Earlier this month, Kaspersky experts published a detailed report on a threat theyve called OnionPoison. They discovered malicious code being distributed through YouTube video. The video advertised using Tor Browser for private browsing. This browser is a modified version of the Firefox browser — with maximum show more ...
Episode 273 of the Transatlantic Cable kicks off with 65,000+ companies data being leaked! As Microsoft confirmed, a server misconfiguration caused the leak. Then, discussion moved on to Netflix. The streaming service is changing its policy on password sharing – and will start charging people to share accounts. You show more ...
With scant details attached, Google Chrome seeks to shore up yet another exploited zero-day vulnerability.
New technologies designed into processors allow enterprises to leverage cloud advantages while meeting privacy regulations.
Embedding security throughout your company has greater organizational impact and myriad benefits.
Apple engineers share technical details about the team's work on memory safety features on the new Apple Security Research site.
The next generation of cybersecurity pros will need to participate frequently in relevant training to expand their skills and stay engaged.
Operators of The Real Deal and German Deep Web underground marketplaces are in custody for allegedly dealing in drugs, weapons, malware, and more.
The threat actor uses commands from legitimate IIS logs to communicate with custom tools in a savvy bid to hide traces of its activity on victim machines.
"209 customers – out of a total customer base of over 270,000 – and 93 Authy end users – out of approximately 75 million total users – had accounts that were impacted by the incident," Twilio said.
The initrd is the "initial RAM disk." It's how Linux distributions cope with the issue of booting a machine on wildly different hardware without building a unique custom kernel for every individual machine.
PreVeil, a Boston, MA-based provider of cloud-based end-to-end encrypted email and file collaboration solutions, raised $20M in Series C funding. The round was led by PSG.
The multinational media conglomerate left a database with sensitive customer and corporate data unsecured, including third-party server passwords in plaintext format. Attackers could use the details for a supply-chain attack.
Gaining control of the software supply chain is vital, yet it's no simple task. OSS has emerged as an essential part of the business world and increasingly delivers critical building blocks used to produce proprietary and commercial software.
Drinik has been circulating in India since 2016, operating as an SMS stealer, but in September 2021, it added banking trojan features that target 27 financial institutes by directing victims to phishing pages.
Increasingly, as retail stores are less well protected, they are being seen as an easy way into the computer system of a company. Perhaps the lesson that needs to be learned here is that you should never assume that you won't or can't be attacked.
Cisco Talos recently discovered several vulnerabilities in InHand Networks’ InRouter302 that could allow an attacker to access the router’s console and make changes to the router’s settings, including security protocols.
Versa Networks secured additional financing of $120M in pre-IPO round led by BlackRock to capitalize on rapidly growing SASE market. Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) also participated in the funding.
According to an analysis by researchers at Digital Shadows, the most commonly discussed vulnerability among cybercriminals on underground forums over the last three months is CVE-2017-11882 – a security flaw in Microsoft Office from 2017.
The Securing Open Source Software Act introduced in the Senate last month is a bipartisan bill that would create a security and risk-mitigation blueprint for the federal government's use of open-source software.
"The attack was multi-directional, including from inside the Russian Federation," the Polish Senate said in a statement. The Slovak parliament's deputy speaker Gabor Grendel told AFP: that "Parliament's entire computer network has been paralysed".
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3723, has been described as a type confusion flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 107.0.5304.87 for macOS and Linux and 107.0.5304.87/.88 for Windows.
The vulnerability, caused by an old deserialization bug in an outdated Java library, could be abused to achieve pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) on the host computer.
"The New York Post has been hacked. We are currently investigating the cause," the daily newspaper tweeted shortly after removing multiple disturbing tweets published earlier on Thursday.
On October 27, decentralized finance (DeFi) lockup protocol Team Finance said that over $14.5 million worth of tokens were exploited through the Uniswap v2 to v3 migration function on its platform.
Data collected by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint shows that nearly 3,000 devices in almost 1,000 organizations have seen at least one Raspberry Robin payload-related alert in the last 30 days.
Geppei and Danfuan add to Cranefly's custom cyber weaponry, with the former acting as a dropper by reading commands from IIS logs that masquerade as harmless web access requests sent to a compromised server.
As per the findings by S2W’s threat research and intelligence center, the three new malware, FastFire, FastViewer, and FastSpy, are masquerading as APKs for three utility tools on Google Play Store.
Targets of these droppers include 231 banking and cryptocurrency wallet apps from financial institutions in Italy, the U.K., Germany, Spain, Poland, Austria, the U.S., Australia, France, and the Netherlands.
The list of impacted devices includes iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation).
The issues have been addressed in Junos OS versions 19.1R3-S9, 19.2R3-S6, 19.3R3-S7, 19.4R3-S9, 20.1R3-S5, 20.2R3-S5, 20.3R3-S5, 20.4R3-S4, 21.1R3-S2, 21.3R3, 21.4R3, 22.1R2, 22.2R1, and later.
The phishing campaign targeted 500 mailboxes of employees from a national travel organization. The email comes with the subject line - "We noticed some unusual activity" - pretending to be from LinkedIn.
The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing. ZAP provides show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5705-1 - Chintan Shah discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled memory in certain conditions. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted image file and potentially use this issue to allow for information disclosure or to cause the application to crash. It was discovered show more ...
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5262-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5706-1 - It was discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly handle internal data structures. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. It was discovered that an out-of-bounds write vulnerability existed in the Video for Linux 2 implementation in show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5704-1 - It was discovered that DBus incorrectly handled messages with invalid type signatures. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause DBus to crash, resulting in a denial of service. It was discovered that DBus was incorrectly validating the length of arrays of fixed-length show more ...
APOLOGEE is a Python script and Metasploit module that enumerates a hidden directory on Siemens APOGEE PXC BACnet Automation Controllers and TALON TC BACnet Automation Controllers. With a 7.5 CVSS, this exploit allows for an attacker to perform an authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel to access hidden directories in the web server. All versions prior to 3.5 are affected.
Five malicious dropper Android apps with over 130,000 cumulative installations have been discovered on the Google Play Store distributing banking trojans like SharkBot and Vultur, which are capable of stealing financial data and performing on-device fraud. "These droppers continue the unstopping evolution of malicious apps sneaking to the official store," Dutch mobile security firm ThreatFabric
A recently discovered hacking group known for targeting employees dealing with corporate transactions has been linked to a new backdoor called Danfuan. This hitherto undocumented malware is delivered via another dropper called Geppei, researchers from Symantec, by Broadcom Software, said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The dropper "is being used to install a new backdoor and other tools
The increased use of information technology in our everyday life and business has led to cyber-attacks becoming more sophisticated and large-scale. For organizations to thrive in this era of technology, they must develop robust security strategies to detect and mitigate attacks. Defense in depth is a strategy in which companies use multiple layers of security measures to safeguard assets. A
Google on Thursday rolled out emergency fixes to contain an actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3723, has been described as a type confusion flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine. Security researchers Jan Vojtěšek, Milánek, and Przemek Gmerek of Avast have been credited with reporting the flaw on October 25, 2022. "Google is aware of
The Raspberry Robin worm is becoming an access-as-a-service malware for deploying other payloads, including IcedID, Bumblebee, TrueBot (aka Silence), and Clop ransomware. It is "part of a complex and interconnected malware ecosystem, with links to other malware families and alternate infection methods beyond its original USB drive spread," the Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC
Multiple high-severity security flaws have been disclosed as affecting Juniper Networks devices, some of which could be exploited to achieve code execution. Chief among them is a remote pre-authenticated PHP archive file deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2022-22241, CVSS score: 8.1) in the J-Web component of Junos OS, according to Octagon Networks researcher Paulos Yibelo. "This vulnerability
Cloud computing was the lifeline that kept many companies running during the pandemic. But it was a classic case of medicine that comes with serious side effects. Having anywhere, anytime access to data and apps gives companies tremendous flexibility in a fast-changing world, plus the means to scale and customize IT at will. The cloud is an asset or upgrade in almost every way. With one glaring
