Ransomware at IT Services Provider Synoptek

Synoptek, a California business that provides cloud hosting and IT management services to more than a thousand customers nationwide, suffered a ransomware attack this week that has disrupted operations for many of its clients, according to sources. The company has reportedly paid a ransom demand ...

iNSYNQ Ransom Attack Began With Phishing Email

A ransomware outbreak that hit QuickBooks cloud hosting firm iNSYNQ in mid-July appears to have started with an email phishing attack that snared an employee working in sales for the company, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. It also looks like the intruders spent roughly ten days rooting around...

Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ hit by MegaCortex ransomware

By Uzair Amir MegaCortex ransomware was discovered in May this year. iNSYNQ, a United States-based Cloud hosting provider has been hit by a massive ransomware attack crippling its cyberinfrastructure preventing customers from accessing their accounting data. It must be noted that iNSYNQ provides...

QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack

Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it is trying to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its network and has left customers unable to access their accounting data for the past three days. Unfortunately for iNSYNQ, the company appears to be turning a deaf ear to the increasingly anxious...

Zombieload: Intel CPU exposure of a new side channel attack-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

! Security personnel recently discovered for Intel processor of the new side channel attack, which is also following the earlier Meltdown, the Spectre and Foreshadow after a fairly serious security problems. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to obtain the current processor is processing th...

Cloud Hosting Provider DataResolution.net Battling Christmas Eve Ransomware Attack

Cloud hosting provider Dataresolution.net is struggling to bring its systems back online after suffering a ransomware infestation on Christmas Eve, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company says its systems were hit by the Ryuk ransomware, the same malware strain that crippled printing and deliver...

GoDaddy Leaks ‘Map of the Internet’ via Amazon S3 Cloud Bucket Misconfig

UPDATE GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has exposed high-level configuration information for tens of thousands of systems and competitively sensitive pricing options for running those systems in Amazon AWS, thanks to yet another cloud storage misconfiguration. The documents wer...

Moodle 3.x SSRF Vulnerability (Jan 2018) - Windows

Moodle is prone to a server-side request forgery SSRF vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only if description...

Moodle 3.x SSRF Vulnerability (Jan 2018) - Linux

Moodle is prone to a server-side request forgery SSRF vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only if description...

Fuze Patches Bug That Exposed Recordings of Private Business Meetings

Fuze, an enterprise-grade voice and video collaboration platform, has patched a vulnerability that exposed recordings of private meetings. A fix was made server-side by Fuze, and a patch was pushed to its endpoint client apps within 11 days of being privately notified by researchers at Rapid7...

New Relic: SSL Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) Vulnerability

Hi, I get in touch to report that cloud.newrelic.com is vulnerable to CVE-2014-3566 POODLE. Websites that support SSLv3 and CBC-mode ciphers are potentially vulnerable to an active MITM Man-in-the-middle attack. This attack, called POODLE, is similar to the BEAST attack and also allows a network...

redis -- EVAL Lua Sandbox Escape

Ben Murphy reports: It is possible to break out of the Lua sandbox in Redis and execute arbitrary code. This shouldn’t pose a threat to users under the trusted Redis security model where only trusted users can connect to the database. However, in real deployments there could be databases that can...

Remember once hijacked hang horse experience-Elasticsearch remote execution vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Cause: the The company uses Ucloud cloud hosting services, today morning suddenly told that there is a server of the outlet flow surge in foreign contract amount within a short time reached 1 0 0 million, and all the UDP type, the first feeling was: Gee, could there be dark, is when the broiler!...

U.S. based Cloud Hosting providers contribute 44% of Malware distribution

U.S. has the top Security Agencies like NSA, FBI to tackle cyber crime and terrorism with their high profile surveillance technologies, but even after that U.S is proudly hosting 44% of the entire cloud based malware distribution. With the enhancement in Internet technology, Cloud computing has...

Cybercriminals using hijacked Cloud hosting accounts for targeted attacks

US Cloud hosting providers are constantly targeted by cyber crime according the revelations of two malware researchers Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at Cisco Systems, and Dave Monnier security expert at Team Cymru explained during the 2013 Gartner Security and Risk Management Summi...

Cybercriminals using hijacked Cloud hosting accounts for targeted attacks

US Cloud hosting providers are constantly targeted by cyber crime according the revelations of two malware researchers Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at Cisco Systems, and Dave Monnier security expert at Team Cymru explained during the 2013 Gartner Security and Risk Management Summi...