On Friday, Siemens released firmed updates to fix a serious vulnerability in SIMATIC S7-1200 and S7-1500 programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Both could be exploited by a malicious actor to remotely gain access to protected memory areas and achieve unrestricted and undetected code execution, that researchers call show more ...
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has announced the findings of two independent investigations into an illegal data breach and the handling of sensitive information. Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr states “The Bank accepts the findings and has, and will continue to, implement the recommendations”. “As signalled show more ...
As a new survey by Vanson Bourne shows, 32% of companies have seen an increase in device encryption in the past year, according to Helpnet Security. In addition to that, 31% of companies said they now expect all data to be encrypted by default, whether at rest or in transit, and 24% require all data to be encrypted show more ...
A cyberattack has brought Australia's largest meat and food processing industry to a standstill, raising fears about supplies to domestic and international markets. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the attack affected JBS Foods facilities in Australia as well as in the United States, Canada, and other show more ...
A European media investigation published on Sunday has revealed that Denmark's intelligence agency helped the US National Security Agency (NSA) spy on top European politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, according to Deutsche Welle. The revelation that the US show more ...
If you use Alexa, Echo, or any other Amazon device, you have just 10 days to opt out of an experiment that puts your personal privacy and security at risk. On June 8, the retail, web hosting, and entertainment giant will automatically enroll the gadgets in Amazon Sidewalk. The new wireless mesh service will share a show more ...
Experts stumbled across a new threat actor that utilizes data-wiping malware to disrupt its victims’ IT infrastructure and demand a ransom posing as ransomware actors. In addition, it is focusing its attacks on a variety of organizations based in the Middle East.
The attackers use what appears to be a Google Tag Manager script, a popular service used on many websites, to hide their malicious content, while using base64 encoding for obfuscation.
With nearly three out of every four dollars spent online done via a mobile device, it's no wonder Magecart operators are looking to target this lucrative landscape using MobileInter.
Scientists working at the University of Maryland developed a new adversarial attack that can force machine learning systems to slow down and cause critical failures. Although this technique is not yet harmful, more such devastating slowdown attacks can be discovered in the future.
The Interpol (International Criminal Police Organisation) has intercepted $83 million belonging to victims of online financial crime from being transferred to the accounts of their attackers.
Experts from Qihoo 360 NETLAB published details about a new backdoor, dubbed Facefish, which can be used by threat actors to steal login credentials and executing arbitrary commands on Linux systems.
CrowdStrike researchers attributes the operation of the DarkSide RaaS to CARBON SPIDER, and is a skilled eCrime (ECX) group, highly likely Eastern Europe- or Russia-based.
The four new families include an HTML attachment named 'EnvyScout', a downloader known as 'BoomBox,' a loader known as 'NativeZone', and a shellcode downloader and launcher named 'VaporRage.'
Scammers have noted how subscriptions to online streaming services during the COVID-19 pandemic have skyrocketed. Proofpoint researchers expose a malspam campaign using a fake movie streaming service called BravoMovies.
"Unfortunately we were not able deliver your postal package in time because your address is not correct. Please reply us with the correct shipping address," the phishing email reads.
Cookies are simply small pieces of data that the web browser uses to for a better web surfing experience. Cookies are stored in memory and the hard drive of users' computers.
Officials described the cyberattack as “basic phishing” in which hackers used malware-laden emails to target the systems of U.S. and foreign government agencies, think tanks, and humanitarian groups.
Tracked as CVE-2021-20026 and featuring a CVSS score of 8.8, the recently patched vulnerability impacts on-premises versions of SonicWall NSM, but does not affect NSM SaaS versions.
A security researcher has discovered a bug in PatchGuard––a crucial Windows security feature––that can allow threat actors to load unsigned (malicious) code into the Windows operating system kernel.
The world's largest meat processing company, JBS Foods, has fallen victim to cyber attacks that have shut down production around the world, including in North America, South America, and Australia.
Siemens said an unauthenticated, remote attacker with network access to TCP port 102 could write arbitrary data and code to protected memory areas or read sensitive data to launch further attacks.
Law enforcement authorities in Mexico arrested the alleged head of a financial fraud operation that used infected ATMs to steal more than $1 billion from tourists in recent years.
President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2022 budget blueprint released Friday proposes $750m for the federal government to implement lessons learned from the SolarWinds hack that compromised nine agencies.
The leak was revealed by investigative journalism website Bellingcat, which described the findings after “simply searching online for terms publicly known to be associated with nuclear weapons.”
These emails do not explain what you are unsubscribing or subscribing to and are being used by spammers to verify if the recipient's email is valid and susceptible to future phishing scams.
Leaving aside the extensions which are outright fraudulent, many legitimate extensions get abandoned or sold each year to shady marketers that it’s wise to only trust actively maintained extensions.
The Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) has observed a phishing campaign that attempts to gather login credentials from employees by acting as the Chief Information Officer (CIO).
Deadshot monitors GitHub pull requests in real-time. The open-source tool flags the potential inclusion of sensitive data in any code, as well as “changes to sensitive functionality”.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4968-2 - USN-4968-1 fixed a vulnerability in LZ4. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. It was discovered that LZ4 incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into uncompressing a specially- crafted show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-2147-01 - GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility functions for strings and common data structures. Issues addressed include an integer overflow vulnerability.
IPS Community Suite versions 4.5.4.2 and below suffer from a PHP code injection vulnerability. The vulnerability exists because the IPScmsmodulesfrontpages_builder::previewBlock() method allows to pass arbitrary content to the IPS_Theme::runProcessFunction() method, which will be used in a call to the eval() PHP show more ...
Backdoor.Win32.WinShell.a malware suffers from a code execution vulnerability.
The document in this archive illustrates using the included proof of concept exploit to achieve root on Ubuntu systems using a flaw in the OverlayFS file system. The exploit itself does not have author attribution as the proof of concept came through SSD Disclosures.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-2145-01 - The runC tool is a lightweight, portable implementation of the Open Container Format that provides container runtime.
PHP version 8.1.0-dev unauthenticated remote command execution proof of concept exploit that leverages the backdoor.
Backdoor.Win32.Whirlpool.a malware suffers from a buffer overflow vulnerability.
Backdoor.Win32.NetControl2.293 malware suffers from a code execution vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-2144-01 - Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that runs virtually anywhere.
Backdoor.Win32.Netbus.12 malware suffers from an information leakage vulnerability.
Siemens on Friday shipped firmed updates to address a severe vulnerability in SIMATIC S7-1200 and S7-1500 programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that could be exploited by a malicious actor to remotely gain access to protected areas of the memory and achieve unrestricted and undetected code execution, in what the researchers describe as an attacker's "holy grail." The memory protection bypass
Starting June 8, Amazon will automatically enable a feature on your Alexa, Echo, or other Amazon device that will share some of your Internet bandwidth with your neighbors—unless you choose to opt out. Amazon intends to register its family of hardware devices that are operational in the U.S.—including Echo speakers, Ring Video Doorbells, Ring Floodlight Cams, and Ring
Are you aware of how secure your domain is? In most organizations, there is an assumption that their domains are secure and within a few months, but the truth soon dawns on them that it isn't. Spotting someone spoofing your domain name is one way to determine if your security is unsatisfactory - this means that someone is impersonating you (or confusing some of your recipients) and releasing
The US Army appears to have made a strategic withdrawal from advice it issued to remote workers last week about their use of smart IoT devices. Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
