Obi-Wan Kenobi is set ten years after the proclamation of the Galactic Empire, and nine years before said Galactic Empire left the critical infrastructure facility DS-1 Orbital Battle Station (more commonly known as the Death Star) so scandalously vulnerable that it was attacked and largely destroyed by the Rebel show more ...
Microleaves, a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. Microleaves claims its proxy software is installed with user consent, but data exposed in the show more ...
Since it compromised a legitimate domain, the website used was likely to pass reputation services. Coupled with SEO poisoning, Gootkit operators can herd victims into a compromised website and bait them into downloading a file they are looking for.
The Department of Homeland Security started the clock on a report to Congress for streamlining requirements, amid industry dissatisfaction with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s pending reporting regime.
“The criminals would impersonate a service company to inform their victims that the service company now had a new bank account to which the payments for the provided services should be sent,” Europol explained.
While the company says that only the MyAppsAnywhere services are affected, the attack appears to have had a broader impact, with the company's main site shut down as well.
In a new report by Proofpoint, researchers looked at malicious campaign stats between October 2021 and June 2022 and identified a clear shift to other methods of payload distribution, recording a decrease of 66% in the use of macros.
Critical infrastructure organizations such as financial services, industrial, transportation, and healthcare companies are a growing target for these attacks, says IBM, and zero trust is the best way to guard against attack.
The team behind LibreOffice has released security updates to fix three security flaws in the productivity software, one of which could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on affected systems.
Founded in 2017, the Burlington, MA-based Sotero provides a data-focused security platform that allows for the centralized management of data instances, applications, and security point solutions.
This kind of extended code reuse is extraordinarily difficult to track down even with modern-day secure coding practices due to code being slightly modified to suit each use case specifically.
China's cyber espionage activities are extensive and sophisticated but when the Middle Kingdom tried to steal sensitive economic data from the US Fed, poor security meant its operatives didn't have to dip too far into their bags of tricks.
The two security holes, tracked as CVE-2022-2043 and CVE-2022-2044 and rated ‘high severity,’ affect Moxa’s NPort 5110 device servers, which are designed for connecting serial devices to Ethernet networks.
Human Security, a bot mitigation and fraud detection platform for enterprises, is merging with PerimeterX, a company focused on safeguarding web apps from account takeover and automated fraud. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
All these packages contained highly obfuscated malicious Python and JavaScript code. The Python malware is a modified version of an open-source token logger called Volt Stealer.
A ransomware attack was prevented just because the intended victim was using multi-factor authentication (MFA) and the attackers decided it wasn't worth the effort to attempt to bypass it.
The cybercriminals are trying to gather credentials by creating phishing websites that look similar to the Chase login page. The criminals do this as the stolen credentials can give them access which, in order, allows them to utilize the funds.
The two suspects had access to the network of the General Directorate of Civil Protection and Emergencies and were able to disconnect the sensors from the RAR system, reducing their detection capacity even in the environment of nuclear power plants.
Most of those organizations targeted in this first wave of Latin American attacks appear to have been hit after threat actors got hold of compromised credential pairs and session cookies.
Some Knotweed attacks observed by Microsoft have targeted law firms, banks, and strategic consultancy organizations worldwide, including Austria, the United Kingdom, and Panama.
This actor is believed to be North Korean in origin and is often publicly referred to under the name Kimsuky. The definition of which threat activity comprises Kimsuky is a matter of debate amongst threat intelligence analysts.
Every European telecom operator that suffers a security incident, notifies its national authorities which share a summary of these reports to ENISA at the start of every calendar year.
Poor training is hindering companies’ ability to protect themselves from cybersecurity risks, according to a report from Tessian. Three in four companies in the UK and US have experienced a security incident in the last year.
These websites have the capability to change their background and logo depending on the user’s domain. The phishing sites are stored in the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).
By creating a decentralized network of trusted devices that are incentivized to continuously validate each other to ensure no weak points, Naoris Protocol is on a mission to reinvent cybersecurity best practices.
Software cracks and keygen sites could be attractive but it’s extremely unsafe. A malware campaign by SmokeLoader operators was spotted dropping the Amadey Bot, a rarely used malware since 2020, via similar lures. Users should avoid downloading from unauthenticated sources and double check domains they are accessing for software downloading.
APT37 is targeting high-value organizations in Poland, the Czech Republic, and other European countries, with Konni RAT. The campaign is dubbed STIFF#BIZON. The attacked phishing document is a decoy and seems to be a report from a Russian war correspondent, Olga Bozheva. Researchers have shared some recommendations to mitigate threats.
Wireshark is a GTK+-based network protocol analyzer that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality analyzer for Unix and Win32 and to give Wireshark features that are missing from closed-source sniffers. This is the source code release.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5535-1 - Joseph Nuzman discovered that some Intel processors did not properly initialise shared resources. A local attacker could use this to obtain sensitive information. Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov and Maxim Goryachy discovered that some Intel processors did not prevent test and debug logic from being activated at runtime. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges.
Loan Management System version 1.0 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
Loan Management System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.
The team behind LibreOffice has released security updates to fix three security flaws in the productivity software, one of which could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on affected systems. Tracked as CVE-2022-26305, the issue has been described as a case of improper certificate validation when checking whether a macro is signed by a trusted author, leading to the execution of
The U.S. State Department has announced rewards of up to $10 million for any information that could help disrupt North Korea's cryptocurrency theft, cyber-espionage, and other illicit state-backed activities. "If you have information on any individuals associated with the North Korean government-linked malicious cyber groups (such as Andariel, APT38, Bluenoroff, Guardians of Peace, Kimsuky, or
With Microsoft taking steps to block Excel 4.0 (XLM or XL4) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across Office apps, malicious actors are responding by refining their new tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). "The use of VBA and XL4 Macros decreased approximately 66% from October 2021 through June 2022," Proofpoint said in a report shared with The Hacker News. In its
A cyber mercenary that "ostensibly sells general security and information analysis services to commercial customers" used several Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits in limited and highly-targeted attacks against European and Central American entities. The company, which Microsoft describes as a private-sector offensive actor (PSOA), is an Austria-based outfit called DSIRF that's linked to the
MSSPs must find ways to balance the need to please existing customers, add new ones, and deliver high-margin services against their internal budget constraints and the need to maintain high employee morale.In an environment where there are thousands of potential alerts each day and cyberattacks are growing rapidly in frequency and sophistication, this isn’t an easy balance to maintain. Customers
Google on Wednesday said it's once again delaying its plans to turn off third-party cookies in the Chrome web browser from late 2023 to the second half of 2024. "The most consistent feedback we've received is the need for more time to evaluate and test the new Privacy Sandbox technologies before deprecating third-party cookies in Chrome," Anthony Chavez, vice president of Privacy Sandbox, said.
Uber may not face prosecution over its handling of a 2016 data breach - but its former chief security head does; how to defend your digital devices' data while on vacation, and how to change your accent with artificial intelligence. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the show more ...
A $10 million reward is being offered for information leading to the identification or location of hackers working with North Korea to launch cyber attacks on US critical infrastructure. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
