Redacted Documents Are Not as Secure as You Think

Popular redaction tools don’t always work as promised, and new attacks can reveal hidden information, researchers say...

Join us at InfoSec Jupyterthon 2022

Notebooks are gaining popularity in InfoSec. Used interactively for investigations and hunting or as scheduled processing jobs, notebooks offer plenty of advantages over traditional security operations center SOC tools. Sitting somewhere between scripting/macros and a full-blown development...

Join us at InfoSec Jupyterthon 2022

Notebooks are gaining popularity in InfoSec. Used interactively for investigations and hunting or as scheduled processing jobs, notebooks offer plenty of advantages over traditional security operations center SOC tools. Sitting somewhere between scripting/macros and a full-blown development...

Researchers Reveal Details of New Threats: AXLocker, Octocrypt and Alice Ransomware

By Deeba Ahmed AXLocker ransomware is now known as a threat that targets Discord users. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researchers Reveal Details of New Threats: AXLocker, Octocrypt and Alice Ransomware...

Research sector targeted in new spear phishing attack using Google Drive

By Deeba Ahmed The attackers gain access to the network through decoy documents covering controversial geo-political topics to lure the targeted organizations into downloading and executing the malware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Research sector targeted in new spear...

Iranian hackers leveraged Log4Shell to penetrate US federal agency

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Iranian APT activity was detected on the networks of federal agencies. The intruders utilized an exploit targeting Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228 to install XMRig crypto mining software on an unpatched VMware...

North Korean Hackers Targeting Europe and Latin America with Updated DTrack Backdoor

Hackers tied to the North Korean government have been observed using an updated version of a backdoor known as Dtrack targeting a wide range of industries in Germany, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the U.S. "Dtrack allows criminals to upload, download, start ...

Email Cyberattacks on Arab Countries Rise in Lead to Global Football Tournament

Email Cyberattacks on Arab Countries Rise in Lead to Global Football Tournament By Daksh Kapur · November 17, 2022 This story was also written by Sparsh Jain. Figure 1 Global eyes are soon to be turned to the first global football tournament to be held in the Arab world kicking off on November 20...

Cradlepoint IBR600

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.1 ATTENTION: Low attack complexity Vendor: Cradlepoint Equipment: IBR600 Vulnerabilities: Command Injection 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute code and native system commands. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1...

Email Security Best Practices for Phishing Prevention

Trend Micro Research reported a 137.6% growth in phishing attacks blocked and detected in 2021. Explore the latest phishing trends and email security best practices to enhance your email security and reduce cyber risk...

Highly Sophisticated Phishing Scams Are Abusing Holiday Sentiment

The holiday season is around the corner, which means phishing season is too. Akamai Security Research details the new ways adversaries are abusing the holidays...

ous-research.no Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3052651

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

QSC 2022: Qualys’ Threat Research Unit (TRU) – Our Shield Is Your Shield

Day two of QSC profiled the special launch of the Qualys Threat Research Unit, TRU. Taking the audience through a madcap tour of what the threat research unit is doing to provide intelligence and actionable insights into its census was Travis Smith, VP of Qualys Threat Research Unit. He dove deep...

Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 10, 2022): Vulnerability research, movies in class, and Emotet once again

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Tuesday was an absolute hammer for the infosec community. Not only did we have the US elections but we had Emotet returning and a regular Microsoft Tuesday release. That release always leads me to think about the bug hunting ecosystem...

Simplify privacy protection with Microsoft Priva Subject Rights Requests

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR came into effect in 2018 and set a new standard for the level of control individuals in the European Union had on the personal data they shared online. Since then, the number of privacy regulations around the world has flourished and impacted the privac...

Simplify privacy protection with Microsoft Priva Subject Rights Requests

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR came into effect in 2018 and set a new standard for the level of control individuals in the European Union had on the personal data they shared online. Since then, the number of privacy regulations around the world has flourished and impacted the privac...

KmsdBot: The Attack and Mine Malware

Akamai security research has observed a new malware: a cryptominer with dreams of DDoS functionality. Read about kmdsbot in this blog...

New Research: Optimizing DAST Vulnerability Triage with Deep Learning

On November 11th 2022, Rapid7 will for the first time publish and present state-of-the-art machine learning ML research at AISec, the leading venue for AI/ML cybersecurity innovations. Led by Dr. Stuart Millar, Senior Data Scientist, Rapid7's multi-disciplinary ML group has designed a novel deep...

Patch Tuesday, November 2022 Election Edition

Lets face it: Having “2022 election” in the headline above is probably the only reason anyone might read this story today. Still, while most of us here in the United States are anxiously awaiting the results of how well weve patched our Democracy, it seems fitting that Microsoft Corp. today...

Get Your Patch Tuesday Vulnerabilities Patched on Tuesday

Every IT person is familiar with Patch Tuesdays. It’s the time of the month where IT needs to put their daily work aside and prepare for patching their entire IT environment. However, for many organizations Patch Tuesday is not a single event that occurs as an isolated point in time. It typically...