Episode 267 of the Transatlantic Cable kicks off with the slightly concerning news that Facebook engineers (apparently) dont know what happens to your data inside Facebook. After that rather worrying story, the team move over to discussing an intriguing story looking at boffins from the National University of show more ...
Three men in the United Kingdom were arrested this month for attempting to assault a local man and steal his virtual currencies. The incident is the latest example of how certain cybercriminal communities are increasingly turning to physical violence to settle scores and disputes. Shortly after 11 p.m. on September 6, show more ...
These Docker Hub profiles were actively used to deploy malicious images containing rootkits, docker escape kits, XMRig Monero miners, credential stealers, Kinsing malware, and Kubernetes exploit kits.
In a new campaign observed by Cofense, Lampion operators are sending phishing emails from compromised company accounts, asking recipients to download legitimate-sounding documents from WeTransfer.
Lazarus dropped MagicRAT after successfully abusing flaws in internet-facing VMware Horizon servers. Moreover, its C2 infrastructure had been used to host and serve newer strains of TigerRAT.
The five security vulnerabilities – tracked as CVE-2022-24706, CVE-2022-31322, CVE-2022-35413, CVE-2022-31324, and CVE-2022-35582 – are documented in a technical blog post.
Manufacturers will have to assess the cybersecurity risks of their products and take appropriate action to fix problems for a period of five years or during the expected lifetime of the product.
While the Canadian telecommunications company didn't reveal when its network was breached or the attack happened, Hive claims in a new entry added to its data leak blog that it encrypted BTS' systems almost a month ago, on August 20, 2022.
Uber Technologies Inc said on Thursday it was investigating a cybersecurity incident, after a report that its network was breached and the company had to shut several internal communications and engineering systems.
Cryptocurrency scams are set to explode after researchers detected a triple-digit increase in registered domains in the first half of 2022, compared to the whole of last year, according to Group-IB.
The scheme is simple and relies on threat actors inserting their advertisements on the Microsoft Edge home page and trying to lure users with shocking or bizarre stories.
The upcoming changes to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) will affect every organization that stores, transmits, or processes cardholder data and/or sensitive authentication data.
With quite a bit of work already done, but plenty more to go, the Fremont County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution to extend the Declaration of a Local Disaster Due to Cybersecurity Attack on Computer Technology Systems for Fremont County.
Google on Wednesday announced the release of a Chrome 105 update that resolves 11 security vulnerabilities, including seven high-severity bugs reported by external researchers.
OIG said the deficiencies stemmed from insufficient internal controls and day-to-day oversight to ensure access controls are administered appropriately and effectively to prevent unauthorized access.
North Korean hackers from the UNC4034 threat cluster are using trojanized versions of the PuTTY SSH client to deploy backdoors on targets' devices as part of a fake Amazon job assessment.
The most important of the newly released security notes deals with a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35292 (CVSS score of 7.8), in Business One that could lead to escalation of privileges.
China is in the midst of a massive menace of online scammers who lure people into investing in seemingly legitimate products which apparently results in victims losing their identity and life savings, media reports said.
IPCA Laboratories, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in India, has been hit by a cybercrime and extortion group that claims to have stolen 500 gigabytes of data from its systems.
The profitability of cybercrime and the ease with which it can be executed means both public and private organizations need to not only remain vigilant in their security strategies but also be transparent about the types of attacks they're facing.
Iranian hackers were found luring its victims with a Multi-Persona Impersonation - a phishing technique wherein emails are sent to targets while adding another email address in CC, again controlled by them. Hackers share OneDrive links containing malicious docs—that are password-protected files—to perform template injection.
Akamai says it has absorbed the largest-ever publicly known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack – an assault against an unfortunate Eastern European organization that went beyond 700 million packets per second.
Victorian government agencies are not subject to the notifiable data breach scheme that applies to federal agencies and is being progressed in New South Wales and Queensland.
The US F&B chain sent email messages to multiple customers on Friday, notifying them that it had detected "unauthorized activity online" as well as "some unauthorized access to customer details".
The Biden administration on Friday launched a long-awaited federal cybersecurity grant program that will funnel up to $1 billion to state and local governments to upgrade their digital defenses.
Malicious actors such as Kinsing are taking advantage of both recently disclosed and older security flaws in Oracle WebLogic Server to deliver cryptocurrency-mining malware.
Threat actors may abuse Notepad++ plugins to circumvent security mechanisms and achieve persistence on their victim machine, new research from security company Cybereason suggests.
Now that NIST has finished creating its guidance, the OMB wants all agencies to implement it for any third-party software used with an organization’s computer systems. The rules do not apply to software developed by agencies themselves.
Despite Secureworks CTU researchers publicly disclosing COBALT MIRAGE tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) in May 2022, the threat actors continue to demonstrate many of the same behaviors.
The flaw has been patched in 7.6.58, 8.7.48, 9.5.37, 10.4.32, and 11.5.16 of typo3/cms-core. All prior versions on these release lines are affected. As user interaction is required, the bug is classified as moderate severity (CVSS score of 6.1).
The first three goals in the plan focus on how the agency will “reduce risk and build resilience to cyber and physical threats,” while the fourth goal pledges an internal focus to unify as “One CISA.”
SAPControl Web Service Interface (sapstartsrv) suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability via a race condition.
This Metasploit module exploits an OS command injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. This issue impacts PAN-OS versions prior to 10.0.1, 9.1.4 and 9.0.10.
PacketFence is a network access control (NAC) system. It is actively maintained and has been deployed in numerous large-scale institutions. It can be used to effectively secure networks, from small to very large heterogeneous networks. PacketFence provides NAC-oriented features such as registration of new network show more ...
SAP SAProuter suffers from an improper access control vulnerability where permitting loopback traffic can lead to unexpected behavior.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5615-1 - It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled INTERSEC query processing. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled ALTER TABLE for views that have show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5614-1 - It was discovered that Wayland incorrectly handled reference counting certain objects. An attacker could use this issue to cause Wayland to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Social Share Buttons version 2.2.3 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
Rocket LMS version 1.6 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
A use-after-free issue exists in Chrome 104 and earlier versions. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution in the browser process. LinkToTextMenuObserver holds a raw pointer to a RenderFrameHost object, but is not owned by the frame host and does not watch for frame host show more ...
Ride hailing giant Uber disclosed Thursday it's responding to a cybersecurity incident involving a breach of its network and that it's in touch with law enforcement authorities. The New York Times first reported the incident. The company pointed to its tweeted statement when asked for comment on the matter. The hack is said to have forced the company to take its internal
Malicious actors such as Kinsing are taking advantage of both recently disclosed and older security flaws in Oracle WebLogic Server to deliver cryptocurrency-mining malware. Cybersecurity company Trend Micro said it found the financially-motivated group leveraging the vulnerability to drop Python scripts with capabilities to disable operating system (OS) security features such as
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed new connections between a widely used pay-per-install (PPI) malware service known as PrivateLoader and another PPI service dubbed ruzki. "The threat actor ruzki (aka les0k, zhigalsz) advertises their PPI service on underground Russian-speaking forums and their Telegram channels under the name ruzki or zhigalsz since at least May 2021," SEKOIA said. The
A threat with a North Korea nexus has been found leveraging a "novel spear phish methodology" that involves making use of trojanized versions of the PuTTY SSH and Telnet client. Google-owned threat intelligence firm Mandiant attributed the new campaign to an emerging threat cluster it tracks under the name UNC4034. "UNC4034 established communication with the victim over WhatsApp and lured them
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200,000 customers of Starbucks in Singapore have had their personal details put up for sale online, after a security incident at the coffee chain. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Uber has suffered a security breach which allowed a hacker to break into its network, and access the company's internal documents and systems. How did they do it? By bombarding an employee with a spate of multi-factor authentication (MFA) push notifications.
