Cybercrooks have drained DraftKings accounts of $300K in the past few days thanks to credential stuffing, just as the 2022 FIFA World Cup starts up.
To get the full picture, companies need to look into the cybersecurity history and practices of the business they're acquiring.
The Vietnam-based financial cybercrime operation's primary goal is to push out fraudulent ads via compromised business accounts.
Google Workspace's team is seeing a spike in phishing and spam hitting Gmail — up 10% in just the last two weeks.
As SASE adoption grows, with its allure of simplified protection via one network and security experience for hybrid workers, remember: Have an overall plan, integrate and migrate to scale usage, and start small.
Orgs are in the middle of a rapid increase in the use of new collaboration tools to serve the needs of an increasingly dispersed workforce — and they're paying a very real security price.
Cybercrime continues to evolve — and shows no signs of slowing down.
An AI's "world" only includes the data on which it was trained, so it otherwise lacks context — opening the door for creative attacks from cyber adversaries.
Forefront Dermatology reached a $3.75 million settlement with the 2.41 million patients and employees whose data was accessed and stolen by the Cuba hacking group during an IT systems hack in May and June of 2021.
Private equity firms are failing to adequately manage cyber risk in their portfolio companies, with a fifth (19%) of such businesses found to feature easily exploitable vulnerabilities, according to BlueVoyant.
The experts at Bitdefender noticed that between October 26 and November 6, the rate of unsolicited Black Friday emails peaked on Nov 9, when reached 26% of all Black Friday-related messages.
A deepfake of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried circulated on Twitter on Friday, where the founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange appeared to claim he could make users whole again by doubling their cryptocurrency in a typical giveaway scam.
The depository stated that it reported the incident to the relevant authorities and is working with its cybersecurity advisors to analyze the impact. It added that settlement activities would be completed subsequent to the resolution of the incident.
Ransomware operators are evolving by expanding the scope of their operations by developing and adopting new tools in cyberattacks. Recently, Cyble researchers discovered three new ransomware families.
Phishing attempts targeting victims in the Middle East increased 100 percent last month in the lead-up to the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar, according to security shop Trellix.
The incident, Tehama County says, was identified on April 9, but the investigation into the matter stretched to August 19, when it was determined that personally identifiable information (PII) was compromised.
The bug allows attackers to abuse AWS’ AppSync service and assume IAM roles in other AWS accounts. This gives an attacker the opportunity “to pivot into a victim organization and access resources in those accounts,” according to Datadog.
Since the beginning of 2022, Avast has detected and stopped 93,000 ViperSoftX infection attempts against its customers, mainly impacting the United States, Italy, Brazil, and India.
Research from a CoreView study reveals that many common security procedures are not being followed 100% of the time. This leaves gaping holes in most organizations’ security defenses.
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has warned that the time to act on securing the US's offshore oil and natural gas installations is now because they are under "increasing" and "significant risk" of cyberattack.
Two Estonian nationals were arrested in Estonia, on Sunday, after being indicted in the U.S. for running a massive cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that led to more than $575 million in losses.
In this scam campaign, the scammers are trying to victimize visitors by claiming that they can receive a 100, 200, 400, or 500 dollar Tesco gift card by simply following some instructions which are given on the scam website.
Attorneys general in 33 US states are urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to take into consideration consumer risks as it looks into creating rules to crack down on commercial surveillance.
Sports betting site DraftKings has promised to reimburse an undisclosed number of customers after they lost $300,000 through a suspected credential-stuffing attack campaign.
A year after coming to power in 2013, Xi began to prioritize cybersecurity as a matter of government policy, focusing the bureaucracy, universities, and security services on purposefully cultivating talent and funding cybersecurity research.
Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to a new Go-based information stealer named ‘Aurora’ to steal sensitive information from browsers and cryptocurrency apps, exfiltrate data directly from disks, and load additional payloads.
Pig butchering, also called Sha Zhu Pan, is a type of scam in which swindlers lure unsuspecting investors into sending their crypto assets. The criminals encounter potential victims on dating apps, social media sites, and SMS messages.
Security researchers at CloudSEK shared the data with Infosecurity before publication, adding that 32 of the above applications were found to have critical Admin secrets hardcoded and that the team had identified 57 unique admin keys so far.
Aurora is a Golang-based info-stealer, which runs several commands upon execution through WMIC to collect basic host information, snaps a desktop image, and exfiltrates data to the C2 server.
Check Point researchers observed a malicious phishing email campaign designed to target users looking for the Black Friday sale. A massive surge in TrojanOrders attacks was also reported.
The Ducktail information stealer has been updated with new capabilities and the threat actors that use it have been expanding their operation, according to WithSecure, formerly known as F-Secure Business.
The firmware running on the affected card is based on BMC remote management firmware from AMI, which is used by tech giants such as Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Gigabyte, and Nvidia.
Proofpoint researchers expect Nighthawk will show up in threat actor campaigns as the tool becomes more widely recognized or as threat actors search for new, more capable tools to use against targets.
Stegano is a basic Python Steganography module. Stegano implements two methods of hiding: using the red portion of a pixel to hide ASCII messages, and using the Least Significant Bit (LSB) technique. It is possible to use a more advanced LSB method based on integers sets. The sets (Sieve of Eratosthenes, Fermat, Carmichael numbers, etc.) are used to select the pixels used to hide the information.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202211-7 - An integer overflow vulnerability has been found in sysstat which could result in arbitrary code execution. Versions less than 12.7.1 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202211-6 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution. Versions less than 102.5.0:esr are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202211-5 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution. Versions less than 102.5.0 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202211-8 - A vulnerability has been discovered in sudo which could result in denial of service. Versions less than 1.9.12-r1 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202211-11 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GPL Ghostscript, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution. Versions less than 9.56.1 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202211-9 - A vulnerability has been found in xterm which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Versions less than 375 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202211-10 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Pillow, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution. Versions less than 9.3.0 are affected.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5716-2 - USN-5716-1 fixed a vulnerability in SQLite. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain long string arguments. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5658-3 - USN-5658-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in DHCP. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. It was discovered that DHCP incorrectly handled option reference counting. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause DHCP servers to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8561-01 - Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.5.0. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8550-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.5.0 ESR. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8553-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.5.0 ESR. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8555-01 - Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.5.0. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties. This is the source code release version.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8560-01 - The hsqldb packages provide a relational database management system written in Java. The Hyper Structured Query Language Database contains a JDBC driver to support a subset of ANSI-92 SQL.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8552-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.5.0 ESR. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8556-01 - Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.5.0. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8548-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.5.0 ESR. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8549-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.5.0 ESR. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8559-01 - The hsqldb packages provide a relational database management system written in Java. The Hyper Structured Query Language Database contains a JDBC driver to support a subset of ANSI-92 SQL.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8554-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.5.0 ESR. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
In the cybersecurity world, augmenting the human touch with artificial intelligence has produced extremely positive results.
Safe shopping guidance coupled with new CISO tool to help safeguard personal data and corporate networks.
Industry experts to share insights into how FIDO and related technologies can bring password-less authentication to IoT.
The Luna Moth campaign has extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from several victims in the legal and retail sectors. The attacks are notable for employing a technique called callback phishing or telephone-oriented attack delivery (TOAD), wherein the victims are social engineered into making a phone call through phishing emails containing invoices and subscription-themed lures. Palo Alto
The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) on Monday announced the takedown of seven domain names in connection to a "pig butchering" cryptocurrency scam. The fraudulent scheme, which operated from May to August 2022, netted the actors over $10 million from five victims, the DoJ said. Pig butchering, also called Sha Zhu Pan, is a type of scam in which swindlers lure unsuspecting investors into sending
A nascent Go-based malware known as Aurora Stealer is being increasingly deployed as part of campaigns designed to steal sensitive information from compromised hosts. "These infection chains leveraged phishing pages impersonating download pages of legitimate software, including cryptocurrency wallets or remote access tools, and the 911 method making use of YouTube videos and SEO-poised fake
The best line of defense against holiday hacking schemes is a comprehensive incident response strategy that focuses on end-user vulnerabilities. The holiday season is upon us and with it a slew of cybersecurity scams preying on end-user vulnerabilities. Because employees often use their business emails and cell phones as their primary point of contact, these scams quickly become a threat to
A malicious extension for Chromium-based web browsers has been observed to be distributed via a long-standing Windows information stealer called ViperSoftX. Czech-based cybersecurity company dubbed the rogue browser add-on VenomSoftX owing to its standalone features that enable it to access website visits, steal credentials and clipboard data, and even swap cryptocurrency addresses via an
The Daixin ransomware gang has given a humiliating slap in the face to Air Asia, which lost the personal data of five million passengers and all of its employees earlier this month.
