Ransomware Attack Forces Aluminum Manufacturer to Shutdown Systems Worldwide

--- Photo by Terje Pedersen / NTB scanpix One of the world's largest producers of aluminum has been forced to shut down several of its plants across Europe and the U.S. after an "extensive cyber attack" hit its operations, leaving companies' IT systems unusable. According to a press release share...

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The vulnerability of the SSL_shutdown function in the OpenSSL cryptographic security tool, which allows a hacker to disclose protected information

The vulnerability of the SSLshutdown function in the OpenSSL cryptographic security suite is related to the lack of protection for service data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to disclose the protected information...

Nablarch Denial of Service Vulnerability

Nablarch is a Java application framework based on the middleware model . A security vulnerability exists in Nablarch versions 5, 5u1, and 5u13. A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability to disclose information or cause a system shutdown...

Hackers Favorite CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service Shutting Down

Coinhive, a notorious in-browser cryptocurrency mining service popular among cybercriminals, has announced that it will discontinue its services on March 8, 2019. Regular readers of The Hacker News already know how Coinhive's service helped cyber criminals earn hundreds of thousands of dollars by...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-1559

If an application encounters a fatal protocol error and then calls SSLshutdown twice once to send a closenotify, and once to receive one then OpenSSL can respond differently to the calling application if a 0 byte record is received with invalid padding compared to if a 0 byte record is received...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-1559

If an application encounters a fatal protocol error and then calls SSLshutdown twice once to send a closenotify, and once to receive one then OpenSSL can respond differently to the calling application if a 0 byte record is received with invalid padding compared to if a 0 byte record is received...

CVE-2018-20033

A Remote Code Execution vulnerability in lmgrd and vendor daemon components of FlexNet Publisher version 11.16.1.0 and earlier could allow a remote attacker to corrupt the memory by allocating / deallocating memory, loading lmgrd or the vendor daemon and causing the heartbeat between lmgrd and th...

httpd: Use-after-free on HTTP/2 stream shutdown

When an HTTP/2 stream was destroyed after being handled, the Apache HTTP Server prior to version 2.4.30 could have written a NULL pointer potentially to an already freed memory. The memory pools maintained by the server make this vulnerability hard to trigger in usual configurations, the reporter...

Russian to shut down Internet to test its cyber deterrence

By Carolina To test the security of its data, Russia is considering disconnecting its Internet service for a short period of time. The test will affect all the data sent by Russian citizens or organizations as Internet access would be limited only within the national territory, meaning that they...

Cybersecurity Workers Scramble to Fix a Post-Shutdown Mess

The shutdown may have ended two weeks ago, but federal cybersecurity professionals will be coping with its impact for a long time to come...

User getting App Layering error at logon- "This system was not shutdown properly"

When a domain user logs on to an image that has been published by App Layering and the image has User Layers enabled, they may receive an error...

How the U.S. Govt. Shutdown Harms Security

The ongoing partial U.S. federal government shutdown is having a tangible, negative impact on cybercrime investigations, according to interviews with federal law enforcement investigators and a report issued this week by a group representing the interests of FBI agents. Even if lawmakers move...

U.S. Gov Issues Urgent Warning of DNS Hijacking Attacks

The Department of Homeland Security is ordering all federal agencies to urgently audit Domain Name System DNS security for their domains in the next 10 business days. The department’s rare “emergency directive,” issued Tuesday, warned that multiple government domains have been targeted by DNS...

A week in security (January 14 – 20)

Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at how the government shutdown is influencing cybersecurity jobs, Advanced Persistent Threats group APT10, the comeback of Fallout EK, the hosting of malicious sites on legitimate servers, and the Collection 1 data breach. Other cybersecurit...

Alleged Russian Hacker Pleads Not Guilty After Extradition to United States

A Russian hacker indicted by a United States court for his involvement in online ad fraud schemes that defrauded multiple American companies out of tens of millions of dollars pleaded not guilty on Friday in a courtroom in Brooklyn, New York. Aleksandr Zhukov, 38, was arrested in November last ye...

This Week in Security News: Risky Radio Remotes and Cybercrime

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. This week, learn about Trend Micro’s new research on radio frequency technology and the risks of radio remote controllers. Also, understand why there i...

As the Government Shutdown Drags on, Security Risks Intensify

From potential nation state hacks to a brain drain, the shutdown has done nothing good for cybersecurity...

How the government shutdown is influencing cybersecurity jobs

As of this writing, the government shutdown of 2019 is the longest ever in America. The only good news about this situation is that, with each passing day, a new group of people in the country seems to rediscover just how essential government services are, now that they're unavailable. The next...

A city in Texas is using paper after suffering ransomware attack

By Waqas Another day, another devastating ransomware attack; this time, computers at The City Hall of Del Rio, Texas have suffered a massive ransomware attack forcing authorities to completely shut down the targeted network. The attack took place on Thursday, January 10th after which the City's...