More and more businesses are infiltrated by malicious and increasingly difficult to detect bots, according to Cybernews. This is particularly affecting retailers who had to expand their online presence to meet the needs of their customers. According to Netacea, a company that specializes in detecting and mitigating show more ...
Following the patch released just two days ago, Microsoft disclosed another vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler component, but promised to fix the problem future security update, according to The Hacker News. Recently, the previously unknown vulnerability, identified as CVE-2021-36958, was added to the list show more ...
In what is being referred to as one of the largest hacks in the digital asset business, threat actors stole $611 million in cryptocurrency from a blockchain-based banking network, according to The Hacker News. Cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Poly Network publicly reported that unknown threat actors show more ...
Infosecurity Magazine reports a new sort of database attack that may lead to data leakage and loss at the Black Hat US 2021 hybrid event on August 5. The attack is called DBREACH and it involves exfiltration and reconnaissance from databases using Adaptive Compression Heuristics. A modern database can use show more ...
A new dark web service is marketing to cybercriminals who are curious to see how their various cryptocurrency holdings and transactions may be linked to known criminal activity. Dubbed “Antinalysis,” the service purports to offer a glimpse into how one’s payment activity might be flagged by law show more ...
Today, Beaumont and NCC Group's vulnerability researcher Rich Warren disclosed that threat actors have exploited their Microsoft Exchange honeypots using the ProxyShell vulnerability.
While ransomware has been around for a long time, it has evolved over time as attackers have improved and refined their tactics. We have seen a shift away from random, speculative attacks.
It’s not very often, though, that cyberattackers turn to Morse Code for operational security. But that's what played a part in a year-long phishing campaign that Microsoft researchers outlined.
As opposed to Formbook, its successor XLoader comes without C&C panel source code and is sold only by subscription. Instead, it uses the centralized C2 infrastructure provided by the XLoader creators.
Lack of awareness and knowledge gaps are a weak link for leadership who are responsible for strategic planning of cyber defenses, leaving organizations exposed to risks, a Ponemon survey reveals.
Researchers at Sucuri have discovered five backdoor methods to access Adobe's Magento e-commerce platform, potentially enabling capture of credit card details or administrator login credentials.
There has been a 64% increase in ransomware attacks between August 2020 and July 2021, revealed a report on Thursday. Many attacks are being led by a handful of high-profile ransomware gangs.
Trend Micro patched multiple privilege escalation, incorrect permission preservation authentication bypass, arbitrary file upload, and local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in its two products.
The U.S. government needs to do more to protect critical infrastructure from attacks and create public-private partnerships to improve national security, the CSC notes in a report published Thursday.
Ransomware is impacting the bottom line, with 48% of hospital executives reporting either a forced or proactive shutdown in the last 6 months as a result of external attacks, as per an Ipsos survey.
A team of researchers have uncovered a new type of backdoor attack that they showed can "manipulate natural-language modeling systems to produce incorrect outputs and evade any known defense."
This change in the authentication process was first announced last year, in July, when GitHub said that authenticated Git operations would require using an SSH key or token-based authentication.
The Accellion breach occurred last December, but more victims have come to light in recent weeks as investigations, notifications and disclosures stretch on through the summer.
By cleverly making use of a legitimate third-party disk encryption tool, the DeepBlueMagic ransomware encryption process targets the different disk drives on the endpoint.
This week, the U.K. NCSC has published a guide on how IT administrators can add the new button to Outlook on Microsoft Office 365 suites across their organizations to report phishing emails.
Ransomware operators such as Magniber and Vice Society are actively exploiting vulnerabilities in Windows Print Spooler to compromise victims and spread laterally across a victim's network.
A boutique cybersecurity firm that provides the financial, health care and retail sectors with custom security services has been acquired by technology security firm GoVanguard.
According to Mandiant, Chinese cyberespionage group UNC215 impersonated Iranian threat actors to target Israeli organizations in a campaign that began in January 2019.
Security researchers have uncovered three vulnerabilities in Wodify app that could allow an authenticated user to modify production data and extract sensitive personal information.
SentinelOne warned against a new AdLoad malware variant that bypasses Apple's YARA signature-based XProtect built-in antivirus tech to infect macOS. Hundreds of unique samples of AdLoad adware were found circulating in the wild that remained undetected for almost ten months. Researchers emphasize the need for additional layers of security to protect Mac devices.
The personal information of more than 3000 children in daycares throughout Durham Region was stolen in a cyberattack early this year that CTV News Toronto has learned is larger than previously known.
Palo Alto disclosed that a new eCh0raix variant is now capable of encrypting both QNAP and Synology Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Therefore, researchers recommend updating device firmware as the first step of defense. Also, it is recommended to create complex passwords and limit connections to SOHO-connected devices.
A new malware named Chaos has been discovered on an underground forum claiming to be a ransomware but, an analysis by researchers suggests it is a wiper under development. It has been in development since June and could become a serious and dangerous threat for organizations in near future.
The campaign, which began in early July, uses spoofed email addresses appearing to originate with legitimate customers of the manufacturers, signaling that it was the work of Aggah, researchers noted.
The filing claims, among other things, that Huawei used BES’s Data Exchange System "to create a backdoor and obtain data important to Pakistan’s national security and to spy on Pakistani citizens."
The ongoing phishing campaign lures targets into handing over their Office 365 credentials using invoice-themed XLS.HTML attachments and various information about the potential victims.
Researchers uncovered a new info-stealer malware “Ficker” and is distributed via a Russian underground forum by threat actors as Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) model to attack Windows users.
The El_Cometa ransomware gang, formerly known as SynAck, has released today master decryption keys (verified by Michael Gillespie) for the victims they infected between July 2017 and early 2021.
PluXML version 5.8.7 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5039-1 - Andy Nguyen discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds write in its setsockopt implementation. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.
HackTool.Win32.HKit malware suffers from a remote command execution vulnerability.
Simple Image Gallery System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
4images version 1.8 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
Care2x Open Source Hospital Information Management version 2.7 Alpha suffers from multiple persistent cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
Chikitsa version 2.0.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5038-1 - It was discovered that the PostgresQL planner could create incorrect plans in certain circumstances. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PostgreSQL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information from memory. This issue only affected show more ...
Easy-Mock version 1.6.0 authenticated remote code execution exploit.
Police Crime Record Management System version 1.0 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
Police Crime Record Management System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
RATES SYSTEM version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass. Original discovery of SQL injection in this version is attributed to Halit Akaydin in August of 2021.
Threat actors are actively carrying out opportunistic scanning and exploitation of Exchange servers using a new exploit chain leveraging a trio of flaws affecting on-premises installations, making them the latest set of bugs after ProxyLogon vulnerabilities were exploited en masse at the start of the year. The remote code execution flaws have been collectively dubbed "ProxyShell." At least
Ransomware operators such as Magniber and Vice Society are actively exploiting vulnerabilities in Windows Print Spooler to compromise victims and spread laterally across a victim's network to deploy file-encrypting payloads on targeted systems. "Multiple, distinct threat actors view this vulnerability as attractive to use during their attacks and may indicate that this vulnerability will
Microsoft has disclosed details of an evasive year-long social engineering campaign wherein the operators kept changing their obfuscation and encryption mechanisms every 37 days on average, including relying on Morse code, in an attempt to cover their tracks and surreptitiously harvest user credentials. The phishing attacks take the form of invoice-themed lures mimicking financial-related
The U.S. is presently combating two pandemics--coronavirus and ransomware attacks. Both have partially shut down parts of the economy. However, in the case of cybersecurity, lax security measures allow hackers to have an easy way to rake in millions. It's pretty simple for hackers to gain financially, using malicious software to access and encrypt data and hold it hostage until the victim pays
