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Responding to cyberattacks and building national cyber resilience has never been – and will never be – the sole responsibility of governments. It requires a whole-of-society approach grounded in international cooperation efforts.
Fortinet captured over 500 Excel files that were involved in a campaign to deliver the Emotet Trojan. The malicious macro downloads Emotet via two extracted files, "uidpjewl.bat" and "tjspowj.vbs".
As cyberattacks grow in scale and sophistication, private and public sector entities are recognizing the need for a system to proactively share threat intelligence information: a global collective defense.
According to Anonymous, three Russian-state TV channels, Russia 24, Moscow 24, and Channel One and two Netflix-like Russian streaming services, Ivi and Wink, were targeted in the attack.
While some attacks, such as those against infrastructure, are nearly impossible for companies to prepare for, there are steps that they should take as a matter of course.
ICS vulnerability disclosures grew a staggering 110% over the last four years, with a 25% increase in the second half of 2021 compared to the previous six months, according to research by Claroty.
The FBI also provided IOCs related to Ragnar Locker activity, including info on attack infrastructure, Bitcoin addresses used to collect ransom demands, and email addresses used by the operators.
A subsidiary of KMG International, Rompetrol announced today that it is dealing with a "complex cyberattack" that forced it to shut down its websites and the Fill&Go service at gas stations.
As the Russian army pushes deeper into Ukraine and hackers take down government websites in waves of cyber attacks, the security of Ukraine's power sector has been thrown into question.
Researchers have disclosed details of critical security vulnerabilities in TerraMaster NAS devices that could be chained to attain unauthenticated remote code execution with the highest privileges.
The new solution is to shape memory requests by running them through a request shaper, called DAGuise, that uses a graph structure to process requests and send them to the memory controller on a fixed schedule.
FortiGuard Labs recently came across an interesting phishing e-mail masquerading as a purchase order addressed to a Ukrainian manufacturing organization that deals with raw materials and chemicals.
The latest financing led by Accel comes a year after Axonius raised $100 million at a valuation of $1.2 billion. Silver Lake Partners and existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners also participated.
The campaigns utilize web bugs to profile the victims before sending a variety of PlugX malware payloads via malicious URLs. TA416 has recently updated its PlugX malware variant.
A new SpyCloud report examined trends related to exposed data. Researchers identified 1.7 billion exposed credentials, a 15% increase from 2020, and 13.8 billion recaptured PII records obtained from breaches in 2021.
The costs exceeded the company's insurance coverage. The firm recorded $24 million in unrecoverable net losses related to the attack as of the March 1 filing of the 10-K.
Security expert Max Kellermann discovered a Linux flaw, dubbed Dirty Pipe and tracked as CVE-2022-0847, that can allow local users to gain root privileges on all major distros.
When compared to open-source repositories, private ones are also four times more likely to expose a secret, comforting the idea that they permeate a false sense of secrecy threatening security postures.
New findings about seven vulnerabilities in an Internet of Things remote management tool underscore the interconnected exposures in medical devices and the broader IoT ecosystem.
The deal will enhance Google's cloud computing business, which generates more than $19 billion annually, and bolster its security operations and advisory services, the company said on Tuesday.
PressReader, a digital platform for hundreds of print newspapers and magazines, said its systems are slowly returning to normal after a cyberattack caused outages since last Thursday.
A threat actor launched an attack using DanaBot against the webmail server belonging to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. The malware was utilized to deploy another second-stage malware.
The FBI is warning of ongoing widespread fraud schemes in which scammers impersonate law enforcement or government officials in attempts to extort money or steal personally identifiable information.
At the start of 2022, CrowdStrike found PROPHET SPIDER exploiting CVE-2021-22941 vulnerability impacting Citrix ShareFile Storage Zones Controller to compromise a Microsoft IIS web server.
The CISA added more than 60 flaws affecting Cisco and Microsoft products. All the Cisco vulnerabilities are rated critical as they can be abused by cybercriminals to run arbitrary code and for privilege escalation. Most vulnerabilities have a due date of March 24. The cybersecurity agency recommends all entities fix all security issues added to its known vulnerabilities catalog.
Samsung has now confirmed in a statement, without naming the hacking group, that there was a security breach, but it asserted that no personal information of customers was compromised.
Facebook’s attempt at addressing the bug last year was found to be deficient. Researchers found three new flaws: a race conditions issue, a security bypass, and an issue involving encrypted parameters.
The FIDO authentication standard could eventually bypass passwords, or at least augment them, as government and industry turns to more effective authentication technologies.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5316-1 - Reginaldo Silva discovered that due to a packaging issue, a remote attacker with the ability to execute arbitrary Lua scripts could possibly escape the Lua sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the host.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-0759-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems. Issues addressed include a privilege escalation vulnerability.
Variant proof of concept exploit for the Dirty Pipe file overwrite vulnerability. This version hijacks a SUID binary to spawn a root shell.
Proof of concept for a vulnerability in the Linux kernel existing since version 5.8 that allows overwriting data in arbitrary read-only files. This leads to privilege escalation because unprivileged processes can inject code into root processes.
Unpatched software is a computer code containing known security weaknesses. Unpatched vulnerabilities refer to weaknesses that allow attackers to leverage a known security bug that has not been patched by running malicious code. Software vendors write additions to the codes, known as "patches," when they come to know about these application vulnerabilities to secure these weaknesses. Adversaries
Linux distributions are in the process of issuing patches to address a newly disclosed security vulnerability in the kernel that could allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary data into any read-only files and allow for a complete takeover of affected systems. Dubbed "Dirty Pipe" (CVE-2022-0847, CVSS score: 7.8) by IONOS software developer Max Kellermann, the flaw "leads to privilege escalation
Details have been disclosed about a now-addressed critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Azure Automation service that could have permitted unauthorized access to other Azure customer accounts and take over control. "This attack could mean full control over resources and data belonging to the targeted account, depending on the permissions assigned by the customer," Orca Security researcher Yanir
As many as seven security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in PTC's Axeda software that could be weaponized to gain unauthorized access to medical and IoT devices. Collectively called "Access:7," the weaknesses – three of which are rated Critical in severity – potentially affect more than 150 device models spanning over 100 different manufacturers, posing a significant supply chain risk.
A broad range of threat actors, including Fancy Bear, Ghostwriter, and Mustang Panda, have launched phishing campaigns against Ukraine, Poland, and other European entities amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said it took down two Blogspot domains that were used by the nation-state group FancyBear (aka APT28) – which is attributed to Russia's GRU military
Google is officially buying cybersecurity company Mandiant in an all-cash deal approximately valued at $5.4 billion, the two technology firms announced Tuesday. Mandiant is expected to be folded into Google Cloud upon the closure of the acquisition, which is slated to happen later this year, adding to the latter's growing portfolio of security offerings such as BeyondCorp Enterprise, VirusTotal,
Samsung on Monday confirmed a security breach that resulted in the exposure of internal company data, including the source code related to its Galaxy smartphones. "According to our initial analysis, the breach involves some source code relating to the operation of Galaxy devices, but does not include the personal information of our consumers or employees," the electronics giant told Bloomberg.
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed 16 new high-severity vulnerabilities in various implementations of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware impacting multiple HP enterprise devices. The shortcomings, which have CVSS scores ranging from 7.5 to 8.8, have been uncovered in HP's UEFI firmware. The variety of devices affected includes HP's laptops, desktops, point-of-sale
