Youve received an email at work asking you to change your email password, confirm your vacation period, or make an urgent money transfer at the request of the CEO. Such unexpected requests could be the start of a cyberattack on your company, so you need to make sure its not a scam. So how do you check email addresses show more ...
When their roles intersect, IT ops and security teams often find themselves at odds. Here are some ways to foster collaboration.
NATO asserts that their cyber experts continue to look into the claims and that its classified networks remain secure.
Developers need more software security safeguards earlier in the process, especially as AI becomes more common.
Voice, face, and vein recognition each have its pros and cons. Here's what CISOs need to know.
Everyone benefits — the CISO, the company, and the insurer — when CISOs are included in arranging cyber insurance.
In a letter to the DoJ, FTC, and CISA, Oregon's Wyden also called for Microsoft to be held accountable in the sprawling SolarWinds breach.
The contextual cybersecurity search platform helps security teams gather information about the organization’s environment and security posture.
The malware, along with a sister strain dubbed "FakeTrade," was found lurking in Google Play.
The more artificial intelligence builds out our digital personas, the easier it will become for bad actors to target us with more convincing attacks.
Techniques are similar to those in previous North Korean attacks and could be linked to well-known cyber-espionage organizations.
The Transportation Security Administration revised its security directive on cybersecurity for oil and natural gas pipelines Wednesday. The directive was issued and later renewed following the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline.
"An unauthenticated attacker can run arbitrary commands with the same privileges as the Metabase server on the server you are running Metabase on," Metabase said in an advisory released last week.
Announced by Director Jen Easterly on Tuesday, the 10 advisers will support election officials working in their respective areas in an effort to “build even stronger connective tissue between state and local election officials and … CISA.”
The CherryBlos malware steals cryptocurrency wallet credentials and replaces withdrawal addresses, while the FakeTrade malware tricks users into downloading apps that promise increased income but prevent fund withdrawals.
The Peloton Treadmill operates on the Android 10 operating system, which may be susceptible to over 1100+ potential vulnerabilities from recent years. Additionally, leaving USB debugging enabled could increase the attack surface.
A new report by Sophos revealed that 79% of higher and 80% of “lower” education institutions were compromised by ransomware over the past year – up from 64% and 56% in 2021, respectively.
While consumers are usually the ones worried about their information being exposed in data breaches, it's now the hacker's turn, as the notorious Breached cybercrime forum's database is up for sale and member data shared with Have I Been Pwned.
Coalition’s recent Cyber Threat Index 2023 predicts the average Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) rate will rise by 13% over 2022 to more than 1,900 per month in 2023.
The attack was claimed by the NoEscape ransomware group, a new gang that emerged in May. Despite paying the ransom, the community college is still in the process of restoring its IT infrastructure.
These vulnerabilities are frequently exploited by malicious actors in data breach incidents and have resulted in the compromise of personal, financial, and health information of millions of users and consumers.
The rule has been delayed several times as the DOD revamp its approach, including changing to the longer proposed rule-making process. Originally, the expectation was that CMMC would come out as an interim final rule to be finalized in 60 days.
The latest analysis of the attack infrastructure from Team Cymru has revealed that the number of BackConnect C2s have shot up from 11 to 34 since January 23, 2023, with the average uptime of a server significantly reducing from 28 days to eight days.
Now tracked as CVE-2023-38750, the security flaw is a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) discovered by security researcher Clément Lecigne of Google Threat Analysis Group.
An ongoing cyber attack campaign has set its sights on Korean-speaking individuals by employing U.S. Military-themed document lures to trick them into running malware on compromised systems.
Researchers at Patchstack discovered and disclosed the three vulnerabilities to the plugin's developer, Saturday Drive, on June 22nd, 2023, warning that it affects NinjaForms versions 3.6.25 and older.
A legitimate Windows search feature could be exploited by malicious actors to download arbitrary payloads from remote servers and compromise targeted systems with remote access trojans such as AsyncRAT and Remcos RAT.
A recently detected malvertising campaign, known as Nitrogen, has been discovered exploiting Google Search and Bing ads to target users searching for IT tools. The Nitrogen campaign predominantly focuses on technology and non-profit organizations in North America. It operates by posing as installers for well-known software such as AnyDesk, Cisco AnyConnect VPN, TreeSize Free, and WinSCP.
The Russian nation-state actor known as BlueBravo has been observed targeting diplomatic entities throughout Eastern Europe with the goal of delivering a new backdoor called GraphicalProton, exemplifying the continuous evolution of the threat.
This Metasploit module exploits authentication bypass (CVE-2018-17153) and command injection (CVE-2016-10108) vulnerabilities in Western Digital MyCloud before 2.30.196 in order to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution as the root user. The module first performs a check to see if the target is WD MyCloud. If show more ...
Joomla Solidres extension version 2.13.3 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4313-01 - PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system.
Users of Metabase, a popular business intelligence and data visualization software package, are being advised to update to the latest version following the discovery of an "extremely severe" flaw that could result in pre-authenticated remote code execution on affected installations. Tracked as CVE-2023-38646, the issue impacts open-source editions prior to 0.46.6.1 and Metabase Enterprise
Cybersecurity agencies in Australia and the U.S. have published a joint cybersecurity advisory warning against security flaws in web applications that could be exploited by malicious actors to orchestrate data breach incidents and steal confidential data. This includes a specific class of bugs called Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR), a type of access control flaw that occurs when an
The Russian nation-state actor known as BlueBravo has been observed targeting diplomatic entities throughout Eastern Europe with the goal of delivering a new backdoor called GraphicalProton, exemplifying the continuous evolution of the threat. The phishing campaign is characterized by the use of legitimate internet services (LIS) for command-and-control (C2) obfuscation, Recorded Future said in
The threat actors linked to the malware loader known as IcedID have made updates to the BackConnect (BC) module that's used for post-compromise activity on hacked systems, new findings from Team Cymru reveal. IcedID, also called BokBot, is a strain of malware similar to Emotet and QakBot that started off as a banking trojan in 2017, before switching to the role of an initial access facilitator
An ongoing cyber attack campaign has set its sights on Korean-speaking individuals by employing U.S. Military-themed document lures to trick them into running malware on compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm Securonix is tracking the activity under the name STARK#MULE. "Based on the source and likely targets, these types of attacks are on par with past attacks stemming from typical North
As part of Checkmarx's mission to help organizations develop and deploy secure software, the Security Research team started looking at the security posture of major car manufacturers. Porsche has a well-established Vulnerability Reporting Policy (Disclosure Policy)[1], it was considered in scope for our research, so we decided to start there, and see what we could find. What we found is an
A legitimate Windows search feature is being exploited by malicious actors to download arbitrary payloads from remote servers and compromise targeted systems with remote access trojans such as AsyncRAT and Remcos RAT. The novel attack technique, per Trellix, takes advantage of the "search-ms:" URI protocol handler, which offers the ability for applications and HTML links to launch custom local
Critical security vulnerabilities in a WordPress plugin used on around 900,000 websites, allow malicious hackers to steal sensitive information entered on forms. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
After a ransomware attack which saw the personal information of 28,000 individuals stolen by hackers, Hawaii Community College has confirmed that it has paid a ransom.
Bills granting access to end-to-end encrypted systems, opportunity for cybercriminals, abuse by authority, human rights, and tech companies leaving the UK?
