Troy Hunt
MARCH 28, 2022
Data breaches impact us all as individuals, companies and as governments. Over the last 4 years, I've been providing additional access to data breach information in Have I Been Pwned for government agencies responsible for protecting their citizens. The access is totally free and amounts to APIs designed to search and monitor government owned domains and TLDs.
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 28, 2022
The Ukrainian Security Service (SSU) has announced that since the start of the war with Russia, it has discovered and shut down five bot farms with over 100,000 fake social media accounts spreading fake news. [.].
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CSO Magazine
MARCH 28, 2022
On March 10, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) hosted the annual Global Threat Assessment briefing during which representatives of the US intelligence community availed themselves for questions. The intelligence community contingent was led by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, who was supported by CIA Director William Burns, DIA Director Lieutenant General Scott Berrier, NSA Director General Paul Nakasone, and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
CyberSecurity Insiders
MARCH 28, 2022
To all the millions of android users, here’s some news that needs your attention on an immediate note. According to a research conducted by Douglas Leith, a Computer Science Professor working at Trinity College of Dublin, Google Phone and Messages app have been sending data to Google servers without the consent of its users. “The practice of sending information to remote servers has been taking place from the past few years and it is against the GDPR regulations, the data protection law that pro
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How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.
Security Boulevard
MARCH 28, 2022
Most companies that have a hand in building, operating, and maintaining our nation’s critical infrastructure know the promises of digital transformation: greater efficiency, better customer experiences, and innovative business models (e.g., digital services). Most are on board with the fact that securing critical infrastructure must go hand in hand with running it.
GlobalSign
MARCH 28, 2022
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The State of Security
MARCH 28, 2022
Cloud computing has emerged as the go-to organizational workload choice because of its innate scalability and flexibility. However, cloud computing still comes with some security risks. Examining cloud security is an important part of adopting this new technology. Presently, cloud-native security is experiencing changes and innovations that help address security threat vectors.
Heimadal Security
MARCH 28, 2022
The Korplug RAT (also known as PlugX) is a spyware that has previously been associated with Chinese APT organizations and has been linked to targeted assaults on significant institutions in a number of different countries. The RAT functionality of the variation utilized in the most recent campaign is mostly consistent with the RAT feature of […].
Cisco Security
MARCH 28, 2022
The text below is a joint work of Maria Jose Erquiaga, Onur Erdogan and Adela Jezkova from Cisco Cognitive team. Emotet (also known as Geodo and Heodo) is a banking trojan, but it is also a modular malware that can be used to download other malware as Trickbot and IcedID [8, 9, 13]. Emotet was observed for the first time in 2014 [9]. In January 2021, in a combined effort by Interpol and Eurojust, Emotet was taken down [12].
Heimadal Security
MARCH 28, 2022
Following the identification of a V8 vulnerability in Chrome and Edge that shows an exploit in the wild, users who employ Windows, macOS, and Linux should update Chrome builds to version 99.0.4844.84 as an out-of-band security update has been recently released by Google to address this issue, ZDNet mentions. About the V8 Vulnerability There is […].
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In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.
We Live Security
MARCH 28, 2022
ESET researchers describe the structure of the virtual machine used in samples of Wslink and suggest a possible approach to see through its obfuscation techniques. The post Under the hood of Wslink’s multilayered virtual machine appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 28, 2022
Hackers are compromising WordPress sites to insert a malicious script that uses visitors' browsers to perform distributed denial-of-service attacks on Ukrainian websites. [.].
Malwarebytes
MARCH 28, 2022
Google has urged its 3 billion+ users to update to Chrome version 99.0.4844.84 for Mac, Windows, and Linux to mitigate a zero-day that is currently being exploited in the wild. This is in response to a bug reported by an anonymous security researcher last week. The flaw, which is tracked as CVE-2022-1096 , is a a “Type Confusion in V8” and is rated as high severity, meaning that it’s necessary for everyone using Chrome to update as quickly as possible because of the damage atta
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 28, 2022
Microsoft will allow Windows users to block drivers with known vulnerabilities with the help of Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) and a vulnerable driver blocklist. [.].
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Within the past few years, ransomware attacks have turned to critical infrastructure, healthcare, and government entities. Attackers have taken advantage of the rapid shift to remote work and new technologies. Add to that hacktivism due to global conflicts and U.S. elections, and an increased focus on AI, and you have the perfect recipe for a knotty and turbulent 2024.
Security Boulevard
MARCH 28, 2022
On Friday, March 25, 2022, Google released an out-of-cycle emergency update for Chrome, tracked as CVE-2022-1096 regarding a high-severity vulnerability in the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine. What happened? Google Chrome experienced a zero-day attack (a zero-day attack is when a threat actor exploits a vulnerability before software developers can find a fix).
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 28, 2022
Microsoft has released the optional KB5011563 cumulative update preview for Windows 11, with fixes for stop errors triggering blue screens of death (BSOD) and other issues. [.].
Security Affairs
MARCH 28, 2022
The Anonymous collective hacked the Russian construction company Rostproekt and announced that a leak that will Blow Russia Away. . Anonymous continues its offensive against Russia, the collective announced the hack of the Russian construction company Rostproekt and announced a leak that will blow Russia away. Link to the stolen data from the company have been published on the leak site DDoSecrets.
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 28, 2022
Meet Satoshi Island, a 32 million square foot private isle giving you access to pristine waters, year-round sunlight, modular homes, and the "promise of a decentralized future." The Satoshi Island we're talking about isn't a tale of fiction, but a real-life private island dedicated to the crypto community. [.].
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The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers. Tracking tools on user-authenticated and unauthenticated web pages can access personal health information (PHI) such as IP addresses, medical record numbers, home and email addresses, appointment dates, or other info provided by users on pages and thus can violate HIPAA Rules that govern the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates.
Security Boulevard
MARCH 28, 2022
In 2021, FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3, received 19,954 complaints of BEC scams resulting in over 2.3 billion dollars in losses to businesses and individuals in the US. The post What are BEC (Business Email Compromise) Scams? appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 28, 2022
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal civilian agencies to patch a Google Chome zero-day and a critical Redis vulnerability actively exploited in the wild within the next three weeks. [.].
Security Boulevard
MARCH 28, 2022
The Open Source Software (OSS) community has been split in two after an OSS author repurposed his own library to protest the Ukrainian-Russian war. On March 7, RIAEvangelist released several versions of his “node-ipc” software package—which has been downloaded millions of times—with some versions reportedly overwriting code on machines presumably located in Russia and Belarus. […].
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 28, 2022
The distribution of the IcedID malware has returned to notable numbers thanks to a new campaign that hijacks existing email conversations threads and injects payloads that are hard to spot as malicious. [.].
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The losses companies suffered in 2023 ransomware attacks increased by 74% compared to those of the previous year, according to new data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The true figure is likely to be even higher, though, as many identity theft and phishing attacks go unreported. Ransomware attackers can potentially paralyze not just private sector organizations but also healthcare facilities, schools, and entire police departments.
Security Boulevard
MARCH 28, 2022
The key to effectively safeguarding business platforms and keeping customers safe today is by stopping malicious bots. Bots allow bad actors to launch attacks at a massive scale so that only a small percentage need to be successful for the attacker to turn a profit. Automated scripts are cheap to acquire and easy to deploy, […]. The post Top 20 Considerations When Looking for a Bot Prevention Vendor appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 28, 2022
The Commission for Communications and IT at "PC??", the country's largest entrepreneurship union, has warned about the rising threat of extensive service outages due to a lack of telecom equipment. [.].
The Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2022
A new email phishing campaign has been spotted leveraging the tactic of conversation hijacking to deliver the IcedID info-stealing malware onto infected machines by making use of unpatched and publicly-exposed Microsoft Exchange servers.
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 28, 2022
Security hardware manufacturer SonicWall has fixed a critical vulnerability in the SonicOS security operating system that allows denial of service (DoS) attacks and could lead to remote code execution (RCE). [.].
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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
Security Affairs
MARCH 28, 2022
While Twitter suspends some Anonymous accounts, the collective hacked All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK). On Friday, Anonymous announced that the affiliate group Black Rabbit World has leaked 28 GB of data stolen from the Central Bank of Russia. MESSAGE FROM #ANONYMOUS RABBIT: "People shouldn't be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of their people." The Central Bank of Russian Federation leak (28 GB) has been published by Anonymou
CSO Magazine
MARCH 28, 2022
Blame it on pandemic fatigue, remote work or just too much information, but employees appear to be lowering their guard when it comes to detecting social engineering tricks. Attackers were more successful with their social engineering schemes last year than they were a year earlier, according to Proofpoint. More than 80% of organizations suffered a successful email-based phishing attack in 2021, according to a survey of 3,500 professionals.
The Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2022
You don't like having the FBI knocking on your door at 6 am in the morning. Surprisingly, nor does your usual cybercriminal. That is why they hide (at least the good ones), for example, behind layers of proxies, VPNs, or TOR nodes. Their IP address will never be exposed directly to the target's machine. Cybercriminals will always use third-party IP addresses to deliver their attacks.
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 28, 2022
SunCrypt, a ransomware as service (RaaS) operation that reached prominence in mid-2020, is reportedly still active, even if barely, as its operators continue to work on giving its strain new capabilities. [.].
Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.
When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.
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