If you use an authenticator app, it’s important to create a backup copy in case of device loss, theft, or any of the other unexpected turns that can take away your access. To do that, you have several choices, and you can proceed based on your personal preferences and what authenticator app you use. Here’s show more ...
Among the roadblocks to achieving a risk-oriented posture are ineffective security metrics, operational inefficiencies, and the lack of full visibility across their dynamic IT environment.
Researchers reported suspected intrusions targeting the Indian media conglomerate The Times Group; the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI); and the Madhya Pradesh Police department.
SentinelLabs reported a campaign delivering the ZLoader banking trojan via fake Google advertisements for various software, including Discord, Zoom, TeamViewer, and Java plugins. It uses Living-off-the-Land Binaries and Scripts (LOLBAS) to avoid detection. This campaign manifests that ZLoader operators are also show more ...
Cybercrime trade on Telegram is exploding as cybercriminals take to the popular instant messaging app to buy, sell, and share stolen data and hacking tools.
Researchers from Insikt Group discovered the attacks in April. They observed a PlugX malware C2 server (operated by Mustang Panda) communicating with systems hosted inside the networks of government agencies in Indonesia. Indonesia’s national intelligence agency BIN denied the claim that its servers were breached.
Researchers disclosed details of an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in macOS Finder that could be abused by remote adversaries to trick users into running arbitrary commands on the machines.
The capabilities are driven by Cyware’s Virtual Cyber Fusion platform and its supporting solutions that empower organizations to achieve the end-to-end threat sharing needed for collective defense.
Netgear released patches to remediate a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability affecting multiple routers that could be exploited by remote attackers to take control of an affected system.
The University of Minnesota has announced a new center that aims to ensure that medical devices are safe and secured against cybersecurity threats through collaboration with industry partners.
Along with the shift toward digital payments, In 2021, India topped the list of countries with the most ransomware attacks, reflecting an 845% percent surge in mobile attacks since October 2020.
VMware published a new bulletin warning of as many as 19 vulnerabilities in vCenter Server and Cloud Foundation appliances that a remote attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system.
BluStealer is a crypto stealer, keylogger, and document uploader written in Visual Basic that loads C#.NET hack tools to steal credentials. BluStealer is primarily spread through malspam campaigns.
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense has apologized for sending an email that exposed the data of more than 250 Afghan interpreters who worked for British military forces.
This move is designed to disrupt the main channel used by ransomware operations to collect ransom payments from their victims, which, as the Treasury added, amounted to over $400 million last year.
Since 2020, Jupyter has remained active and highly evasive. It has continued to receive very low to zero detections in the VirusTotal database, maintaining the ability to bypass detection solutions.
The White House is taking additional steps to encourage ransomware victims to alert the federal government, just as the hackers behind those attacks are threatening victims from doing so.
Tammy Kahn, COO of FYEO, told ZDNet that when researchers searched through the company's database, they found 653 instances of breached credentials connected to NEW Cooperative.
Hackers are upping their game, using an approach some experts call “Deep Sea Phishing,” which is the use of a combination of sophisticated techniques to become more aggressive.
iTerm2 is a favorite of security researchers because of the propensity for malware to take control or detect usage of the Terminal app, which can interfere with attempts to reverse engineer malware.
Healthcare organizations have never been more essential. Yet when it comes to cybersecurity, too many hospitals, medical groups and research centers lag far behind other critical industries.
The FBI had penetrated the REvil gang’s servers to obtain the key, but after discussing it with other agencies, the bureau decided to wait before sending it to victims to avoid tipping off the gang.
Microsoft uncovered a massive operation that provides phishing services to cybercrime gangs using a hosting-like infrastructure that the OS maker likened to a Phishing-as-a-Service (PHaaS) model.
Cisco Talos uncovered a three-year-long espionage campaign, dubbed Operation Layover, aimed at the airline industry. Cybercriminals are spreading AsyncRAT and njRAT via malicious documents. In the ongoing campaign, attackers can change their crypter/attack vector and continue stealing from victims. Organizations must understand that simple phishing attacks can have severe consequences.
New Jersey-based USV Optical Inc. - a subsidiary of U.S.Vision on Sept. 3 reported to HHS' Office for Civil Rights a hacking IT incident involving a network server and affecting 180,000 individuals.
In an attack recently investigated by Sophos, an unknown threat actor exploited an ancient-in-internet-years vulnerability in an 11-year-old installation of Adobe ColdFusion 9 to infect the server.
Osano, a data privacy platform that helps websites become compliant with international regulations, today announced that it closed an $11 million funding round led by Jump Capital.
As many as 11 security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Nagios network management systems, some of which could be chained to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution.
Barlow Respiratory Hospital said while the attack affected several IT systems, the hospital was able to continue to operate under its emergency procedures and patient care was not interrupted.
As well as raising $20 million, a round co-led by Sequoia Capital and Accel, Stairwell launched its threat-hunting platform to help organizations determine if they were compromised now or in the past.
A health care company with several locations throughout Monroe County was the target of a sophisticated cyber attack and is advising those potentially impacted to monitor their financial credit data.
According to Trend Micro, the first half of the year witnessed over 7.3 million ransomware threats. The banking industry experienced a 1,318% year-over-year increase in ransomware attacks.
Out of 500 Americans in managerial and executive roles who were surveyed, 77% believe their company has gaps in its current security tools, according to Lynx Software survey findings.
Microsoft Exchange uses an Autodiscover feature to automatically configure a user's mail client, such as Microsoft Outlook, with their organization's predefined mail settings.
A data breach at Texas behavioral health provider Texoma Community Center affected more than 24,000 people and highlights how timelines for breach notification may lag behind security events.
McAfee Labs have observed a new phishing campaign that utilizes macro capabilities available in Microsoft PowerPoint. In this campaign, the spam email comes with a PowerPoint file as an attachment.
The Deputy Minister of National Defense said that the phones were selected because they had been previously identified “by the international community as posing certain cyber security risks.”
Chrome suffers from a HRTFDatabaseLoader::WaitForLoaderThreadCompletion data race condition.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5085-1 - It was discovered that SQL parse incorrectly handled certain regular expression. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3638-01 - Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language. Issues addressed include denial of service, information leakage, out of bounds read, path sanitization, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Apple Security Advisory 2021-09-20-10 - iTunes 12.12 for Windows addresses code execution vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5086-1 - Johan Almbladh discovered that the eBPF JIT implementation for IBM s390x systems in the Linux kernel miscompiled operations in some situations, allowing circumvention of the BPF verifier. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.
OpenCats version 0.9.4-2 suffers from an XML external entity injection vulnerability.
Apple Security Advisory 2021-09-20-9 - iTunes U 3.8.3 addresses a code execution vulnerability.
E-Negosyo System version 1.0 suffers from a remote shell upload vulnerability.
E-Negosyo System version 1.0 suffers from a remote time-based blind SQL injection vulnerability.
Apple Security Advisory 2021-09-20-8 - Security Update 2021-005 Catalina addresses buffer overflow, bypass, code execution, denial of service, integer overflow, and out of bounds read vulnerabilities.
e107 CMS version 2.3.0 authenticated remote shell upload exploit.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5073-3 - Norbert Slusarek discovered that the CAN broadcast manger protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Murray McAllister discovered that the joystick device interface show more ...
Apple Security Advisory 2021-09-20-7 - macOS Big Sur 11.6 addresses buffer overflow, bypass, code execution, denial of service, integer overflow, out of bounds read, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Online Reviewer System version 1.0 suffers from a remote shell upload vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3639-01 - Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language. Issues addressed include denial of service, information leakage, out of bounds read, path sanitization, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
South Gate Inn Online Reservation System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for a shell upload.
Apple Security Advisory 2021-09-20-6 - iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8 addresses code execution, denial of service, integer overflow, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Apple Security Advisory 2021-09-20-5 - Safari 15 addresses code execution vulnerabilities.
Apple Security Advisory 2021-09-20-4 - Xcode 13 addresses multiple issues in nginx.
Sentry version 8.2.0 suffers from a remote code execution vulnerability.
Filerun version 2021.03.26 authenticated remote code execution exploit.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5071-3 - It was discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform reference counting in some situations, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker who could start and control a VM could possibly use this to expose sensitive information or show more ...
Apple Security Advisory 2021-09-20-3 - tvOS 15 addresses code execution and denial of service vulnerabilities.
TotalAV version 5.15.69 suffers from an unquoted service path vulnerability.
Apple Security Advisory 2021-09-20-2 - watchOS 8 addresses code execution and denial of service vulnerabilities.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants as part of the government's efforts to crack down on a surge in ransomware incidents and make it difficult for bad actors to profit from such attacks using digital currencies. "Virtual currency exchanges such as
Over the last several years, there have been numerous high-profile security breaches. These breaches have underscored the fact that traditional cyber defenses have become woefully inadequate and that stronger defenses are needed. As such, many organizations have transitioned toward a zero trust security model. A zero trust security model is based on the idea that no IT resource should be trusted
Networking equipment company Netgear has released patches to remediate a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability affecting multiple routers that could be exploited by remote attackers to take control of an affected system. <!--adsense--> Traced as CVE-2021-40847 (CVSS score: 8.1), the security weakness impacts the following models - R6400v2 (fixed in firmware version 1.0.4.120) R6700
VMware on Tuesday published a new bulletin warning of as many as 19 vulnerabilities in vCenter Server and Cloud Foundation appliances that a remote attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. The most urgent among them is an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the Analytics service (CVE-2021-22005) that impacts vCenter Server 6.7 and 7.0 deployments. "A malicious actor with
Microsoft has opened the lid on a large-scale phishing-as-a-service (PHaaS) operation that's involved in selling phishing kits and email templates as well as providing hosting and automated services at a low cost, thus enabling cyber actors to purchase phishing campaigns and deploy them with minimal efforts. "With over 100 available phishing templates that mimic known brands and services, the
As many as 11 security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Nagios network management systems, some of which could be chained to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution with the highest privileges, as well as lead to credential theft and phishing attacks. Industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty, which discovered the flaws, said flaws in tools such as Nagios make them an attractive
One of the determining factors of how much damage a cyber-attack cause is how fast organizations can respond to it. Time to response is critical for security teams, and it is a major hurdle for leaner teams. To help improve this metric and enhance organizations’ ability to respond to attacks quickly, many endpoint detection and response (EDR) and extended detection and response (XDR) vendors
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