Infection manipulates browsers to snoop on TLS comms Kaspersky says it has uncovered a new malware infection that is able to decode encrypted TLS traffic without the need to intercept or manipulate it.…
No confirmation from Trump yet whether he asked them to do it The Iranian government has attempted to hack into hundreds of Office 365 email accounts belonging to politicians, government officials and journalists last month, Microsoft has warned.…
The agency has issued the warning as more of an alert for the security ... In 2016 customers of a US banking institution were targeted by a cyber ...
France's cyber-security agency has published an alert about cyber-espionage campaigns targeting the infrastructure of service providers and ...
Vulnerabilities with Pulse Secure, Fortinet, and Palo Alto Networks VPNs are called out in the advisory.
The Intel NUC and Nvidia Shield both are vulnerable to high-severity flaws, Intel and Nvidia warned in dual advisories.
While USB drives are frequent pieces of business hardware, a new report says that one-third of US businesses have no policy governing their use.
The National Security Agency’s director issued a rebuke Wednesday of the Chinese government’s recent efforts to spread disinformation online about protests in Hong Kong focused on a controversial Chinese law. “The Chinese government has subverted pro-Democratic demonstrators with fake social media posts, providing us a snapshot of how Beijing weaponizes information,” Gen. Paul Nakasone said while delivering remarks at FireEye’s Cyber Defense Summit in Washington, D.C. As Hong Kong protesters have...
We discovered that the online credit card skimming attack known as Magecart or E-Skimming was actively operating on 3,126 online shops. Our data shows that the attack started on September 7, 2019. All of the impacted online shops are hosted on the cloud platform of the e-commerce service provider “Volusion,” one of the top e-commerce platforms in the market. This is actually the third time we have identified a card skimmer...
49-year-old to appear at the Old Bailey next month A former BAE Systems defence contractor has appeared in court accused of leaking "highly sensitive" secrets to foreign governments.…
ESET researchers discover a previously unreported cyberespionage platform used in targeted attacks against diplomatic missions and governmental institutions, and privacy-concerned users The post ESET discovers Attor, a spy platform with curious GSM fingerprinting appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is talking to members of Congress about expanding the agency's authorities in order to alert ...
The Israel-based ChameleonX aims to protect websites from cyberattacks targeting payment data.
An alleged fraudster built a vast web of AWS cloud accounts, becoming the platform's biggest consumer of data resources.
Eighteen organizations, including the Cyber Threat Alliance and a number of security-focused groups worldwide are among the institute's partners.
The cloud security's CEO and CTO lay out the timeline of events and the steps customers should take to protect their accounts.
Cisco Talos has a new plugin available for IDA Pro that provides a new disassembler for TileGX binaries. This tool should assist researchers in reverse-engineering threats in IDA Pro that target TileGX.
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between Oct 4 and Oct 11. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics, indicators of compromise, and discussing how our customers are automatically protected from these threats. As a reminder, the information provided for the following threats in this post is non-exhaustive...
The House will vote on legislation later this month aimed at limiting foreign interference in U.S. elections after a bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee this week called on Congress to take action on the issue.The move by House...
A new dropper and payload show that Fin7 isn't going anywhere despite a crackdown on the infamous group by law enforcement in 2018.
By aggregating and prioritizing operational and cyber security-based risk, real time decisions can be ... Active PLC Queries: Seamless process for cyber security analysts to create alert parameters so they can quickly set up custom ...
This theoretical paper shows how to factor 2048-bit RSA moduli with a 20-million qubit quantum computer in eight hours. It's interesting work, but I don't want overstate the risk. We know from Shor's Algorithm that both factoring and discrete logs are easy to solve on a large, working quantum computer. Both of those are currently beyond our technological abilities. We barely have quantum computers with 50 to 100 qubits. Extending this requires advances not only in the number of qubits we can work...
The tiny ATtiny85 chip doesn’t look like the next big cyberthreat facing the world, but sneaking one on to a firewall motherboard would be bad news for security were it to happen.
A man confessed to stalking and attacking a young pop star by zooming in on the reflections in her eyes from selfies.
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, or Europol, just released its annual Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) report for the year. And we weren’t surprised to find that ransomware, despite its palpable decline in volume these past few months—a trend we’ve also seen and documented—remains the most prominent threat in terms of prevalence and financial damage. It’s not just data While the IOCTA report talks about online threats that both consumers and...
Attention Linux Users! A vulnerability has been discovered in Sudo—one of the most important, powerful, and commonly used utilities that comes as a core command installed on almost every UNIX and Linux-based operating system. The vulnerability in question is a sudo security policy bypass issue that could allow a malicious user or a program to execute arbitrary commands as root on a targeted
Apple was under fire this week after banning an app that tracked the location of both police and protesters in Hong Kong on a live map.
A campaign first observed last year has ramped up its attack methods and appears to be linked to activity targeting President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.
Feds OK that some companies are opening the checkbook The FBI is easing up a bit on its hardline stance against paying ransomware demands.…
"You misguidedly tried to help your son" by moving his cryptocurrency, but it "didn't help him at all," a judge said.
A UK class action lawsuit against Google, that represents around 5 million iPhone users, can go ahead, according to the UK Court of Appeal.
A new study published Friday finds that cyberattacks on the operational technology (OT) involved in running critical utilities are increasing and says these attacks have the potential to cause “severe” damage.The report, compiled by...
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have issued an advisory to state election officials that the Russian government could use voter suppression tactics in an attempt to interfere in the 2020 U.S. election, according to U.S and state officials familiar with the memo. The advisory sent this week to states’ secretaries of state and security advisers cautions that Moscow could try to keep Americans away from the polls next year by, for example, trying to breach voter registration databases or fanning...
Plus, NSA's Ghidra found to contain faulty code Roundup Here's the latest security news in handy digest form of stories you may have missed over the last week.…
Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. While focusing on network security monitoring, Zeek provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Well grounded in more than 15 years of research, Zeek has successfully bridged the traditional gap between academia and operations since its inception. Today, it is relied upon operationally in particular by many scientific environments for securing their cyber-infrastructure....
LambdaGuard is a tool which allows you to visualise and audit the security of your serverless assets, an open-source AWS Lambda Serverless Security Scanner. AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code. LambdaGuard is an AWS Lambda auditing tool designed to create asset visibility and provide actionable results....
The US, UK and Australian governments last week officially urged Facebook to halt its plans for end-to-end encryption.
Android smartphones are vulnerable to a zero-day exploit that Google thought it had patched for good two years ago.
A group called Phosphorous has been trying to access Microsoft-based email accounts of people associated with the campaign.
A trio of Alabama hospitals have decided to pay for a decryption key.
Researchers say supply chain attacks are responsible for the most significant spikes in Magecart detections.
Millions of iOS users could be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks that trace back to flawed Twitter code used in popular iPhone apps.
A new wave of attacks has been discovered on Drupal-based content management systems that weren't patched for the older flaw.
I have really bad news for Adobe customers in Venezuela… California-based software company Adobe on Monday announced to soon ban accounts and cancel the subscriptions for all of its customers in Venezuela in order to comply with economic sanctions that the United States imposed on the Latin Americ.....
It's coming next month, in spite of a lawsuit and the data regulator's protests about lack of consent, data security and privacy.
Remember the FaceTime bug that allowed a caller to eavesdrop on your phone? Researchers just discovered another - this time in Signal.
Despite claiming they were retiring, GandCrab's authors have been linked to the REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware via a technical analysis.
After adapting their code, a group of Russian-government-linked hackers last month launched a phishing campaign against embassies and foreign affairs ministries of countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, researchers said Tuesday. The hackers, dubbed Sednit by Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET, haven’t been too discreet in their attempts to breach the diplomatic organizations: No less than six malicious packages of code are dropped on the target computer before the payload is executed, ESET...
Vulnerability in iOS 13 and iPadOS affects keyboards installed for iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
A known threat actor, Tortoiseshell, is targeting U.S. military veterans with a fake veteran hiring website that hosts malware.
Clyde Hewitt, executive advisor of cybersecurity firm CynergisTek, said Microsoft's security vulnerability alert provides a "teachable moment" for chief ...
Major automakers are moving full steam ahead with their plans to put self-driving cars on the road, even as lawmakers and regulators in Washington fall behind on creating a cybersecurity framework for those vehicles.The issue of cybersecurity is...
Andrei Tyurin is the first to be convicted in one of the largest thefts of customer data from a single US financial institution in history.
While much of the attention around California’s recently passed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) has focused on the future for Uber and Lyft drivers, bug bounty contractors working in California could also argue they’re covered under the law when it goes into effect next year. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 18 signed AB5, which changes how employers can classify independent contractors and employees. Bug bounty firms rely on freelance hackers to use their platforms and identify or help mitigate software...
Now is a very good time to patch your estate Cisco has doled out yet more security updates for its IOS and IOS XE network operating systems, which, we are obliged to remind you, is its scheduled six-monthly patch run and not the usual "oh bugger" state of affairs.…
One Cisco bug impacting its 800 and 1000 series routers had a CVSS severity score of 9.9.
After finding security weaknesses in two ballot-marking devices at this year’s DEF CON Voting Village, researchers are calling for “more comprehensive studies” of equipment that is increasingly a part of the voter experience. The findings come as states consider the security advantages of election systems that create a paper trail. Ballot-marking devices, or BMDs for short, allow voters to mark their choices on a screen and then print them out. The paper ballots are then counted by hand or scanned...
President facing impeachment probe, Brexit off the rails... but more importantly, your Dunkies account was potentially pwned The US state of New York is suing food chain Dunkin Donuts for what is says is an illegal lapse in computer security.…
Accessed information includes delivery addresses, license numbers, names, phone numbers and more.
There have been reports a cyber attack hit some petrochemical and other companies in Iran Sept. 21, which a state body in charge of cyber security ...
The top European Union court has determined that to store internet users' cookies, website operators need to receive "active consent." The decision on Tuesday came in response to a disagreement between German company Planet49 and a...
An ex-Yahoo! employee has pleaded guilty to misusing his access at the company to hack into the accounts of nearly 6,000 Yahoo users in search of private and personal records, primarily sexually explicit images and videos. According to an press note released by the U.S. Justice Department, Reyes Daniel Ruiz, a 34-year-old resident of California and former Yahoo software engineer, admitted
There's some interesting new research about Russian APT malware: The Russian government has fostered competition among the three agencies, which operate independently from one another, and compete for funds. This, in turn, has resulted in each group developing and hoarding its tools, rather than sharing toolkits with their counterparts, a common sight among Chinese and North Korean state-sponsored hackers. "Every actor or organization under the Russain APT umbrella has its own dedicated malware...
For a fee, of course Recognising that not everyone has climbed aboard the Windows 10 train, Microsoft has thrown a Window 7 Extended Support lifeline to more businesses... for a price.…
Multiyear campaigns stretching back to at least 2014 have been seen using zero-days in region-specific software.
Bad OpSec led to the botnet's discovery -- revealing 800,000 victims in Russia.
The feature will check the strength of saved passwords and alert users when they're compromised in a breach.
The FBI is reportedly using Facebook ads to gather intelligence on Russia, specifically targeting those who may be or know Russian spies. The FBI is running ads in the Washington, D.C., area, CNN reported on Wednesday, that direct to ...
Cops also Cruyff cloggy couple Dutch police said in a translated news release that they have busted a local 'bulletproof' server hosting operation in a major takedown that also nabbed a pair of Mirai botnet operators.…
An unprotected Elasticsearch cluster contained personally identifiable information on Russian citizens from 2009 to 2016.
Eight high-severity vulnerabilities exist in the Foxit Reader tool for editing PDF files.
Capital One failed to maintain appropriate information security practices, including failing to protect its customers' personal information from hackers ...
Exabeam, a security information and event management (SIEM) platform provider, has integrated MITRE ATT&CK Framework labels into its Security ...
The ransomware attack infected computers at DCH Regional Medical ... The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in July issued a warning ...
The Trump administration is planning to urge Facebook to hold off on incorporating end-to-end encryption across its various messaging services until the company can address “public safety” issues with law enforcement agencies around the world.In an...
A double-free bug could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution; users are encouraged to update to a patched version of the messaging app.
For years, Uzbekistan’s feared intelligence agency, the National Security Service, has been accused of aggressively spying on citizens and abusing human rights in the Central Asian country under the guise of its counterterrorism and security operations. Now, the NSS’s reported use of hacking tools in that activity is coming into clearer view, thanks to new research. The ex-Soviet state’s hackers appear to be shedding their training wheels and making a lot of noise in the process. After burning multiple...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday warned patients, providers and manufacturers about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in certain medical devices and health care networks.The vulnerabilities, referred to by the agency as URGENT/11, have...
Fileless threat leverages widely used Node.js framework and WinDivert packet-capture utility to turn infected machines into proxies for malicious behavior.
Match.com allegedly put users on its free version at risk - by not filtering out communications that it knew were from fake accounts.
The malware landscape continues to evolve with the re-emergence of the GandCrab operators and a continued spearphishing attack spreading the LookBack RAT.
Watch out Windows users! There's a new strain of malware making rounds on the Internet that has already infected thousands of computers worldwide and most likely, your antivirus program would not be able to detect it. Why? That's because, first, it's an advanced fileless malware and second, it leverages only legitimate built-in system utilities and third-party tools to extend its
It's an arms race: as detection methods improve, deepfake-generating algorithms are quickly updated to correct the flaws.
In total, Microsoft has now blocked 142 file extensions that it deems as at risk or that are typically sent as malicious attachments in emails.
This data-harvesting tool is perfect for the deep well of low-skilled adversaries looking to make their cybercrime mark.
Contxto – Earlier today, the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) announced a major cybersecurity alert through its Interbank Electronic Payment System.
The malware harvests data, steals cryptocurrency and drops additional malware, while masquerading as a Fortnite aimbot and more.
Remember the Simjacker vulnerability? Earlier this month, we reported about a critical unpatched weakness in a wide range of SIM cards, which an unnamed surveillance company has actively been exploiting in the wild to remotely compromise targeted mobile phones just by sending a specially crafted SMS to their phone numbers. If you can recall, the Simjacker vulnerability resides in a dynamic
September 27, 2019 - The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an alert notifying all sectors of ...
Ernst & Young (EY), a Top 200 MSSP for 2019, has acquired Canadian cybersecurity solutions provider ElevatedPrompt Solutions Inc. for an ...
Microsoft, Mastercard, the Hewlett Foundation and other groups this week announced the launch of an independent institute aimed at investigating cyberattacks and assisting victims.The CyberPeace Institute will work to coordinate recovery efforts for...
Under the Protecting Resources on the Electric Grid with Cybersecurity ... utility regulators across the U.S. have been on high alert for potential cyberattacks, ... The review examined cybersecurity at four state utilities and found the ...
A Pakistani hacker who previously made headlines earlier this year for selling almost a billion user records stolen from nearly 45 popular online services has now claimed to have hacked the popular mobile social game company Zynga Inc. With a current market capitalization of over $5 billion, Zynga is one of the world's most successful social game developers with a collection of hit online
Apple's iOS 13 is suffering from a number of bugs and security problems. ... Despite the fact that you can't see it, the Touch ID dialog prompt hasn't ...
Look, it's CB3ROB – remember them? Cops have seized the physical premises and servers of the Dutch-German ISP that once hosted The Pirate Bay – after storming the hosting biz's ex-NATO bunker hideout with 600 gunmen.…
