Akamai’s DDoS Mitigation Service Triggers Outages

UPDATE Major financial institutions, airlines and the Hong Kong stock exchange were knocked offline by a backfiring distributed denial-of-service DDoS mitigation service Thursday. The hour-long outage, which was triggered at approximately 1 a.m. EST Thursday, is tied to Akamai Technology’s...

Ukraine Police Arrest Cyber Criminals Behind Clop Ransomware Attacks

Ukrainian law enforcement officials on Wednesday announced the arrest of the Clop ransomware gang, adding it disrupted the infrastructure employed in attacks targeting victims worldwide since at least 2019. As part of an international operation between the National Police of Ukraine and authoriti...

The vulnerability of the fill_thread_core_info() function in the Linux operating system allows a hacker to disclose sensitive information and cause service interruptions.

The vulnerability of the fillthreadcoreinfo function in the Linux operating system is related to the disclosure of information. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to disclose protected information and cause service failures...

Enphase Envoy 安全漏洞

The Enphase Energy Envoy is a gateway device for connecting smart home devices from Enphase Energy USA. The Enphase Envoy suffers from a security vulnerability that stems from a custom PAM module for user authentication that bypasses traditional user authentication, which uses passwords derived...

The vulnerability of the Cisco Webex Player for Windows and MacOS operating systems stems from insufficient validation of values in Webex recording files, allowing attackers to trigger service interruptions.

The vulnerability of the Cisco Webex Player for Windows and MacOS operating systems is related to insufficient checking of values in Webex recording files. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to trigger a service failure by sending specially crafted WRF Webex Recording Format files...

DarkSide Pwned Colonial With Old VPN Password

It took only one dusty, no-longer-used password for the DarkSide cybercriminals to breach the network of Colonial Pipeline Co. last month, resulting in a ransomware attack that caused significant disruption and remains under investigation by the U.S. government and cybersecurity experts. Attacker...

The vulnerability of the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus protection, related to privilege management errors, allows a perpetrator to elevate their privileges or cause service interruptions.

The vulnerability of the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus protection lies in privilege management errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to increase their privileges or cause service interruptions...

The vulnerability of the ua-parser-js library in the Avrora Application Software, related to uncontrolled resource consumption, allows attackers to cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the ua-parser-js library in Avrora Application Software, related to uncontrolled resource consumption. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to cause service interruptions...

The vulnerability of the cryptographic functions of the GoLang development library used by Aurora Application Software Center is related to errors in the authentication process for certificates. This error allows a perpetrator to cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the cryptographic functions of the GoLang development library used by Aurora Application Software Center is related to errors in the certificate validation process. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker, operating remotely, to cause service failures...

The vulnerability of the Aurora Application Software Debugging Library, related to uncontrolled resource consumption, allows a perpetrator to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Aurora Application Programming Library’s debug library is related to an uncontrolled consumption of resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to deny services through a specially crafted regular expression...

The vulnerability of the KOMPAS-3D three-dimensional modeling system, related to buffer overflow in the stack, allows a hacker to cause a service failure or execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the KOMPAS-3D three-dimensional modeling system is related to the buffer overflow in the stack. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure or execute arbitrary code using a specially crafted T3D format file...

Intelligence-driven disruption of ransomware campaigns

By Neil Jenkins and Matthew Olney. Note: Our guest co-author, Neil Jenkins, is the Chief Analytic Officer at the Cyber Threat Alliance. He leads the CTA's analytic efforts, focusing on the development of threat profiles, adversary playbooks and other analysis using the threat intelligence in the...

Cyberattack Suspected in Cox TV and Radio Outages

A reported ransomware attack on Cox Media Group CMG has crippled streaming and other internal operations of dozens of radio and television stations scattered across America’s 20 broadcast markets. CMG has won’t comment on the reported attack and hasn’t responded to a request for comment. A member...

Ransomware Hits a Food Supply Giant—and Underscores Dire Risk

Hackers targeting JBS USA have disrupted meat processing facilities around the world, just one month after the Colonial Pipeline attack caused fuel distribution havoc...

Cyberattack Forces Meat Producer to Shut Down Operations in U.S., Australia

The world’s largest meat distributor shut down some operations in both the United States and Australia over the Memorial Day weekend after a cyberattack on its IT systems that could have a significant effect on the food supply chain if not resolved quickly. Attackers targeted several servers...

The vulnerability of the Squid proxy server arises from insufficient validation of the data entered by users during the sending of HTTP responses. This allows attackers to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Squid proxy server exists due to insufficient validation of the data entered by users when sending HTTP responses. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to cause service interruptions remotely...

The vulnerability of the Cache Manager API of the Squid proxy server allows a hacker to induce a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Squid proxy server’s Cache Manager API component is related to memory release errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause service interruptions...

IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Non-mobile statistics

These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, in Q1 2021: Kaspersky solutions blocked 2,023,556,082 attacks launched from online resources across the...

Healthcare service faces test of willpower with Ransomware authors

Healthcare and ransomware are in the news in a big way. Data leaks are inevitable, but those are typically associated with accidents by the general public. Possibly the most malicious type of data spillage is when people compromising said data decide to do the spilling. It’s one thing to...

CVE-2021-22411

There is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in some Huawei products. The code of a module have a bad judgment logic. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by performing multiple abnormal activities to trigger the bad logic and cause out-of-bounds write. This may compromise the normal service...