Episode 272 of the Transatlantic Cable kicks off with a report into gaming and gamers attitudes towards everything from work/gaming balance to cheating – if youre interested in the gaming space, be sure to check it out. After that, the team discuss the recent news that Kanye West (aka: Ye) is purchasing the show more ...
Cybercriminal groups are targeting misconfigured Docker and Kubernetes clusters — or just automating the sign-up process for free trial accounts — to build infrastructure for cryptomining.
Successful bug bounty programs strike a balance between vendor benefits and researcher incentives.
Without even asking for permissions, the newly discovered 'SiriSpy' flaw in Apple's iOS Bluetooth access could allow someone to access user interactions with Siri and keyboard-dictation audio.
A malicious employee was behind hateful, violent messages on the Post's website and Twitter account, the paper has confirmed.
The malware is being used to deliver Clop ransomware, in a vicious spate of October attacks that show an evolution in its methods.
Even if the security bug is not another Heartbleed, prepare like it might be, they note — it has potentially sprawling ramifications.
A novel campaign is using an emerging URL redirection tactic to try to trick business users and others into clicking on an embedded link and giving up credentials.
Leaning on social media to amplify your company's brand? Here's a look at the emerging cybersecurity risks that can arise from TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other platforms.
Setting priorities for internal security measures and outsourcing complex practices help protect small and midsize businesses.
A bipartisan bill aims to create a usable framework for the use of open source components when building applications, which Google is urging the private sector to support.
The initial infection occurs via a phishing email impersonating a Hungarian government portal. This portal is used to conduct official business online, such as submitting documents, ordering IDs, etc.
Victims of ransomware attacks in the manufacturing and production industry are making the biggest ransom payments, with the average ransom demand paid coming in at just over $2 million.
Researchers have uncovered thousands of repositories on GitHub offering fake PoC exploits for various vulnerabilities, with some laden with malware. Of the 47,313 repositories tested, 4,893 were deemed malicious and most of them were related to vulnerabilities from 2020. Some POs had malicious PowerShell script, malicious one-liner payloads, Cobalt Strike, and even inactive malicious components.
A CISA official told Axios, which first reported the announcement, that the CISA and the Chemical Sector Coordinating Council will set up a new task force to implement the sprint. CISA is the sector risk management agency for the chemical sector.
Researchers on Wednesday reported they found a “high-severity” vulnerability in GitHub that could have let an attacker take control over a GitHub repository and potentially infect all applications and other code relying on it with malicious code.
The volume of ransomware detections in Q3 2022 was the lowest in two years, but certain geographical regions have become bigger targets as attacks on US organizations wane, according to SonicWall.
A mass malvertising campaign named Dormant Colors is distributing malicious data-collecting browser extensions that have millions of active installations worldwide. Threat actors are targeting different sites such as AliExpress, Amazon, and adult sites. They can redirect victims to phishing pages to steal credentials for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, bank sites, or social media platforms.
FastFire, FastViewer, and FastSpy are the latest additions to Kimsuky's evolving Android malware arsenal, which are designed to receive commands from Firebase and download additional payloads.
Hackers are dropping Android and Windows malware in a malicious campaign that uses over 200 typosquatting domains impersonating twenty-seven brands. The typosquat domains masqueraded as popular Android apps, including Google Play, APKPure, and APKCombo, along with download portals, such as TikTok, PayPal, VidMate, and Snapchat.
Recently, we came across an exploitation attempt leveraging monitoring and visualization tool Weave Scope to enumerate the AWS instance metadata service (IMDS) from EC2 instances through environment variables and the IMDS endpoint.
LinkedIn has introduced three new features to fight fake profiles and malicious use of the platform, including a new method to confirm whether a profile is authentic by showing whether it has a verified work email or phone number.
So far in 2022 alone, 562 major data breaches affecting more than 39.2 million individuals have been posted to the tally. Companies reported hacking as the cause behind a large majority of those incidents.
Exploitation of zero-days by commercial makers of advanced spyware threatens global internet security to the point that it needs urgent attention from governments across the world, a Google cybersecurity executive told a European Parliament panel.
Extortion gangs named TommyLeaks and SchoolBoys are the same ransomware groups targeting companies worldwide, just like Conti and Karakurt pair. Furthermore, both were observed using the same Tor chat system for their extortion negotiation sites, which has been used only by Karakurt in the past.
Ursnif variant ( a.k.a. Gozi) comes in the form of a DLL called “loader.dll”, and it contains portable executable crypters and is signed with valid certificates, making it more accessible from being caught by systems security tools.
A British national with hacker handles “Spdrman” and “Popopret” was arraigned on charges related to operating a dark web marketplace that sold login credentials for U.S. government networks, stolen bank account credentials, malware, and more.
Medlab became aware of unauthorized third-party access to its IT system in February and a month later, was informed by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) that it may have been the victim of a ransomware incident.
A now-patched security vulnerability in Apple's iOS and macOS operating systems could have potentially enabled apps with Bluetooth access to eavesdrop on conversations with Siri.
Two separate vulnerabilities exist in different versions of Windows that allow attackers to sneak malicious attachments and files past Microsoft's Mark of the Web (MoTW) security feature.
A phishing email purportedly from LinkedIn with the subject line "We noticed some unusual activity" was discovered targeting users at a travel organization, in an attempt to pilfer their credentials on the social media platform.
On Wednesday, Mandiant published new findings about a group it calls Dragonbridge, which it's seen for years promoting pro-Chinese interests in fake grassroots social media campaigns designed to influence politics in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Germany’s federal cybersecurity office BSI warned on Tuesday that ransomware, political hacking, and other cybersecurity threats facing the country are “higher than ever.”
As a DDoS operation, Fodcha had grown significantly since April, when it targeted an average of 100 victims daily. The average number of targets has increased by ten times, reaching 1,000 daily.
As many as 85 command-and-control (C2) servers have been discovered supported by the ShadowPad malware since September 2021, with infrastructure detected as recently as October 16, 2022.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-7143-01 - Red Hat JBoss Core Services is a set of supplementary software for Red Hat JBoss middleware products. This software, such as Apache HTTP Server, is common to multiple JBoss middleware products, and is packaged under Red Hat JBoss Core Services to allow for faster distribution show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-7144-01 - Red Hat JBoss Core Services is a set of supplementary software for Red Hat JBoss middleware products. This software, such as Apache HTTP Server, is common to multiple JBoss middleware products, and is packaged under Red Hat JBoss Core Services to allow for faster distribution show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5703-1 - Selim Enes Karaduman discovered that a race condition existed in the General notification queue implementation of the Linux kernel, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Pawan Kumar show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5702-2 - USN-5702-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Robby Simpson discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain POST operations after PUT operations. This issue could cause applications using curl to send the wrong data, perform incorrect memory operations, or crash.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5696-2 - USN-5696-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in MySQL. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.7.40 in Ubuntu show more ...
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5261-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service or information disclosure.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5702-1 - Robby Simpson discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain POST operations after PUT operations. This issue could cause applications using curl to send the wrong data, perform incorrect memory operations, or crash. Hiroki Kurosawa discovered that curl incorrectly handled parsing . show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5701-1 - Yeting Li discovered that Jinja2 incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework with focus on providing security. All peer-to-peer messages in the network are confidential and authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and can currently encapsulate the network traffic in UDP (IPv4 and IPv6), TCP (IPv4 and IPv6), HTTP, or SMTP messages. show more ...
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.
This Metasploit module exploits a default Vagrant synced folder (shared folder) to append a Ruby payload to the Vagrant project Vagrantfile config file. By default, unless a Vagrant project explicitly disables shared folders, Vagrant mounts the project directory on the host as a writable vagrant directory on the guest show more ...
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Cybersecurity and telecom providers from around the world can now test their technologies and use cases in OneLayer's digital twin private network environment.
The healthcare sector is twice as likely to face data breach consequences as any other industry surveyed.
Survey points to gaps in understanding of what's driving higher costs and limiting access to cyber insurance coverage — and what businesses can do about it.
Australian health insurance firm Medibank on Wednesday disclosed that the personal information of all of its customers had been unauthorizedly accessed following a recent ransomware attack. In an update to its ongoing investigation into the incident, the firm said the attackers had access to "significant amounts of health claims data" as well as personal data belonging to its ahm health
A new cryptojacking campaign has been uncovered targeting vulnerable Docker and Kubernetes infrastructures as part of opportunistic attacks designed to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike dubbed the activity Kiss-a-dog, with its command-and-control infrastructure overlapping with those associated with other groups like TeamTNT, which are known to strike misconfigured
A now-patched security flaw in Apple's iOS and macOS operating systems could have potentially enabled apps with Bluetooth access to eavesdrop on conversations with Siri. Apple said "an app may be able to record audio using a pair of connected AirPods," adding it addressed the Core Bluetooth issue in iOS 16.1 with improved entitlements. Credited with discovering and reporting the bug in August
A 34-year-old U.K. national has been arraigned in the U.S. for operating a dark web marketplace called The Real Deal that specialized in the sales of hacking tools and stolen login credentials. Daniel Kaye, who went by a litany of pseudonyms Popopret, Bestbuy, UserL0ser, and Spdrman, has been charged with five counts of access device fraud and one count of money laundering conspiracy. Kaye was
As many as 85 command-and-control (C2) servers have been discovered supported by the ShadowPad malware since September 2021, with infrastructure detected as recently as October 16, 2022. That's according to VMware's Threat Analysis Unit (TAU), which studied three ShadowPad variants using TCP, UDP, and HTTP(S) protocols for C2 communications. ShadowPad, seen as a successor to PlugX, is a modular
Automobile, Energy, Media, Ransomware?When thinking about verticals, one may not instantly think of cyber-criminality. Yet, every move made by governments, clients, and private contractors screams toward normalizing those menaces as a new vertical. Ransomware has every trait of the classical economical vertical. A thriving ecosystem of insurers, negotiators, software providers, and managed
What is slushygate and how does it link to sextortion in the States? What is the most impersonated brand when it comes to delivering phishing emails? And what the flip is nano-targeting? All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by fan favourite Maria Varmazis.
LinkedIn says it is beefing up its security in an attempt to better protect its userbase from fraudulent activity such as profiles that use AI-generated deepfake photos, and messages that may contain unwanted or harmful content. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
The Murdoch-owned New York Post published a series of incendiary and offensive articles online earlier today, calling for the assassination of political figures like Joe Biden and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and spreading racial slurs.
