This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Holiday Season Cyberattacks May Increase By More Than 20% Starting This Week

As we approach the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, organizations should be paying close attention to potential cyberattacks coming their way, if history offers any indication of what’s to come. According to the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU, organizations saw a +20.5% increase in attempted...

Holiday Season Cyberattacks May Increase By More Than 20% Starting This Week

As we approach the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, organizations should be paying close attention to potential cyberattacks coming their way, if history offers any indication of what’s to come. According to the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU, organizations saw a +20.5% increase in attempted...

Double Whammy: When One Attack Masks Another Attack

In some contexts, a double whammy can mean a good thing: when your favorite team wins two games in a row, when two candy bars fall from the vending machine, etc. However, in the context of cyber security, a double whammy may translate to being attacked while still reeling from the impact of anoth...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Newly Uncovered 'SowBug' Cyber-Espionage Group Stealing Diplomatic Secrets Since 2015

A previously unknown hacking and cyber-espionage group that has been in operation since at least 2015 have conducted a series of highly targeted attacks against a host of government organizations in South America and Southeast Asia to steal their sensitive data. Codenamed Sowbug, the hacking grou...

Malaysian Data Breach Leaves Stolen Data Online for a ‘Long Time’

A 2014 data breach may have left the personal details for tens of millions of Malaysians for sale online for “a long time,” according to Vijandren Ramadass, the founder of tech portal Lowyat.net, who uncovered the data leak. According to a New York Times report, “Malaysia said on Wednesday it was...

Fear the Reaper, or Reaper Madness?

Last week we looked at reports from China and Israel about a new "Internet of Things" malware strain called "Reaper" that researchers said infected more than a million organizations by targeting newfound security weaknesses in countless Internet routers, security cameras and digital video recorde...

FIN7 Spear Phishing Attacks Now Aim At Avoiding Detection

By Uzair Amir The FIN7 hacking group has been targeting organizations from the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FIN7 Spear Phishing Attacks Now Aim At Avoiding Detection...

Spoofed SEC Emails Distribute Evolved DNSMessenger

This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Colin Grady, with contributions from Dave Maynor and @Simpo13.Executive SummaryCisco Talos previously published research into a targeted attack that leveraged an interesting infection process using DNS TXT records to create a bidirectional command and...

Taking Healthcare Threat Protection to the Next Level with HITRUST

Healthcare organizations HCOs worldwide continue to be on the receiving end of cyber-attacks. But if we work together we have both the tools and motivation to turn this around. That’s why Trend Micro has been a long-time partner and advocate of the great work HITRUST is doing to help improve...

Gary McGraw on BSIMM8 and Software Security

Software security pioneer Gary McGraw talks to Mike Mimoso about the latest iteration of the Building Security In Maturity Model BSIMM report. BSIMM is a snapshot of how some of the world’s biggest tech companies and enterprises are handling secure development practices. Gary talks about some of...

September 5, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “The Office” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! September 5, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black’s Cb Defen...

Introducing WhiteBear

As a part of our Kaspersky APT Intelligence Reporting subscription, customers received an update in mid-February 2017 on some interesting APT activity that we called WhiteBear. Much of the contents of that report are reproduced here. WhiteBear is a parallel project or second stage of the Skipper...

CVE-2014-8183

It was found that foreman in Satellite 6 did not properly enforce access controls on certain resources. An attacker with access to the API and knowledge of the resource name can access resources in other organizations...

North Korea Hit By Konni and Inexsmar Malware After Missile Tests

By Uzair Amir An unknown hacking group has been targeting organizations in North This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: North Korea Hit By Konni and Inexsmar Malware After Missile Tests...

Security Analysis with SonarQube Plugin

SonarQube Figure 1: The SonarQube dashboard lists security vulnerabilities detected by RIPS code analysis. Global organizations use SonarQube to concentrate different quality analysis tools in one place for easy management, maintenance, and learning potential of findings. Seasoned developers are...

Further Advances the State of Cyber Threat Information Sharing into Cyber Threat Management and Response

Healthcare organizations HCOs are not immune to large-scale cyberattacks, as evident by the most recent attacks WannaCry and Petya. In fact, HCOs are an attractive target for hackers because of the immense amount of personally identifiable information housed in their systems. The industry is wide...

Spring Dragon – Updated Activity

Spring Dragon is a long running APT actor that operates on a massive scale. The group has been running campaigns, mostly in countries and territories around the South China Sea, since as early as 2012. The main targets of Spring Dragon attacks are high profile governmental organizations and...

CVE-2017-7535

foreman before version 1.16.0 is vulnerable to a stored XSS in organizations/locations assignment to hosts. Exploiting this requires a user to actively assign hosts to an organization that contains html in its name which is visible to the user prior to taking action...