Zero Day

JANUARY 23, 2021

Prosecutors said the technician accessed more than 200 customer CCTV systems on more than 9,600 occasions to spy on them getting naked and engaging in sexual activity.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

The Hacker News reported in exclusive that the security firm SonicWall was hacked as a result of a coordinated attack on its internal systems. TheHackerNews revealed in an exclusive that the security provider SonicWall was hacked on Friday. The company was targeted with a coordinated attack on its internal systems, threat actors exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in their VPN solutions, such as NetExtender VPN client version 10.x and Secure Mobile Access ( SMA ). “The San Jose-based compa

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Zero Day

JANUARY 23, 2021

The networking device vendor has published a series of mitigations as it's investigating the incident and preparing patches.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

A former ADT employee pleads guilty for accessing the cameras he installed at the home of the company’s customers in the Dallas area. Telesforo Aviles (35) is a former ADT employee that pleaded for accessing the cameras he installed at the home of the company’s customers. Every time the man worked at the home of a customer in the Dallas area where an attractive woman was living, he added his personal email address to customers’ “ADT Pulse” accounts, to have real-time access to the vi

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 23, 2021

More details have emerged about a security feature bypass vulnerability in Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) that was addressed by Microsoft as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday updates earlier this month. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-1678 (CVSS score 4.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 23, 2021

Plus: A security company creeper, Biden’s cyberteam, and the rest of this week’s security news.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 23, 2021

The U.K. government recently sent out roughly 800,000 laptops to disadvantaged students who may not have access to one at home. This is part of its plan to distribute one million laptops in an effort to make remote learning easy and accessible for all. Unfortunately, a number of the laptops sent out were discovered to have malware. English students' laptops infected with malware.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 23, 2021

The line between browsers and password managers is blurring.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sophos experts believe that an Iranian company is behind a recently uncovered MrbMiner crypto-jacking campaign targeting SQL servers. Sophos researchers that investigated the recently uncovered crypto-mining campaign targeting SQL servers with MrbMiner malware believe that it was conducted by an Iran-based company. In September, a group of hackers launched brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers with the intent to compromise them and install crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner.

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