Syniverse Hack

This is interesting: A company that is a critical part of the global telecommunications infrastructure used by AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and several others around the world such as Vodafone and China Mobile, quietly disclosed that hackers were inside its systems for years, impacting more than 200 o...

Iranian Hackers Abuse Dropbox in Cyberattacks Against Aerospace and Telecom Firms

Details have emerged about a new cyber espionage campaign directed against the aerospace and telecommunications industries, primarily in the Middle East, with the goal of stealing sensitive information about critical assets, organizations' infrastructure, and technology while remaining in the dar...

Criminals were inside Syniverse for 5 years before anyone noticed

"A global privacy disaster", "espionage gold", and "a state-sponsored wet dream" are just some of the comments one can read regarding the breach at Syniverse, a key player in the tech/telecommunications industry that calls itself the "center of the connected world." In a filing with the US Securi...

Linux Implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon Targeting Organizations Worldwide

Researchers on Monday took the wraps off a newly discovered Linux and Windows re-implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon that's actively set its sights on government, telecommunications, information technology, and financial institutions in the wild. The as-yet undetected version of the penetratio...

Cybercriminals Selling Access to Compromised Networks: 3 Surprising Research Findings

Cybercriminals are innovative, always finding ways to adapt to new circumstances and opportunities. The proof of this can be seen in the rise of a certain variety of activity on the dark web: the sale of access to compromised networks. This type of dark web activity has existed for decades, but i...

Cloudflare mitigated one of the largest DDoS attack involving 17.2 million rps

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service DDoS attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed customer in the financial industr...

The European Space Agency Launches Hackable Satellite

Of course this is hackable: A sophisticated telecommunications satellite that can be completely repurposed while in space has launched. … Because the satellite can be reprogrammed in orbit, it can respond to changing demands during its lifetime. … The satellite can detect and characterise any rog...

Risks in Telecommunications IT

We summarize the characteristics, threats, and recommendations to improve the security posture of enterprises' and telecommunications companies' IT infrastructure...

Unauthorized access vulnerability in Tilgin router of Hong Kong Broadband Network Ltd.

Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited is a leading provider of integrated telecommunications and technology solutions. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited's Tilgin router, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information...

Indexsinas SMB Worm Campaign Infests Whole Enterprises

The Indexsinas SMB worm is on the hunt for vulnerable environments to self-propagate into, researchers warned – with a particular focus on the healthcare, hospitality, education and telecommunications sectors. Its end goal is to drop cryptominers on compromised machines. Indexsinas, aka...

Cyber espionage by Chinese hackers in neighbouring nations is on the rise

A string of cyber espionage campaigns dating all the way back to 2014 and likely focused on gathering defense information from neighbouring countries have been linked to a Chinese military-intelligence apparatus. In a wide-ranging report published by Massachusetts-headquartered Recorded Future th...

Russia bans VyprVPN, Opera VPN services for not complying with blacklist request

Russia's telecommunications and media regulator Roskomnadzor RKN on Thursday introduced restrictions on the operation of VyprVPN and Opera VPN services in the country. "In accordance with the regulation on responding to threats to circumvent restrictions on access to child pornography, suicidal,...

Intentional Flaw in GPRS Encryption Algorithm GEA-1

General Packet Radio Service GPRS is a mobile data standard that was widely used in the early 2000s. The first encryption algorithm for that standard was GEA-1, a stream cipher built on three linear-feedback shift registers and a non-linear combining function. Although the algorithm has a 64-bit...

Did Someone at the Commerce Dept. Find a SolarWinds Backdoor in Aug. 2020?

On Aug. 13, 2020, someone uploaded a suspected malicious file to VirusTotal, a service that scans submitted files against more than five dozen antivirus and security products. Last month, Microsoft and FireEye identified that file as a newly-discovered fourth malware backdoor used in the sprawlin...

CVE-2021-21726

Some ZTE products have an input verification vulnerability in the diagnostic function interface. Due to insufficient verification of some parameters input by users, an attacker with high privileges can cause process exception by repeatedly inputting illegal parameters. This affects:...

CISA Releases Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Exploitation of Accellion File Transfer Appliance

The cybersecurity authorities of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States have released Joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA21-055A: Exploitation of Accellion File Transfer Appliance. Cyber actors worldwide have exploited vulnerabilities in Accellion File Transfer...

Jinan Yuxia Information Technology Co., Ltd. website building system suffers from SQL injection vulnerabilities (CNVD-2021-12787)

Jinan Yuxia Information Technology Co., Ltd. to the Internet products and related services as the main direction, is a collection of website construction and network promotion, IDC business, software development, server hosting, telecommunications value-added services and other integrated service...

RCE vulnerability in FiberHome routers

Ltd., or FiberHome, is a listed company headquartered in Wuhan, China. FiberHome is a listed company in the telecommunications equipment manufacturing industry headquartered in Wuhan, China. A RCE vulnerability exists in FiberHome routers, which can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrar...

Trickbot disrupted

As announced today, Microsoft took action against the Trickbot botnet, disrupting one of the world’s most persistent malware operations. Microsoft worked with telecommunications providers around the world to disrupt key Trickbot infrastructure. As a result, operators will no longer be able to use...

Voice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers networks. But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level,...