ACSC Releases Annual Cyber Threat Report

The Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC has released its annual report on key cyber security threats and trends for the 2020–21 financial year. The report lists the exploitation of the pandemic environment, the disruption of essential services and critical infrastructure, ransomware, the rapid...

Cybercrime: Today and the Future

Trend Micro Research experts Erin Sindelar and Rik Ferguson use current trends and data to paint a picture of cybercrime in 2021 and shine a light on what it could look like in 2030...

Newark Releases Latest Global IoT Trends Report

The latest trend report also said that security concerns negatively impact the adoption of IoT technologies and the growth of Industry 4.0...

Anyone for Alphabet Soup? ZTNA, SWGs, MFA, and More: Lessons Learned from Fed Day CyberThreats 2021

Last week, we gathered a few of the most prominent leaders and experts from every corner of the federal space to talk about all things cybersecurity and digital transformation. Discussions ranged from the move toward Zero Trust Network Access ZTNA, and effectively managing identities and access...

Tracking Malware and Ransomware Domains in 2021

In 2021, the threat of ransomware has loomed large. In many ways, it’s exactly what cybersecurity experts expected and predicted after the major cyber attacks of 2020—including hospital ransomware attacks on a healthcare industry hard-hit by both ransomware and Covid-19. But in other ways, this...

This Week in Security News - July 16, 2021

Trends and Shifts in the Underground N-Day Exploit Market and Scams Make Getting Verified on Social Media a Minefield...

InsightVM Release Announcement: Global Dashboard Filters

InsightVM users have been able to create dashboards, add different visualizations in the form of cards and apply filters to these cards. Rapid7 also provided dashboard templates which enabled users to create views focusing on scenarios such as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, identifying and assessing...

Quarterly Report: Incident Response trends from Spring 2021

By David Liebenberg and Caitlin Huey. While the security community made a great effort to warn users of the exploitation of several Microsoft Exchange Server zero-day vulnerabilities, it was still the biggest threat Cisco Talos Incident Response CTIR saw this past quarter. These... This is only t...

Scammers Pose as Meal-Kit Services to Steal Customer Data

Attackers are piggybacking off the booming market for meal-kit delivery services since the pandemic, and sending SMS phishing messages doctored up to look like they’re legitimate correspondence from popular brand names — including HelloFresh and Gousto. This is just another example of why the wor...

Patch Tuesday Dashboard Template Release

We know that many security teams rely on Microsoft’s patch cycle to remediate vulnerabilities in their environments. However, every month , Patch Tuesday introduces numerous vulnerabilities and their solutions that apply to many, if not nearly all, devices. Keeping up with the deployment of these...

Anyone For a Smart Network Slice?

As with any standardization effort, development of 5G specifications accounted for numerous technology trends and new use cases...

M-Trends 2021: A View From the Front Lines

We are thrilled to launch M-Trends 2021, the 12th edition of our annual FireEye Mandiant publication. The past year has been unique, as we witnessed an unprecedented combination of global events. Business operations shifted in response to the worldwide pandemic and threat actors continued to...

[Webinar] Oy Vey, We Hired a Large, Hairy Hacker…

It's not every day that one of the best-known independent cybersecurity individuals joins a cybersecurity company. The two are generally on opposite sides of the coin, with little crossover. After all, they're usually concerned with different parts of the cybersecurity puzzle – one providing...

Trend Micro 2020 Annual Cybersecurity Report

Reviewing the most important cybersecurity stories, issues, and trends that occurred over 2020, this annual report aims to equip security leaders with valuable insight and tools so they can focus on both protecting and enabling the organization...

Fedora 33 : nagios (2021-5689072a7e)

The remote Fedora 33 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-5689072a7e advisory. - Nagios 4.4.5 allows an attacker, who already has administrative access to change the URL for JSON CGIs configuration setting, to modify the Alert Histogram...

CVE-2021-26855

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2021-03-03 02:44:45+00:00| seen| https://t.me/cibsecurity/24377 2021-03-03 04:00:00+00:00| seen| https://www.govcert.gov.hk/en/alertsdetail.php?id=556 2021-03-03 06:30:17+00:00| seen| MISP/76591c3b-efb3-4084-a644-87a6cca8c784 2021-03-07 19:26:18+00:00|...

Mobile Adware Booms, Online Banks Become Prime Target for Attacks

Hackers painted a bullseye on the backs of online financial institutions in 2020 as the pandemic shuttered local branch offices and forced customers online. Over the past 12 months, incidents of adware nearly tripled. And, overall in 2020 researchers saw a slight drop in the number of mobile...

Extortion, precision malware, and ruthless scams. Read the State of Malware 2021 report

Last year, threat actors took advantage of the COVID-19 public health crisis in a way previously considered unimaginable, not only preying on uncertainty and fear during the initial months of the global pandemic, but retooling attack methods, reneging on promises, strengthening malware, and...

What Google learned from 1 billion evil email scams

Google and researchers at Stanford University have released an in-depth study analysing 5 months of phishing / malware mails sent globally. "Who is targeted by email-based phishing and malware? Measuring factors that differentiate risk" looked at more than a billion mails. The results were then f...

Phishing: Holiday Season Attacks on the Rise

Overview Phishing continues to be a major attack vector, and it's surprising just how many security incidents and breaches start with an employee clicking on a link in a carefully crafted phishing email and sometimes doing the same with a not-so-well crafted phishing email -- see this example...