Almost every developer of information security solutions claims their products repel ransomware attacks. That’s true: All of them do provide some degree of protection against ransomware. But how strong is that protection? How effective are those technologies? Those aren’t idle questions: Partial protection show more ...
What’s the No. 1 most unpleasant pain in the xxx thorn in the side of the modern-day cyber-world in terms of damage, evil sophistication, and headline-grabbing the world over? Can you guess?… Ah, the title of this post may have given it away, but yes, of course, it’s ransomware (aka cryptomalware, show more ...
The RaidForums hacking forum has gone through a turbulent week, with its website now forced through a mirror domain after a government filed a legal request with their registrar.
The UK's National Cyber Force was formally announced to the world in November 2020, having been operating under that name since April of that year. Its headquarters will be based in Lancashire.
The attackers could only gain access to customers' accounts but didn't breach MoneyLion's systems. The firm found no evidence that the credentials used in the attacks were obtained from its servers.
The program, which was previously called the Arizona Cyber Information Program, is now being renamed to the Arizona Information Sharing and Analysis Center or AZ-ISAC for short.
When it became aware of the intrusions in May 2021, an internal investigation began to determine the extent of the hack. The investigation revealed that the unauthorized access began in May 2016.
Prominent issues include the volume and variety of attacks, cited by 49% and 43% of respondents in a CompTIA survey. Privacy concerns (40 and quantifying security issues (34%) are other factors.
Despite the shift to modernize business environments and operations among the Global 2000 companies, web domains remain dangerously under-protected, according to research by CSC.
In the Telegram Android app versions 7.5.0 to 7.8.0, self-destructed images remain on the device in the Telegram Image directory after approximately two to four uses of the self-destruct feature.
Mishcon de Reya is bringing a representative suit against DeepMind pertaining to the company’s data-sharing deal with the Royal Free London National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust.
The two hospitals - Johnson Memorial Health in Franklin and Schneck Medical Center, located in Seymour - are the latest healthcare providers in Indiana to be hit with potential ransomware attacks.
A tool used by whisteblowers and the media to securely send information has patched two vulnerabilities that could have impacted the anonymous nature of the file-sharing system.
None of the 41 flaws addressed this month have been reported to be under active exploitation in the wild, so there should be no working exploits for them circulating out there.
Another issue to accept with regards to cybersecurity awareness: remote work will no longer be a perk or an arrangement that moves business processes during a disruption. It will be a norm.
While the Iranian threat actor laid low since May 2020, this changed recently as it likely initiated a ransomware attack on the Israeli university Bar-Ilan utilizing it’s custom Apostle ransomware.
An international coalition of American, French, Ukrainian, and EU law enforcement authorities coordinated on the arrest last week of two individuals and the seizure of millions of dollars in profit.
Nonprofit data protection industry body Data Security Council of India (DSCI) has issued an advisory on a file-encrypting virus that is likely spread via spam emails, phishing, and malicious URLs.
One Identity has acquired OneLogin, an SSO and IAM provider. One Identity is part of Quest Software, which is privately held by PE firm Francisco Partners. Before that, it was a part of Dell.
Dubbed "LANtenna Attack," the novel technique enables malicious code in air-gapped computers to amass sensitive data and then encode it over radio waves emanating from Ethernet cables.
Yoroi Malware ZLAB analyzed the new working model of LockBit 2.0 that has recently developed its custom tool specialized in data exfiltration. The RaaS group has been helping its partners by providing StealBit data exfiltration service. With the proliferation of such tools, protecting sensitive information has show more ...
On Monday, Intezer researchers said the instances, vulnerable to data theft, belong to industries including IT, cybersecurity, health, energy, finance, and manufacturing, among other sectors.
A previously undocumented Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit has been used by attackers to backdoor Windows systems by hijacking the Windows Boot Manager since 2012.
The attack, one of the fastest recorded by Sophos researchers, was achieved by operators who "precision-targeted the ESXi platform" in order to encrypt the virtual machines of the victim.
Orca Security, an Israeli security company offering an agent-less platform for protecting cloud-based assets, secured a $550 million extension to the Series C funding round it raised seven months ago.
Apache has issued patches to address two security vulnerabilities, including a path traversal and file disclosure flaw in its HTTP server that it said is being actively exploited in the wild.
Kaspersky laid bare an eight-month-long investigation into FinSpy operations, revealing multiple insights about the new upgrades in the spyware. Using bootkits, attackers are able to control operating systems' boot process and disable the defenses by evading the Secure Boot mechanism of the system.
APT41 (aka Barium or Winnti) is a moniker assigned to a prolific Chinese cyber threat group that carries out state-sponsored espionage activity in conjunction with financially motivated operations.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5103-1 - Lei Wang and Ruizhi Xiao discovered that the Moby Docker engine in Docker incorrectly allowed the docker cp command to make permissions changes in the host filesystem in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use to this to expose sensitive information or gain administrative privileges.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3725-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Issues addressed include bypass and out of bounds write vulnerabilities.
Backdoor.Win32.Prorat.lkt malware suffers from a man-in-the-middle vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5098-1 - It was discovered that bl didn't properly sanitize the inputs. An attacker could use this to leak sensitive information.
dH team discovered a PHP object injection vulnerability in all Tapatalk plugins that can allow attackers to execute PHP code, perform SQL injection, or cause denial of service conditions.
Backdoor.Win32.Prorat.lkt malware suffers from a weak hardcoded password vulnerability.
HackTool.Win32.Agent.gi malware suffers from a buffer overflow vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3723-01 - Red Hat Gluster Storage is a software only scale-out storage solution that provides flexible and affordable unstructured data storage. It unifies data storage and infrastructure, increases performance, and improves availability and manageability to meet enterprise-level storage challenges.
Atlassian Jira Server/Data Center version 8.4.0 suffers from a limited remote file read vulnerability.
WordPress MStore API plugin version 2.0.6 suffers from a remote shell upload vulnerability.
WordPress TheCartPress plugin version 1.5.3.6 suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability.
Trojan-PSW.Win32.PdPinch.gen malware suffers from a denial of service vulnerability.
Atlassian Confluence Server version 7.5.1 suffers from a pre-authorization arbitrary file read vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3724-01 - Red Hat Gluster Storage is a software only scale-out storage solution that provides flexible and affordable unstructured data storage. It unifies data storage and infrastructure, increases performance, and improves availability and manageability to meet enterprise-level storage challenges.
Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon.gy malware suffers from an unauthenticated open proxy vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5097-1 - It was discovered that LedgerSMB incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could use this to leak sensitive information, cause a DoS, or execute arbitrary code.
Try My Recipe suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
Backdoor.Win32.Bifrose.ahyg malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Student Quarterly Grading System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.
HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic malware suffers from an unquoted service path vulnerability.
Backdoor.Win32.Yoddos.an malware suffers from an unquoted service path vulnerability.
Backdoor.Win32.LolBot.gen malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Virus.Win32.Renamer.a malware suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Phrack Magazine Issue 70 - Articles include Phrack Prophile on xerub, Attacking JavaScript Engines, .NET Instrumentation via MSIL bytecode injection, a VM escape QEMU case study, and much more.
Law enforcement agencies have announced the arrest of two "prolific ransomware operators" in Ukraine who allegedly conducted a string of targeted attacks against large industrial entities in Europe and North America since at least April 2020, marking the latest step in combating ransomware incidents. The joint exercise was undertaken on September 28 by officials from the French National
Chinese cyber espionage group APT41 has been linked to seemingly disparate malware campaigns, according to fresh research that has mapped together additional parts of the group's network infrastructure to hit upon a state-sponsored campaign that takes advantage of COVID-themed phishing lures to target victims in India. "The image we uncovered was that of a state-sponsored campaign that plays on
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday revealed details of a previously undocumented UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit that has been put to use by threat actors to backdoor Windows systems as early as 2012 by modifying a legitimate Windows Boot Manager binary to achieve persistence, once again demonstrating how technology meant to secure the environment prior to loading the
Apache has issued patches to address two security vulnerabilities, including a path traversal and file disclosure flaw in its HTTP server that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. "A flaw was found in a change made to path normalization in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49. An attacker could use a path traversal attack to map URLs to files outside the expected document root," the open-source
