owned by ByteDance, wrongfully collected the private and biometric data of users including teenagers and minors.
Oxford reported on Thursday that one of its research labs dedicated to studying COVID-19 suffered a cyberattack, following a Forbes investigation indicating external access to a number of its systems.
A report revealed that a Chinese APT has been abusing a Windows zero-day exploit, stolen from the NSA’s Equation Group even before The Shadow Brokers group leaked it.
The same cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked again, and this time the attackers stole USD 45,000 (NZD 62,000) worth of crypto, reported local news network Stuff.co.NZ.
On the website Clop Leaks, the threat actors behind the Clop ransomware are claiming to have in their possession an unspecified amount of information belonging to the Steris Corporation.
With browsers clamping down on third-party tracking, advertising technology companies are embracing a DNS technique to evade such defenses, thereby posing a threat to web security and privacy.
Package Control suffers from an arbitrary file write vulnerability.
Microsoft DirectWrite suffers from a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in fsg_ExecuteGlyph while processing variable TTF fonts.
Chrome suffers from an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in network DataElement struct traits.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4754-2 - USN-4754-1 fixed a vulnerability in Python. The fix for CVE-2021-3177 introduced a regression in Python 2.7. This update reverts the security fix pending further investigation. It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4754-1 - It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4755-1 - It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Delf.ai malware suffers from a buffer overflow vulnerability.
Doctor Appointment System version 1.0 suffers from multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Daws.etlm malware suffers from a remote unauthenticated system reboot vulnerability.
Online Catering Reservation System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
VisualWare MyConnection Server version 11.x suffers from a remote code execution vulnerability.
Triconsole version 3.75 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Zenphoto CMS versions 1.5.7 and below suffer from a remote shell upload vulnerability.
Remote Desktop Web Access suffers form an authentication timing attack vulnerability.
Trojan.Win32.Hotkeychick.am malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Backdoor.Win32.Azbreg.amw malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Trojan-Spy.Win32.SpyEyes.elr malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Daws.etlm malware suffers from a remote unauthenticated system reboot vulnerability.
Squid versions 4.14 and 5.0.5 suffer from a double free vulnerability that can result in code execution.
This whitepaper is a guide to performing memory forensics using volatility. It goes into depth on using the Volatility framework to analyze memory dumped from a live system.
LightCMS version 1.3.4 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
Nagios XI version 5.7.5 suffers from a cross site scripting and multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities.
Yeastar TG400 GSM Gateway version 91.3.0.3 suffers from a path traversal vulnerability.
Simple Employee Records System version 1.0 suffers from an unauthenticated remote shell upload vulnerability.
WordPress Under Construction, Coming Soon, and Maintenance Mode plugin version 1.1.1 suffers from cross site scripting and server-side request forgery vulnerabilities.
Researchers have uncovered gaps in Amazon's skill vetting process for the Alexa voice assistant ecosystem that could allow a malicious actor to publish a deceptive skill under any arbitrary developer name and even make backend code changes after approval to trick users into giving up sensitive information. The findings were presented on Wednesday at the Network and Distributed System Security
Cisco has addressed a maximum severity vulnerability in its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication on vulnerable devices. "An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to the affected API," the company said in an advisory published yesterday. "A successful
A prolific North Korean state-sponsored hacking group has been tied to a new ongoing espionage campaign aimed at exfiltrating sensitive information from organizations in the defense industry. Attributing the attacks with high confidence to the Lazarus Group, the new findings from Kaspersky signal an expansion of the APT actor's tactics by going beyond the usual gamut of financially-motivated
UK energy firm Npower has scrapped its smartphone app following an attack by hackers that saw some users' accounts accessed and personal information stolen.
