Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Technical Report: The Prospect of Iranian Cyber Retaliation

Several different events in the Middle East ME region have escalated in the last several weeks between Iran and the United States. After a series of military operations between the two countries, several alerts were released from the U.S. government of a potential for cyberattacks. Traditionally...

Microsoft Warns of Unpatched IE Browser Zero-Day That's Under Active Attacks

Internet Explorer is dead, but not the mess it left behind. Microsoft earlier today issued an emergency security advisory warning millions of Windows users of a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer IE browser that attackers are actively exploiting in the wild — and there is no patch ye...

Business in the front, party in the back: backdoors in elastic servers expose private data

It seems like every day we read another article about a data breach or leak of cloud storage exposing millions of users' data. The unfortunate truth is that the majority of these leaks require no actual "hacking" on the part of the attacker. Most of the time, this highly confidential data is just...

PoC Exploits Released for Citrix ADC and Gateway RCE Vulnerability

It's now or never to prevent your enterprise servers running vulnerable versions of Citrix application delivery, load balancing, and Gateway solutions from getting hacked by remote attackers. Why the urgency? Earlier today, multiple groups publicly released weaponized proof-of-concept exploit cod...

Critical Firefox 0-Day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now!

Attention! Are you using Firefox as your web browsing software on your Windows, Linux, or Mac systems? If yes, you should immediately update your free and open-source Firefox web browser to the latest version available on Mozilla's website. Why the urgency? Mozilla earlier today released Firefox...

How Iran's Hackers Might Strike Back After Soleimani's Assassination

From data-destroying wipers to industrial control system hacking, Iran has a potent arsenal of cyberattacks at its disposal...

7 Tips for Maximizing Your SOC

It takes a special sort of person to be a security analyst. The person must be detail-oriented, curious, intelligent and hard-working, and with a quick reaction time as constant attacks unfold. These analysts have deep expertise that they use during their long shifts to sort through what’s worth...

Combining AI and Playbooks to Predict Cyberattacks

When organizations invest in AI, they are not only able to automate menial tasks like patching, but they can also create an automated system that looks for and discovers attacks, not only after the fact, but even before they occur. This predictive capability becomes increasingly necessary as...

Podcast: What We've Learned from the Year of the Breach

This podcast is sponsored by Arctic Wolf. Large-scale data breaches hitting organizations like Capital One and Georgia Tech in 2019 show that companies continue to be targeted in malicious cyberattacks that expose customers’ personal data and valuable records. Threatpost host Cody Hackett sat dow...

Iranian Attacks on Industrial Control Systems

New details: At the CyberwarCon conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Microsoft security researcher Ned Moran plans to present new findings from the company's threat intelligence group that show a shift in the activity of the Iranian hacker group APT33, also known by the names Holmium,...

‘Tis the Season for Holiday Cyber Heists

‘Tis the season for cyberattacks, particularly when it comes to the retail industry. According to the VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU, retail organizations may see a noticeable spike in attempted cyberattacks during the holiday season. Click here to download the full report TAU’s...

Email Voted a Weak Link for Election Security, with DMARC Lagging

As the 2020 Presidential election looms closer in the United States, a key focus will be on securing election infrastructure to prevent tampering. In a recent analysis, researchers found that email remains a potential weak link, with most counties failing to implement DMARC protections. DMARC whi...

Feds Offer $5M Reward to Nab 'Evil Corp' Dridex Hacker

U.S. authorities are offering up $5 million for information leading to the arrest of Evil Corp. leader Maksim V. Yakubets, 32, of Russia, who goes under the moniker “aqua.” The U.S. alleges that Yakubets and his company have stolen millions of dollars from victims using the Dridex banking trojan...

VMware Carbon Black Threat Report: One Year Out From the 2020 U.S. Elections, Geopolitical Tension Continues to Spawn Cyberattacks

This morning, VMware Carbon Black released its latest Global Incident Response Threat Report GIRTR. Now in its fourth edition, the GIRTR is written in partnership with VMware Carbon Black's incident response IR partner ecosystem and aggregates input from top IR experts to give you, the reader, a...

Security Firms, Nonprofits Team to Fight Stalkerware

The scourge of so-called “stalkerware” has accelerated as mobile cyberattacks in general have become more common, and it’s something that’s being addressed through a security industry collaboration that launched this week. The term “stalkerware” refers to both surreptitious spyware available on t...

Iran’s APT33 Hackers Are Targeting Industrial Control Systems

The recent focus on ICS raises the possibility that Iran's APT33 is exploring physically disruptive cyberattacks...

Holiday Shoppers Beware: 100K Malicious Sites Found Posing as Well-Known Retailers

As the holiday season looms, cybercrooks are going after shoppers with more than 100,000 lookalike domains mimicking legitimate retailers. The news comes as a new report shows that in tandem, the retail industry is experiencing more breaches than any other industry in 2019 as criminals consistent...

Lizard Squad Threatens UK's Labour Leader with Cyberattacks Against His Family

Lizard Squad, the well-known hacktivist cybergang, is pledging to mount personal cyberattacks on Britain’s Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. As the UK continues to be roiled by Brexit debate ahead of a Dec. 12 general election, the Labour Party said on Tuesday that it had been targeted by a...

How to Secure Critical Infrastructure When Patching Isn't Possible

Cyberattacks are on the rise and threatening our digital life and our most intimate information — but also our operational realities. Attacks on critical infrastructure such as power plants, water works, airports and the like transportation ranks among the highest-value targets for cyberattackers...

Amazon's Ring Video Doorbell Lets Attackers Steal Your Wi-Fi Password

Security researchers at Bitdefender have discovered a high-severity security vulnerability in Amazon's Ring Video Doorbell Pro devices that could allow nearby attackers to steal your WiFi password and launch a variety of cyberattacks using MitM against other devices connected to the same network...