The purpose of any security solution is to protect the system and inform users about threats. But what if your antivirus utility flags a harmless program as malware, or sounds the alarm during scanning, seemingly for no reason? There’s a name for that: false positive. As independent tests show, our solutions show more ...
It happens all the time: Organizations get hacked because there isn’t an obvious way for security researchers to let them know about security vulnerabilities or data leaks. Or maybe it isn’t entirely clear who should get the report when remote access to an organization’s internal network is being show more ...
Telegram has exploded as a hub for cybercriminals looking to buy, sell, and share stolen data and hacking tools, new research shows, as the messaging app emerges as an alternative to the dark web.
The Seventh Inferno vulnerability received a CVSS score of 9.8, it was spotted with other two bugs, respectively tracked as Demon’s Cries (CVSS score: 9.8) and Draconian Fear (CVSS score: 7.8).
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) was impersonated in a phishing campaign that went on for two days. The campaign leveraged a variety of tactics to evade detection. IT systems at South Africa’s Department of Justice were encrypted by a ransomware attack. The attack encrypted all information systems and rendered them unavailable internally as well as to the public.
Long-term cyberespionage operations and covert information heists are two characteristics often associated with China-backed threat actors. Experts believe that the threat actor is linked to Beijing.
In one of its first acts, Groove publicly leaked a set of nearly 500,000 VPN credentials on a new hacker forum named RAMP. The credentials were associated with some 87,000 Fortinet FortiGate SSL-VPN devices.
SSID Stripping is a method that malicious attackers could use to fool users into connecting to fake Wireless Access Points (WAPs). It affects devices running macOS, iOS, Ubuntu, Windows, and Android.
Researchers found several apps that exposed their payment integration key ID and key secret. This is not a flaw in Razorpay but rather how app developers are mishandling their APIs.
Ransomware remains primary threat in the first half of the year. Working with third parties to gain access to targeted networks, they used APT tools and techniques to steal and encrypt victims’ data.
CrowdStrike Intelligence tracked the DarkOxide threat activity cluster which launched attack campaigns against organizations within the Asia Pacific (APAC) semiconductor industry.
Google on Friday said it's bringing an Android 11 feature that auto-resets permissions granted to apps that haven't been used in months, to devices running Android versions 6 and above.
“Beginning in 2012, Fahd, 35, conspired with others to recruit AT&T employees at a call centre located in Bothell, Washington, to unlock large numbers of cellular phones for profit,” said the DOJ.
While most cryptocurrency scams target social media users, scammers are now using phishing email spam to promote a new "Elon Musk Club" or "Elon Musk Mutual Aid Fund" giveaway.
It was found that 32-year old Matthew Gatrel of St. Charles, Illinois allowed users to launch more than 200,000 DDoS attacks through paid services for which he may face 35-years in prison.
While these bugs have been or still are exploited by one ransomware group or another in past and ongoing attacks, the list has also been expanded to include actively exploited flaws.
Over 5,000 current and former NEISD employees received a letter from the district saying their payroll information, including names and social security numbers, was at risk of being compromised.
The suspects defrauded hundreds of victims through phishing attacks and other types of online fraud before laundering the money through a wide network of money mules and shell companies.
The new strategy of the Victoria government is based on three core missions of improving the delivery of government services, creating a cyber safe place, and creating a 'vibrant' cyber economy.
The French containerline told customers today that it had suffered a leak of data on limited customer information involving first and last names, employer, position, email address, and phone number.
The $130 million funding round was led by HPS Investment Partners and PNC Bank, and comes more than three years after Saviynt raised $40 million of Series A financing led by Carrick Capital Partners.
The US government is reportedly set to announce new measures, including sanctions to deter cryptocurrency businesses from getting involved in laundering and facilitating ransomware payments.
Private information including identity, handle, address, cellphone quantity, email, date of beginning, receipt and encrypted password, and encrypted checking account quantity seem to have been stolen.
A recent study claims that an unnoticed threat—dangling DNS records—could be easily used for domain hijacking. According to the study, there are multiple types of dangling DNS records and several techniques to exploit them.
Fidus Information Security, a UK penetration testing consultancy, has published details of the flaw nearly two years after first alerting Virgin Media, a British telecom company.
As customers configured their VoIP equipment to connect to the company's domain name, the DDoS attack disrupted telephony services, preventing them from receiving or making phone calls.
A zero-click vulnerability in a popular IoT security camera could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain full access to the device and possibly internal networks, a researcher has warned.
Publicly exposed data included full names, emails, company names and registrant’s position, phone numbers, and questionnaire feedback. The data was discovered using the Grayhat Warfare search engine.
Researchers highlighted a new phishing email campaign, involving a new Dridex variant, that uses a specially crafted Excel document as an attachment. The Excel document in the email contains a message at the top of the document in bold letters urging them to enable macros. Victims opening attachments despite threat warning shows organizations’ lethargic approach toward security and a lack of employee training.
Government departments in at least seven countries in the Asia-Pacific and the EMEA regions have been targeted in a phishing campaign that has been ongoing since spring 2020.
Apple has released a security patch update for its range of devices in the wake of a vulnerability exploited by invasive spyware built by NSO Group. The first flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-30860, which is an integer overflow discovered by Citizen Lab. The second flaw (CVE-2021-30858) is a use-after-free bug that was disclosed by an anonymous researcher.
Voting was suspended just two hours after it started -- with "masses of voters" already casting ballots -- after a system crash with organizers suspecting a cyber attack.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3559-01 - Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks. Issues addressed include a code execution vulnerability.
This article discusses the CVE-2021-40444 vulnerability and an alternative path that reduces the lines of JS code to trigger the issue and does not require CAB archives.
BSides SF is soliciting papers and presentations for the 2022 annual BSidesSF conference. It will be located at City View at the Metreon in downtown San Francisco February 5th through the 6th, 2022.
T-Soft E-Commerce version 4 suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability.
This is a custom firmware written for the Proxmark3 device. It extends the currently available firmware.
Church Management System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability. Original discovery of SQL injection in this version is attributed to Murat Demirci in July of 2021.
litefuzz is a multi-platform fuzzer for poking at userland binaries and servers.
Budget and Expense Tracker System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.
ZeroPeril Ltd has discovered two issues inside the amdpsp.sys (v4.13.0.0) kernel driver module that ships with the AMD Chipset Drivers package for multiple AMD chipsets. The first issue is an information disclosure type security vulnerability and the second is a memory leak type bug due to insufficient releasing of show more ...
Apple Security Advisory 2021-09-13-5 - Safari 14.1.2 addresses code execution and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Online Food Ordering System version 2.0 remote shell upload exploit.
Church Management System version 1.0 remote shell upload exploit.
WordPress version 5.7 suffers from a Media Library XML external entity injection vulnerability.
Positive Technologies Maxpatrol 8 and Xspider appears to suffer from a denial of service vulnerability.
Google on Friday said it's bringing an Android 11 feature that auto-resets permissions granted to apps that haven't been used in months, to devices running Android versions 6 and above. The expansion is expected to go live later this year in December 2021 and enabled on Android phones with Google Play services running Android 6.0 (API level 23) or higher, which the company said should cover "
A newly spotted banking trojan has been caught leveraging legitimate platforms like YouTube and Pastebin to store its encrypted, remote configuration and commandeer infected Windows systems, making it the latest to join the long list of malware targeting Latin America (LATAM) after Guildma, Javali, Melcoz, Grandoreiro, Mekotio, Casbaneiro, Amavaldo, Vadokrist, and Janeleiro. The threat actor
Law enforcement agencies in Italy and Spain have dismantled an organized crime group linked to the Italian Mafia that was involved in online fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking, and property crime, netting the gang about €10 million ($11.7 million) in illegal proceeds in just a year. "The suspects defrauded hundreds of victims through phishing attacks and other types of online fraud such
A spam campaign delivering spear-phishing emails aimed at South American organizations has retooled its techniques to include a wide range of commodity remote access trojans (RATs) and geolocation filtering to avoid detection, according to new research. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro attributed the attacks to an advanced persistent threat (APT) tracked as APT-C-36 (aka Blind Eagle), a suspected
Enterprises that integrate security testing into their CI/CD pipeline fix 91.4 percent of new issues, according to a progress report from ShiftLeft. Recent software supply chain attacks illustrate the growing risks businesses, their partners, and customers face. But a recent report suggests better outcomes for show more ...
