James Comey: FBI Faces Deep Tech-Related Questions

LAS VEGAS – The American law enforcement system is facing a crisis of identity in the face of technology advancement, with cloud migration and automated systems, data privacy and encryption all remaining central issues for the FBI as it considers its mandate and role in the modern digital age...

VPNFilter Malware Infects 500k Routers Including Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR

Malware called VPNFilter has infected 500,000 router brands ranging from Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR and TP-Link that are mostly used in home offices. Researchers at Cisco Talos said they decided to warn the public of the threat despite the fact the infected devices and malware are still under...

Maliciously Changing Someone's Address

Someone changed the address of UPS corporate headquarters to his own apartment in Chicago. The company discovered it three months later. The problem, of course, is that in the US there isn't any authentication of change-of-address submissions: According to the Postal Service, nearly 37 million...

A Five-Year Journey: How Trend Micro Helped Bring Down Scan4You

Trend Micro has always had a close relationship with law enforcement around the globe, because we believe that only together can we make the world a safer place in which to exchange digital information. As the business of cybercrime continues to grow and evolve, so must our response. That’s why w...

PoS Malware ‘TreasureHunter’ Source Code Leaked

Source code for the point-of-sale malware called TreasureHunter has been leaked, according to researchers who said the release offers them unique insights into the malware, but also gives them pause as they brace for expected variants. Not just was TreasureHunter’s source code leaked, but so was...

Two Romanian Hackers Extradited to the U.S. Over $18 Million Vishing Scam

Two Romanian hackers have been extradited to the United States to face 31 criminal charges including computer fraud and abuse, wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Described as "international computer hackers" by the United States Department of Justice, Teodor Laurent...

Twitter Urges Users to Change Passwords Due to Glitch

Twitter said Thursday that a glitch caused account passwords to be stored in plain text on an internal log, sending users across the platform scrambling to change their passwords. The social media company said that it found and has fixed the glitch, and its investigation shows no indication of a...

Introducing Web Security Analytics

Every security team knows that the success of any security product relies heavily on the ability to maintain an optimal security configuration. Any misconfiguration can result in malicious or undesired traffic reaching the application, or worse - legitimate traffic being blocked. In addition, it...

CVE-2018-4878 case: for a Hong Kong Telecommunications Company website is intrusion investigations-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

! Earlier, a researchers found that a Hong Kong Telecommunications Company website hacking attack, 3 May 21, Morphisec laboratory on the site of attack to carry out the investigation, investigators eventually found that the telecommunications company of the Group's official website was hacked, th...

Under Armour Reports Massive Breach of 150 Million MyFitnessPal Accounts

UPDATE Fitness apparel firm Under Armour said 150 million users of its MyFitnessPal app are victims in a breach exposing user names, email addresses and hashed passwords. The company said personal identifiable information such as credit card numbers and social security numbers were not part of th...

Facebook Cracks Down On Data Misuse With Expanded Bug Bounty Program

Facebook said in the coming weeks it will expand its bug bounty program in an attempt to crackdown on data misuse by third-party app developers. The company’s bug bounty program, first started in 2011, prompts researchers to find vulnerabilities on the social media platform – but now will be...

600 Powerful Bitcoin-Mining Computers Worth $2 Million Stolen In Iceland

Around 600 powerful devices specifically designed for mining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been stolen from Icelandic data centers in what has been dubbed the "Big Bitcoin Heist." To make a profit, so far criminals have hacked cryptocurrency exchanges, spread mining malware, and...

USN-3575-2: QEMU regression

USN-3575-1 fixed vulnerabilities in QEMU. The fix for CVE-2017-11334 caused a regression in Xen environments. This update removes the problematic fix pending further investigation. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled guest...

USN-3575-2 qemu regression

USN-3575-1 fixed vulnerabilities in QEMU. The fix for CVE-2017-11334 caused a regression in Xen environments. This update removes the problematic fix pending further investigation. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled guest...

Design/Logic Flaw

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

Dropbox: Exposed Git Repo at http://fileserver.dropboxbusiness.com

The report revealed an exposed git repository on a vendor that Dropbox uses. This endpoint could allow an attacker to retrieve much of the source code and git history for this service which could potentially reveal sensitive information like application secrets. Thankfully, after performing an...

Trend Micro Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms

The endpoint security market is quite dynamic right now, with lots of new entrants, and ongoing innovation for improving threat detection and response. In the midst of all this market energy we are very pleased to be named a Leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platform...

Someone Stole Almost Half a BILLION Dollars from Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange

Coincheck, a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange, has suffered what appears to be the biggest hack in the history of cryptocurrencies, losing $532 million in digital assets nearly $420 million in NEM tokens and $112 in Ripples. In 2014, Mt Gox, one of the largest bitcoin exchange at that time,...

Has Your O365 Account Been Hacked?

In the past six months, Coalfire has seen an increase in businesses receiving fraudulent emails from legitimate client accounts with fraudulent invoice attachments. In several cases, the recipient paid the invoices not realizing they were fraudulent. The losses have ranged between thousands and...

CEO of Major UK-Based Cryptocurrency Exchange Kidnapped in Ukraine

Pavel Lerner, a prominent Russian blockchain expert and known managing director of one of the major crypto-exchanges EXMO, has allegedly been kidnapped by "unknown" criminals in the Ukranian capital of Kiev. According to Ukraine-based web publication Strana, Lerner, 40-year-old citizen of Russia,...