Microsoft works with researchers to detect and protect against new RDP exploits

On November 2, 2019, security researcher Kevin Beaumont reported that his BlueKeep honeypot experienced crashes and was likely being exploited. Microsoft security researchers collaborated with Beaumont as well as another researcher, Marcus Hutchins, to investigate and analyze the crashes and...

Two Former Twitter Employees Caught Spying On Users For Saudi Arabia

Two former employees of Twitter have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government, likely with the purpose of unmasking the identity of dissidents. According to an indictment filed on November 5 and unsealed just yesterday, one of the...

eIDAS-Node 2.3 Authentication Bypass Exploit

Exploit for multiple platform in category web applications ======================================================================= title: Authentication Bypass product: eIDAS-Node vulnerable version: =v2.3 v2.1 vulnerability 2 fixed version: v2.3.1 CVE number: - impact: critical homepage:...

Country of Georgia Suffers Widespread Cyberattack

A cyberattack hit the small country of Georgia, Monday, knocking 2,000 websites as well as the national TV station offline in the largest cyberattack the nation has ever seen. The relatively unsophisticated defacement attack—which replaced normal functionality with an image of former Georgian...

Mitigate then Investigate: Watch a Live DDoS Attack

Recently Andy Shoemaker, founder of NimbusDDOS, and our own David Elmaleh shared their knowledge about DDoS attacks and what it means to have industry-best protection capabilities including fast time to mitigation. They also offered insights into the critical investigation activities that must...

UniCredit Suffers Third Breach Despite Investing Billions in Cybersecurity

Despite investing 2.4 billion euros since 2016 to upgrade its cybersecurity profile, Italian banking institution UniCredit has suffered its third recent data breach, this time impacting 3 million customers. The company said in a short data breach announcement on its website that names, telephone...

UniCredit Bank Suffers 'Data Incident' Exposing 3 Million Italian Customer Records

UniCredit, an Italian global banking and financial services company, announced today that it suffered a security incident that leaked some personal information belonging to at least 3 million of its domestic customers. Officially founded in 1870, UniCredit is Italy's biggest banking and financial...

TikTok, Under Scrutiny, Distances Itself From China

Three senators have called for an investigation into the social media app, which is owned by the Chinese tech giant ByteDance...

Is AWS Liable in Capital One Breach?

Amazon is at least partly blame for the massive 2019 Capital One breach that impacted more than 100 million customers, senators are alleging. Security researchers however are of two minds. In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission FTC this week, U.S. senators Ron Wyden D-Ore. and Elizabeth Warr...

Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption

The US Department of Justice unraveled a dark web child-porn website, leading to the arrest of 337 people in at least 18 countries. This was all accomplished not through any backdoors in communications systems, but by analyzing the bitcoin transactions and following the money: Welcome to Video ma...

Living off the Orchard: Leveraging Apple Remote Desktop for Good and Evil

Attackers often make their lives easier by relying on pre-existing operating system and third party applications in an enterprise environment. Leveraging these applications assists them with blending in with normal network activity and removes the need to develop or bring their own malware. This...

McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service - What The Code Tells Us

McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – What The Code Tells Us By McAfee Labs · October 2, 2019 Episode 1: What the Code Tells Us McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team ATR observed a new ransomware family in the wild, dubbed Sodinokibi or REvil, at the end of April 201...

A Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect

Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her sixties who lived alone. She was found beaten to death. The neighbors didn't see anything. But her Fitbit did...

Automated incident response in Office 365 ATP now generally available

Security teams responsible for investigating and responding to incidents often deal with a massive number of signals from widely disparate sources. As a result, rapid and efficient incident response continues to be the biggest challenge facing security teams today. The sheer volume of these...

Acquiring a VHD to Investigate

In a previous post we described some of the differences between on-premises/physical forensics and cyber investigations and those performed in the cloud, and how this can make cloud forensics challenging. That blog post described a method of creating and maintaining a VM image which can be...

Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct, an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet addresses and used them in large-scale spam campaigns. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the charges are...

Incident Response report 2018

Download full report PDF Introduction This report covers our team's incident response practices for the year 2018. We have thoroughly analyzed all the service requests, customer conversations and incident response deliverables to provide you an overview in numbers. The report includes statistics ...

NASA astronaut accused of accessing ex-wife’s bank account from space

By Waqas The US space agency NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed that it is currently investigating an incident involving one of its astronauts who might have committed the first-ever cyber crime in outer space. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post:...

Hostinger Suffers Data Breach – Resets Password For 14 Million Users

Popular web hosting provider Hostinger has been hit by a massive data breach, as a result of which the company has reset passwords for all customers as a precautionary measure. In a blog post published on Sunday, Hostinger revealed that "an unauthorized third party" breached one of its servers an...

Binance Confirms Hacker Obtained Its Users' KYC Data from 3rd-Party Vendor

As suspected, the KYC details of thousands of Binance's customers that hackers obtained and leaked online earlier this month came from the company's third-party vendor, Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance confirmed. For those unaware, Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange b...