Fox IT

APRIL 29, 2022

Considering that BUMBLEBEE is actively being developed on, the operator(s) did not implement a command to update the loader’s binary, resulting the loss of existing infections. 56 108.62.118[.]61 Distribution via OneDrive links. Email thread hijacking with password protected ZIP. 45 103.175.16[.]46 46 104.168.236[.]99

Encryption 75

Encryption Passwords Malware Software 75

SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

According to the survey, the preventative tasks most commonly performed by SOC teams are updating allow and block lists (79.6% of respondents), updating ATP policies (64.9%) implementing new mail-flow rules (56%), updating sensitivity and confidence settings (44.3%) and updating signature files (28.9%).

Phishing 136

Phishing Media Network Security 136

Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

In 2021, 56 percent of K–12 schools and 64 percent of higher education institutions reported being hit by some type of ransomware. Install, regularly update, and enable real-time detection for antivirus software. And it should come as no surprise that the cyberthreat doing the most damage to education is ransomware.

Education 60

Education Ransomware Cybersecurity Risk 60

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We are excited to announce the Velocity Update for our application security platform, ShiftLeft CORE! With this update, AppSec and Development teams can fix security issues in source code even more quickly and efficiently. The update adds a number of improvements to the platform that can be found at the end of this post.

Mobile 52

Mobile Accountability Education Engineering 52

Troy Hunt

JULY 23, 2018

In total, this meant 12,363 separate domains and only 56 of them redirected to HTTPS. Now mind you, that list of 56 sites represents 0.45% of the 12,363 I scanned so even whilst they're anomalous, they have very little bearing on the overall objective of the project. Data Source.

Government 165

Government VPN Banking 165

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 24, 2018

This was actually inspired by my weekly update videos and we all felt that if I'm going to be talking about culture, a bit more personality would go a long way and that's something that's easier to impart via video.

Education 176

Education CISO Encryption Passwords 176

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Investigators would later determine that a variant of the malware used in the Target breach was used in 2014 to steal 56 million payment cards from Home Depot customers. However, the last update on that profile is from 2018, when Shefel appears to have legally changed his last name. Six of those domains are some variation of FreeFrog.

Cybercrime 213

Cybercrime Accountability Advertising Computers and Electronics 213

Jane Frankland

JANUARY 13, 2021

Supply chain attacks are up too and fresh in our minds is December’s SolarWinds breach where threat actors gained access to governments and numerous public and private organisations around the world via trojanized updates to its Orion IT monitoring and management software.

Cybersecurity 100

Cybersecurity Risk Government Technology 100

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In general, here are some of the most frequent best practices to protect against malware: Update all network, application, and device software promptly. The best way to minimize potentially nasty bugs is consistent updates for your software. Using strong passwords that you update regularly can go a long way towards keeping you safe.

Malware 104

Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 104

Scary Beasts Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The exploit is running against a default install of Fedora 24, except that the gstreamer packages were upgraded to the latest: dnf update gstreamer* (v1.8.3-1.fc24.x86_64). FLX_LC; no-op to set flxdec->size to 56, but it is already 56. The terminal output shows an amusing side effect of the exploit, which we’ll cover later.

Media 101

Media Engineering Risk Hacking 101

Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2021

During an attack of this nature, it is difficult to find clear patterns without fast data and log processing and ad-hoc tools but our DNS servers were clearly recording these spikes of DNS updates every time the botnet was renewing IP addresses. 24 (56 IPs) during the attack 10-19th August 2021). 24 55 188.170.75.0/24

DDOS 110

DDOS DNS Mobile Authentication 110

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

I wrote a blog post about my concerns given Linux is embedded everywhere, yet many of these systems are rarely, and even never updated with security updates. CD Projekt Red later in the month said it was delaying an update to their Cyberpunk game until late March due to the cyberattack. VULNERABILITIES AND SECURITY UPDATES.

Energy and Utilities 145

Energy and Utilities Ransomware DDOS Accountability 145