BlueBorne: Critical Bluetooth Attack Puts Billions of Devices at Risk of Hacking

If you are using a Bluetooth enabled device, be it a smartphone, laptop, smart TV or any other IoT device, you are at risk of malware attacks that can carry out remotely to take over your device even without requiring any interaction from your side. Security researchers have just discovered total...

Two Popular IP Cameras Riddled With Vulnerabilities

Two consumer-grade IP-enabled security cameras manufactured by Loftek and VStartcam are riddled with nearly two dozen vulnerabilities that expose them to remote attacks. According to researchers, more than 1.3 million of the cameras are in use today, with 200,000 models located in the United...

Russian Financial Cybercriminal Gets Over 9 Years In U.S. Prison

A 29-year-old Russian-born, Los Angeles resident has been sentenced to over nine years in prison for running botnets of half a million computers and stealing and trafficking tens of thousands of credit card numbers on exclusive Russian-speaking cybercriminal forums. Alexander Tverdokhlebov was...

The Evolution of Cybercrime and What It Means for Data Security

Cybercrime is now an industry unto itself. And, just as any industry evolves, so does the cybercrime industry. This industry is built upon enterprise data. Granted, there is a ready underworld supply chain and market for vulnerabilities, attack kits, botnets, APTs, phishing-as-a-service,...

Scan of Internet Reveals Millions of Exposed Services

If you thought WannaCry inspired a global wakeup call and a massive crackdown on exposed and dangerous ports, you would be wrong. In its annual National Exposure Index report, Rapid7 found 160 million computers, IoT devices and servers with open ports that should not be exposed to the public...

Trump's Top Cybersecurity Boss Talks Priorities

BOSTON–Citing Mirai and WannaCry as recent examples, Rob Joyce, special assistant to the president and cyber security coordinator for the White House, said the global landscape of cyber threats can’t be ignored and the U.S. needs to sharpen its defenses when it comes to fending off attacks. “If y...

Trump Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order

President Trump today signed a long-delayed cybersecurity executive order that prioritizes the protection of federal networks and critical industries, and instructs agency heads to implement the NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The order was to be signed in late...

Shodan’ Malware Hunter to Expose Command & Control Centers of Botnets

By Jahanzaib Hassan Recorded Future, a threat intelligence company together with Shodan, which is an internet search engine connecting services to internet devices, have created an online crawler which they call the Malware Hunter. What does it do? The Malware Hunter is a program that sends out...

Apache Struts 2 Exploits Installing Cerber Ransomware

Attackers are attempting to exploit the recent Apache Struts vulnerability on Windows servers and the payload is a variant of the Cerber ransomware. The SANS Internet Storm Center on Thursday said it has seen numerous attempts during the past month to exploit the vulnerability in this way. The fl...

Dahua Patching Backdoor in DVRs, IP Cameras

A California firm is rushing to patch a backdoor that apparently exists in a host of DVRs, CCTV and IP cameras it manufactures. Engineers with Dahua Technology USA began pushing firmware updates for the issue on Monday, something the company says stems from “a small piece of code.” The company sa...

On IoT Botnets, Ransomware, and More

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook recap 2016’s biggest news stories, including the proliferation of IoT botnets, the rise of ransomware, the FBI vs. Apple battle, Yahoo, and a rash of old password breaches. Download: Threatpost2016YearinReview.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Four New Normals for 2017

Let’s not talk about cybersecurity predictions for 2017. Let’s talk instead about new normals, things that have ceased to be novel because, well, they happen all the time and everywhere. Let’s concede that things such as greedy ransomware, imposing IOT botnets, high-profile bug bounties and...

Mirai Giving DDoS-as-a-Service Industry a Boost

The availability of the Mirai malware source code online isn’t a guarantee that just anyone can quickly convert it into a money-making IoT-based DDoS botnet. Researchers at Digital Shadows have been combing dark web sites such as the Hackforums where black hat Anna-Senpai dropped the Mirai code i...

Malware exploit: Herpes Net 3.0

Type: SQL Injection Author: bwall import random import pycurl import urllib import cStringIO import json def ui: try: return unicodei, errors='ignore' except: return i class HerpesNetPanel: def initself, gatewayurl: self.gatewayurl = gatewayurl @staticmethod def getfieldgateway, table, column, ro...

Sony Closes Backdoors in IP-Enabled Cameras

Sony, in late November, provided a firmware update for a popular IP-enabled camera line used by enterprises and law enforcement alike that closed off remote administration backdoors. The backdoors could be abused to draft these devices into botnets or allow for manipulation of images and...

Rule 41 — FBI Gets Expanded Power to Hack any Computer in the World

Hacking multiple computers across the world just got easier for the United States intelligence and law enforcement agencies from today onwards. The changes introduced to the Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by the United States Department of Justice came into effect on Thursday,...

New Cerber Variant Leverages Tor2Web Proxies, Google Redirects

Criminals behind the latest Cerber ransomware variant are leveraging Google redirects and Tor2Web proxies in a new and novel way to evade detection. Researchers with Cisco Talos spotted the shifting tactic last week when it began tracking the latest Cerber 5.0.1 ransomware variant. The technique...

Lawmakers Asking What ISPs Can Do About DDoS Attacks

IoT botnets and DDoS attacks have prominent lawmakers asking government agencies some probing questions about what can be done. Sen. Mark Warner D-VA on Tuesday sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission—as well as the Federal Trade Commission and Homeland Security—querying among othe...

Dyn DDoS Work of Script Kiddies, Not Politically Motivated Hackers

New research on the source of Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn indicates that script kiddies are likely responsible, rather than a politically motivated actor. Researchers at Flashpoint dismissed numerous claims of responsibility that separately linked the attack to the Russian...

Mirai Bots More Than Double Since Source Code Release

The Mirai malware continues to recruit vulnerable IoT devices into botnets at a record pace, one that’s only gone up since the source code for Mirai was made public two weeks ago. Level 3 Communications, a telecommunications company and Internet service provider in Colorado, has identified the...