Unpatched VirtualBox Zero-Day Vulnerability and Exploit Released Online

An independent exploit developer and vulnerability researcher has publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in VirtualBox—a popular open source virtualization software developed by Oracle—that could allow a malicious program to escape virtual machine guest OS and execute code on the operating...

DarkPulsar

In March 2017, the ShadowBrokers published a chunk of stolen data that included two frameworks: DanderSpritz and FuzzBunch. DanderSpritz consists entirely of plugins to gather intelligence, use exploits and examine already controlled machines. It is written in Java and provides a graphical window...

It’s Everyone’s Job to Ensure Online Safety at Work

As part of our effort to support National Cyber Security Awareness Month I wanted to provide information on the need for everyone within a business to be aware of their role in keeping the organization safe from cyber attacks. Let’s discuss some of the areas where we see existing organizations...

Major weapon systems developed by US DoD highly vulnerable to cyber attacks

By Uzair Amir Several Critical Vulnerabilities Identified in Major Weapon Systems Being Developed by US DoD. The advanced weapon systems developed by the US Department of Defense with a whopping estimated expenditure of $1.66 trillion are plagued with grave flaws, which make them a potential targ...

Security Vulnerabilities in US Weapons Systems

The US Government Accounting Office just published a new report: "Weapons Systems Cyber Security: DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Vulnerabilities" summary here. The upshot won't be a surprise to any of my regular readers: they're vulnerable. From the summary: Automation and connectivi...

Most Threatening DNS Security Risks And How To Avoid Them

By Zehra Ali The DNS or Domain Name System is one of the most necessary components for the internet functionality. Most often, the internet businesses are negligent to the security of their digital identity that is the DNS. This poor security of DNS makes it vulnerable to many cyber attacks which...

Imperva Joins Global Cybersecurity Tech Accord

Imperva is dedicated to the global fight to keep people's data and applications safe from cybercriminals. What this means for our Imperva Threat Research team is that we spend a lot of time researching new cyber attacks, creating mitigations and writing powerful software. We believe that nothing...

Aviation & Logistics: Island Hopping – A Growing Threat

When we think about the industries that have the most to lose from a serious cyber attack, our minds probably immediately go to the Finance, Healthcare, and Energy sectors. And for good reason - as Carbon Black research shows, 78% of IR professionals say they observe attacks on the financial...

ThreatList: Attacks on Industrial Control Systems on the Rise

The systems that power the manufacturing, power and water plants, the oil and gas industry, and many other sectors are increasingly in the crosshairs of cyber-attackers: A full 41.2 percent of industrial control system ICS were attacked by malicious software at least once in the first half of 201...

Microsoft Detects More Russian Cyber Attacks Ahead of Mid-Term Election

Microsoft claims to have uncovered another new Russian hacking attempts targeting United States' Senate and conservative think tanks ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. The tech giant said Tuesday that the APT28 hacking group—also known as Strontium, Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Sednit, and Pawn Storm,...

ThreatList: Almost All Security Pros Believe Election Systems Are at Risk

As the U.S. midterm election season gets underway in earnest, concerns about the ability to hack the vote is more in the spotlight than ever. A fresh survey from Venafi has found that a full 93 percent of security pros are concerned about cyber-attacks targeting election infrastructure. The poll,...

With Healthcare Security Flaws, Safety’s Increasingly at Stake

LAS VEGAS – The healthcare space continues to face threats when it comes to cybersecurity – and researchers are concerned that security threats are evolving from impacting patient data privacy to actually threatening patient safety. A lax culture around cybersecurity from medical device...

IT threat evolution Q2 2018. Statistics

Q2 figures According to KSN: Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked 962,947,023 attacks launched from online resources located in 187 countries across the globe. 351,913,075 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. Attempted infections by malware designed to steal money via...

Partner Perspectives: The Target Strikes Back – Predicting the Persistent Attacker

Idan Bellayev is the head of security research for empow. Predicting cyber-attacks has long been an elusive goal in the cyber-security industry. Methods such as Lockheed Martin's Cyber Kill Chain evangelized the idea that staying one step ahead of your adversary is the way to defeat advanced,...

America’s largest diagnostics service LabCorp suffers massive data breach

By Waqas Private records of millions of patients could be at risk following the breach. Security experts have been warning about expected cyber-attacks on healthcare industry since last year’s huge hack-attack on Florida based Medicaid in which private data of nearly 30,000 patients were exposed…...

800K Patient Records At Issue in ProCare Health Snafu

Four healthcare IT companies are warning that one of New Zealand’s largest networks of family doctors, nurses and general practice teams has been storing hundreds of thousands of patient records containing personally identifiable information PII – without the knowledge or consent of the data...

An Example of Deterrence in Cyberspace

In 2016, the US was successfully deterred from attacking Russia in cyberspace because of fears of Russian capabilities against the US. I have two citations for this. The first is from the book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, by Michae...

Federal Agencies Face an Uphill Battle in Cyber-Preparedness

In the wake of the elimination of the federal cybersecurity czar position, the latest federal cybersecurity preparedness report from the Office of Management and Budget OMB and the Department of Homeland Security DHS shows that U.S. government is nowhere near ready for prime time when it comes to...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Overview

Carbon Black recently published a report on the newest threats facing the financial world, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live...

Hidden Cobra Strikes Again with Custom RAT, SMB Malware

The feds are warning that the North Korean APT group known as Hidden Cobra is mounting active attacks on U.S. businesses and others globally, including organizations in the media, aerospace, financial and critical infrastructure sectors. According to a United States Computer Emergency Readiness...