The Verizon study investigates more security breaches than ever before and highlights the effect on international safety in the global pandemic of the most prevalent types of cyberattacks. This year's study found 5,258 security breaches by 83 authors worldwide, a third more than last year. Phishing and show more ...
Cloudflare is a well-known provider of DNS services. DDoS attack shields and quick content delivery CDN are two of their standout features. CAPTCHAs are tests that you must complete to prove that you are human, usually when trying to log into a website. The same checks are applying when you try to access a website show more ...
President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan contains billions of dollars earmarked for enhancing cybersecurity. The initiative is the response for fuel prices skyrocketing due to the recent Colonial Pipeline attack. However, the precise amount that will be spent on strengthening cyber defense is unknown. The show more ...
According to the New York Times, Apple Inc. hosts data from its Chinese customers on servers owned by a Chinese state-owned company. The company has the potential to make it easy for the government to gain access to the information. The Times reported on Monday that the data contract is one of many concessions the show more ...
AMD disclosed two exploits related to the Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) function. Affected processors are first, second, and third generation EPYC. The details are going to be revealed at year's IEEE Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT'21). The first exploit, CVE-2020-12967, is largely show more ...
Microsoft has repeatedly had to publish patches for bugs that cropped up in previous fixes, which has hardly helped to mitigate (already considerable) distrust in updates. Among the findings of our recent survey “Device updates: What’s stopping people from making the change?” was that 51% of show more ...
A ransomware gang that began operating a month ago and shares similarity with ThunderCrypt operation has launched a double-extortion attack on its victims. Security agencies and professionals need to keep an eye on this threat and beef up defenses.
A Magecart Group continues to distribute new malware wherein attackers hide the PHP-based web shell malware—masked as a favicon—into the targeted sites. The cybercrime syndicate is intensifying its efforts to compromise online stores with a wide range of attack vectors.
Since the start of the 2019 financial year, Services Australia has reported a total of five eligible data breaches to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).
Since the attack, Volue has been transparent about the cyberattack by providing webcasts, daily updates, and the email addresses and phone numbers for their CEO and CFO for questions about the attack.
There would need to be at least an additional vulnerability in another software component in place on the website – or an active compromise already taking place – for this to be an attack vector.
The Conti gang failed to encrypt the systems of Ireland's Department of Health (DoH) despite breaching its network and dropping Cobalt Strike beacons to deploy the malware across the network.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that scammers actively target the vulnerable families of missing persons attempting to extort them using information shared on social media.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) is seeking advice on measures to increase cybersecurity efforts across the UK from firms that both procure and provide digital services.
The ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline Co. earlier this month has prompted lawmakers to introduce measures designed to address cybersecurity shortcomings in the nation's critical infrastructure.
Out of this, 98.34 percent of the attacks appear to have originated from IP addresses in Bangladesh, with 76.08% of targeted users in South Korea, 17% in Australia, and 1% in the US.
“While it may take weeks to get all systems back, steady progress is being made, starting with services for the most urgent patients,” Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said on Twitter.
Usually, the stalker needs to have physical access to a victim’s device so as to side-load the stalkerware. Because of this, stalkers are usually someone from the close circles of their victims.
The Colonial Pipeline, which carries fuel along a path of 5,500 miles all the way from Texas to New Jersey, was hacked by DarkSide ransomware operators. This ended up being the largest impact on the U.S. energy system from a cyberattack.
Threat actors impersonated Truist, the sixth-largest US bank holding company, in a spear-phishing campaign attempting to infect recipients with what looks like remote access trojan (RAT) malware.
At the time of discovery, FortiGuard Labs researchers believed the ransomware was seeking out partitions to find possible hidden partitions setup by systems administrators to hide backup files.
It is to be expected that threat actors are not going to keep up their end of the bargain, even after paying the ransom. All or some part of the exfiltrated data has ended up online even after payment.
Cybersecurity firm Tessian revealed it had uncovered a number of SMS scams impersonating well-known meal kit delivery companies, including the likes of Gousto and HelloFresh.
Digital extortion gangs like DarkSide take great care to make their entire platforms geopolitical, because their malware is engineered to work only in certain parts of the world.
The Biden administration on Tuesday detailed how it wants to fund efforts to counter a wave of massive hacks in the wake of this month’s Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack.
Eldorado-based cybersecurity firm Shared Assessments has been acquired for an undisclosed price by one of its member organizations, OneTrust, at one time the fastest-growing company on the Inc. 5000.
The FBI says that complaints concerning online scams and investment fraud have now reached a record-breaking level. The FBI's IC3 received its six millionth complaint on May 15, 2021.
Simps botnet binary uses Mirai and Gafgyt modules for DDOS functionality. The botnet might be in the early stages of development because of the presence of the infected.log file after execution.
Despite the fact that third party code in IoT projects has grown 17% in the past five years, only 56% of OEMs have formal policies for testing security, a VDC Research reveals.
Security researchers have documented an attack technique that may allow attackers to leverage a legitimate Amazon VPC feature to mask their use of stolen API credentials inside AWS.
The United States and Britain have blamed Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), for the hack which compromised nine U.S. federal agencies and hundreds of private sector companies.
As the rewards that result from this type of crime increase, risks to government entities, company bottom lines, reputation, data integrity, customer confidence, and business continuity also grow.
In an F-1 form filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for Monday.com's proposed IPO, the company shared details on the extent of the Codecov breach.
When visiting the website, visitors are automatically redirected to a maintenance page warning that the site is down while the insurance provider increases security on the site.
The NoCry ransomware, which is very similar to Judge, creates a mutex to prevent multiple instances from running in parallel, provides sandbox detection, and deletes system restore points.
The Japanese government will reportedly introduce new regulations across 44 sectors to bolster national cyber defence, partly in response to the Colonial Pipeline hack that occurred last week.
This Metasploit module exploits an unauthenticated Java deserialization in the NetMotion Mobility server's MvcUtil.valueStringToObject() method, as invoked through the /mobility/Menu/isLoggedOn endpoint, to execute code as the SYSTEM account. Mobility server versions 11.x before 11.73 and 12.x before 12.02 are vulnerable. Tested against 12.01.09045 on Windows Server 2016.
Faraday is a tool that introduces a new concept called IPE, or Integrated Penetration-Test Environment. It is a multiuser penetration test IDE designed for distribution, indexation and analysis of the generated data during the process of a security audit. The main purpose of Faraday is to re-use the available tools in the community to take advantage of them in a multiuser way.
Hashcat is an advanced GPU hash cracking utility that includes the World's fastest md5crypt, phpass, mscash2 and WPA / WPA2 cracker. It also has the first and only GPGPU-based rule engine, focuses on highly iterated modern hashes, single dictionary-based attacks, and more. This is the source code release.
Hashcat is an advanced GPU hash cracking utility that includes the World's fastest md5crypt, phpass, mscash2 and WPA / WPA2 cracker. It also has the first and only GPGPU-based rule engine, focuses on highly iterated modern hashes, single dictionary-based attacks, and more. This is the binary release.
Vincent Dehors discovered that the shiftfs file system in the Ubuntu Linux kernel did not properly handle faults in copy_from_user() when passing through ioctls to an underlying file system. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) or execute arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4958-1 - It was discovered that the Caribou onscreen keyboard could be made to crash when given certain input values. An attacker could use this to bypass screen-locking applications that support using Caribou as an input mechanism.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4957-1 - It was discovered that DjVuLibre incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted DjVu file, a remote attacker could cause applications to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Backdoor.Win32.Delf.aez malware suffers from a code execution vulnerability.
Microsoft Exchange 2019 unauthenticated email download exploit.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4957-2 - USN-4957-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in DjVuLibre. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. It was discovered that DjVuLibre incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted DjVu show more ...
EgavilanMedia PHPCRUD version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
Backdoor.Win32.DarkMoon.a malware suffers from an insecure transit vulnerability.
Backdoor.Win32.DarkMoon.a malware suffers from having a weak hardcoded password.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4959-1 - It was discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
rxvt version 2.7.0 and rxvt-unicode version 9.22 incorrectly handles ANSI escape sequences allowing for arbitrary code execution.
The way Microsoft Windows implements file security appears to have some significant shortcomings.
NiceHash Miner Excavator versions 1.6.7c and below suffer from a cross site request forgery vulnerability. The issue enables any external web site to send commands to the local miner instance, and to redirect the mined coins to an arbitrary mining address.
Leaders in the InfoSec field face a strange dilemma. On the one hand, there are hundreds of thousands of resources available to find online to read (or watch) if they have questions – that's a benefit of a digital-first field. On the other hand, most leaders face challenges that – while not entirely unique each time – tend to require a specific touch or solution. For most, it would be great to
A total of 158 privacy and security issues have been identified in 58 Android stalkware apps from various vendors that could enable a malicious actor to take control of a victim's device, hijack a stalker's account, intercept data, achieve remote code execution, and even frame the victim by uploading fabricated evidence. The new findings, which come from an analysis of 86 stalkerware apps for
A financially motivated cybercrime gang has unleashed a previously undocumented banking trojan, which can steal credentials from customers of 70 banks located in various European and South American countries. Dubbed "Bizarro" by Kaspersky researchers, the Windows malware is "using affiliates or recruiting money mules to operationalize their attacks, cashing out or simply to helping [sic] with
In July 2018, when Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD) agreed to a deal with state-owned telco China Telecom to move iCloud data belonging to Apple's China-based users to the latter's servers, the shift raised concerns that it could make user data vulnerable to state surveillance. Now, according to a deep-dive report from The New York Times, Apple's privacy and security concessions have "made it
Apple is talking up the efforts it makes to police the iOS App Store, revealing that during 2020 it rejected more than 215,000 iPhone apps for violating its privacy policies. On its website, Apple detailed an array of statistics of how it has protected App Store users from being defrauded. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
