code {overflow-x: scroll; white-space: nowrap; width: 100%} Many online services allow (and sometimes even require) you to set up two-factor authentication (2FA) with one-time codes. Google Authenticator is the most well-known and widely used authenticator app that generates such codes. Almost all services are show more ...
A school that never sleeps? Cameras that go dark? A dead company hacked back to life? Welcome to the growing Internet of Zombie devices that threatens the security of the Internet. The post Forget the IoT. Meet the IoZ: our Internet of Zombie things appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Related show more ...
It's time to share threat intelligence and prioritize digital literacy and cyber hygiene to stem the rising money laundering tide.
Look for recent trends in attacks, strategies, and vulnerabilities to continue gaining steam throughout 2023.
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The fresh "ESXiArgs" malware is exploiting a 2-year-old RCE security vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2021-21974), resulting in thousands of unpatched servers falling prey to the campaign.
Despite growing awareness, organizations remain plagued with unpatched vulnerabilities and weaknesses in credential policies.
Cryptocurrency drainers are the latest hot ticket being used in a string of lucrative cyberattacks aimed at virtual currency investors.
Cyble observed the InTheBox threat actor selling over 1,800 web injects in its dark web shop, which can target users from Australia, Japan, Indonesia, the U.S., India, and other countries. The overlays support several Android banking trojans and impersonate apps operated by organizations across the globe. Due to the show more ...
The hackers who reportedly hit more than 130 organizations last year and stole the credentials of almost 10,000 employees are still targeting several tech and video game companies, according to a report obtained by TechCrunch.
The Mustang Panda APT group loads the PlugX malware in the memory of legitimate software by employing a four-stage infection chain that leverages malicious shortcut (LNK) files, triggering execution via DLL search-order-hijacking.
Once the email attachment is opened, the target’s computer will reach out to the command-and-control (C&C) server hosting a BadaxxBot toolkit that acts as a redirector to the final phishing page.
Cybercriminals were found distributing virtualized .NET malware loaders, dubbed MalVirt, in a Google Ads-based malvertising campaign to install the Formbook stealer and XLoader. The hackers used KoiVM virtualization technology to obfuscate their implementation and execution in their campaigns. The malware has keylogging, credential stealing, and additional malware loading capabilities.
Around a quarter of UK business leaders expect cyber-threats to significantly increase this year, with a similar number of global firms having already suffered costly breaches in the past, according to PwC.
In an update provided by the hospital, TMH states that all non-emergency/elective procedures for Monday, February 6 will be canceled and rescheduled. Patients whose appointments were rescheduled will be contacted by their provider or care facility.
The White House said progress on these objectives will enhance Quad members' national cyber capabilities, lowering the number of serious cyber incidents and improving their response capabilities.
Besides stealing passwords entered by users on banking apps, the threat actors behind the operation have leveraged code obfuscation and encryption using a framework known as Auto.js to resist reverse engineering efforts.
Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center (DTAC) attributes a recent cyberattack against the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo to an Iran-linked threat actor tracked as NEPTUNIUM (aka Emennet Pasargad, Holy Souls).
Medical institutions in the U.S. and Europe are under attack from a new botnet network called Passion launching DDoS attacks. It operates as a DDoS-as-a-Service (DDoSaaS) platform and has distinctive ties with Russian hacking groups, such as Anonymous Russia, Killnet, MIRAI, and Venom. It ran several defacement campaigns on Japanese and South African organizations in early January.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-20854 and rated ‘high severity’, has been described by VMware as an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability affecting version 17.x on Windows.
Security analysis tool Binwalk itself poses a security risk to users running out-of-date versions due to a path traversal vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution (RCE).
Enterprises have a limited number of analysts running their security operations centers (SOCs) and are deploying multiple tools in an attempt to address their cloud security challenges, according to ManageEngine.
In late October 2022, Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki was charged (and “arrested in absentia,” according to the Finns) with attempting to extort money from the Vastaamo Psychotherapy Center.
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler together with the Website Planet research team discovered an open and non-password-protected database that contained 717,814 records and the PII of thousands of Canadian citizens.
The increase is likely because researchers are investing more to uncover vulnerabilities and organizations are also conducting more audits to find flaws in their software inventory.
The university said on Friday that it is battling to keep the hackers out of critical zones by isolating parts of its IT system. This defense has compromised access to its systems but prevented cyberattackers from encrypting or extracting data.
83% of organizations experienced more than one data breach in 2022. However, 97% of respondents feel confident that they are well-equipped with the tools and processes needed to prevent and identify intrusions or breaches, according to Exabeam.
According to the IT security researcher Anurag Sen working with Italian cyber security firm FlashStart, the organization has exposed more than 140 gigabytes of data, which is available to the public without any password or security authentication.
Royal Ransomware is the latest ransomware operation to add support for encrypting Linux devices to its most recent malware variants, specifically targeting VMware ESXi virtual machines.
“On Dec. 1, the voice calling functionality of the 988 Lifeline was rendered unavailable as a result of a cybersecurity incident,” Danielle Bennett, a spokeswoman for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, said in an email.
On January 10, the nation's third-largest wireless carrier disclosed that the personal data of 180,000 customers, including their names, birth dates, and phone numbers, had been breached.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5339-1 - Ikeda Soji reported that libhtml-stripscripts-perl, a Perl module for removing scripts from HTML, is prone to a regular expression denial of service, due to catastrophic backtracking for HTML content with specially crafted style attributes.
This Metasploit module targets a vulnerability in Tomcat versions 6, 7, and 8 on Debian-based distributions where these older versions provide a vulnerable tomcat init script that allows local attackers who have already gained access to the tomcat account to escalate their privileges from the tomcat user to root and fully compromise the target system.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5842-1 - Mark Esler and David Fernandez Gonzalez discovered that EditorConfig Core C incorrectly handled memory when handling certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using EditorConfig Core C to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Android Binder VMA management suffers from multiple security issues.
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 ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5824-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, cross-site tracing, or execute arbitrary code.
Microsoft Windows suffers from a kernel memory corruption due to an insufficient handling of predefined keys in registry virtualization.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5825-2 - USN-5825-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PAM. Unfortunately that update was incomplete and could introduce a regression. This update fixes the problem. It was discovered that PAM did not correctly restrict login from an IP address that is not resolvable via DNS. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5816-2 - USN-5816-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced several minor regressions. This update fixes the problem. Niklas Baumstark discovered that a compromised web child process of Firefox could disable web security opening restrictions, leading to a new child process being show more ...
When SaaS applications started growing in popularity, it was unclear who was responsible for securing the data. Today, most security and IT teams understand the shared responsibility model, in which the SaaS vendor is responsible for securing the application, while the organization is responsible for securing their data. What’s far murkier, however, is where the data responsibility lies on the
The maintainers of OpenSSH have released OpenSSH 9.2 to address a number of security bugs, including a memory safety vulnerability in the OpenSSH server (sshd). Tracked as CVE-2023-25136, the shortcoming has been classified as a pre-authentication double free vulnerability that was introduced in version 9.1. "This is not believed to be exploitable, and it occurs in the unprivileged pre-auth
An ongoing malvertising campaign is being used to distribute virtualized .NET loaders that are designed to deploy the FormBook information-stealing malware. "The loaders, dubbed MalVirt, use obfuscated virtualization for anti-analysis and evasion along with the Windows Process Explorer driver for terminating processes," SentinelOne researchers Aleksandar Milenkoski and Tom Hegel said in a
E-commerce industries in South Korea and the U.S. are at the receiving end of an ongoing GuLoader malware campaign, cybersecurity firm Trellix disclosed late last month. The malspam activity is notable for transitioning away from malware-laced Microsoft Word documents to NSIS executable files for loading the malware. Other countries targeted as part of the campaign include Germany, Saudi Arabia,
An Iranian nation-state group sanctioned by the U.S. government has been attributed to the hack of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in early January 2023. Microsoft, which disclosed details of the incident, is tracking the activity cluster under its chemical element-themed moniker NEPTUNIUM, which is an Iran-based company known as Emennet Pasargad. In January 2022, the U.S. Federal
Vesuvius, the London Stock Exchange-listed molten metal flow engineering company, says it has shut down some of its IT systems after being hit by a cyber attack.
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Incogni. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Cybercrimes happen much more often than you might think and affect a growing amount of people. With crimes such as identity theft and various other scams, being mindful of your digital show more ...
A former software engineer at Ubiquiti Networks has pleaded guilty to stealing gigabytes of data from the firm, attempting to extort millions of dollars, and damaging the company's reputation in the media. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
