According to Bleeping Computer, Gigabyte was the target of a ransomware attack last week and are currently being blackmailed with the exposure of 112GB of the stolen data. The corporation announced that it shut down its IT infrastructure and that a small number of servers were impacted, but there are indications that show more ...
Malicious actors are using Telegram channels as a source of viral attacks for their targets. A new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) was spotted infecting devices via Telegram channels, according to Cyware. AT &T Alien Labs researchers recently discovered a new Trojan called FatalRAT that can spread via software download show more ...
In February, security experts from Check Point disclosed a critical flaw to Amazon that may allow an attacker to take control of Kindle devices and collect personal information, according to Threat Post. The issue made Kindle devices vulnerable to malicious eBooks and currently, there is no way to tell if the flaw show more ...
With most Kaspersky solutions, you can purchase one license and connect several gadgets to it. Here are the three simple ways to do it. Method 1. Use your My Kaspersky account If you’re using a Kaspersky solution, then you probably already have a My Kaspersky profile. If not, you can create one during program show more ...
I was preparing to knock off work for the week on a recent Friday evening when a curious and annoying email came in via the contact form on this site: “Hello I go by the username Nuclear27 on your site Briansclub[.]com,” wrote “Mitch,” confusing me with the proprietor of perhaps the show more ...
A recent spike in large-scale ransomware attacks has highlighted the vulnerabilities in the nation’s critical infrastructure and the ease with which their systems can be breached.
Sophos stumbled across a new attack campaign by Raccoon Stealer that uses SEO techniques to rank its fake website for pirated software. It uses clippers to rip off cryptocurrency, alongside financial information from victims. Besides, the recent update of Raccoon Stealer shows that the cyber threat landscape is now becoming commercialized.
The threat actor has been in action since at least 2016 and its specific attack vectors include abusing application flaws and exploiting previously unknown zero-days from Equation Group.
It’s especially unusual for a previously unknown market player. The analysis of the file revealed that this huge batch of compromised cards had not appeared on other underground forums.
Apple has fixed a vulnerability in its Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) technology that could have been abused by threat actors to escape and steal data from air-gapped networks.
The risk of cyberattacks has increased in the last year. According to Trend Micro, 80% of enterprises report they are likely to experience a data breach impacting customer data in the next 12 months.
The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) issued a joint bulletin to highlight the importance of properly scoping cloud environments.
"ACSC has observed an increase in reporting of LockBit 2.0 ransomware incidents in Australia," Australia's cybersecurity agency said in a security alert issued on Thursday.
Pulse Secure has fixed a critical post-authentication RCE flaw in its Connect Secure VPN appliances to address an incomplete patch for an actively exploited flaw previously resolved in October 2020.
Researchers Aditya Sood and Rohit Bansal created an open-source tool that detects internet-facing MongoDB instances and whether they’ve been infected with ransomware or Meow malware has been launched.
Numerous vulnerabilities uncovered in tractor manufacturer John Deere's systems underscore the cyber risks that come in tandem with the productivity gains from high-tech farming.
Ever since the 2017 edition, the Black Hat conference has also been the place where the cybersecurity community has also announced and released security tools part of the lesser-known “Arsenal” track.
USBsamurai – showcased by security researcher Luca Bongiorni during Black Hat Arsenal – is a USB HID injecting cable that costs less than $15 to produce and can be made from off-the-shelf components.
Threat actors started actively scanning for the Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell remote code execution flaws after researchers released technical details at the Black Hat hacking conference.
Millions of senior citizens in North America have had their personal information compromised following a breach at senior care review website SeniorAdvisor, according to WizCase.
At least one student within the public school system managed to access a Google Drive that contained the private information of students and department employees across the city.
The company is coordinating with multiple CERT organizations worldwide to take down the botnet's infrastructure by shutting down all detected command-and-control (C2) servers.
Application security testing (AST) company Checkmarx has acquired Dustico, a platform for detecting backdoors and other malicious activity in the open source software supply chain.
The new trojan has been found to compromise Facebook accounts of over 10,000 users since March 2021 via fraudulent apps distributed through Google Play Store and other app marketplaces.
The malicious app abused sideloading flaws to load and start the Cinobi banking trojan. This is a new campaign from Water Kappa that is aimed at users of web browsers other than Internet Explorer.
The company said it had learned that the personal information of some customers from its database -- including names, birth dates, phone numbers, and shopping histories -- had been breached last week.
The insurer for Joplin paid $320,00 to an unknown person after a ransomware attack shut down the city’s government’s computer system last month, Joplin City Manager Nick Edwards said Thursday.
Nmap is a utility for port scanning large networks, although it works fine for single hosts. Sometimes you need speed, other times you may need stealth. In some cases, bypassing firewalls may be required. Not to mention the fact that you may want to scan different protocols (UDP, TCP, ICMP, etc.). Nmap supports show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5032-2 - USN-5032-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Docker. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 21.04. Several vulnerabilities were fixed in Docker. This update provides a new upstream version that fixed them.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3028-01 - The microcode_ctl packages provide microcode updates for Intel. Issues addressed include information leakage and privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3027-01 - The microcode_ctl packages provide microcode updates for Intel. Issues addressed include information leakage and privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3024-01 - Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing is Red Hat's distribution of the Jaeger project, tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Microsoft Windows suffers from unsafe temporary directory use with the Malicious Software Removal Tool that can lead to elevation of privilege.
Pulse Secure has shipped a fix for a critical post-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its Connect Secure virtual private network (VPN) appliances to address an incomplete patch for an actively exploited flaw it previously resolved in October 2020. "The Pulse Connect Secure appliance suffers from an uncontrolled archive extraction vulnerability which allows an attacker to
A critical vulnerability has been disclosed in hardware random number generators used in billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices whereby it fails to properly generate random numbers, thus undermining their security and putting them at risk of attacks. "It turns out that these 'randomly' chosen numbers aren't always as random as you'd like when it comes to IoT devices," Bishop Fox
Among the problems stemming from our systemic failure with cybersecurity, which ranges from decades-old software-development practices to Chinese and Russian cyber-attacks, one problem gets far less attention than it should—the insider threat. But the reality is that most organizations should be at least as worried about user management as they are about Bond villain-type hackers launching
A new Android trojan has been found to compromise Facebook accounts of over 10,000 users in at least 144 countries since March 2021 via fraudulent apps distributed through Google Play Store and other third-party app marketplaces. Dubbed "FlyTrap," the previously undocumented malware is believed to be part of a family of trojans that employ social engineering tricks to breach Facebook accounts as
