The Edge of a Storm?

The SolarWinds element of this breach is likely just the tip of the iceberg as many more businesses leveraging their management tools are exposed to this compromise. Not necessarily from the nation state actor believed to have triggered it, but from the potential sell off of those points of acces...

Subway Sandwich Loyalty-Card Users Suffer Ham-Handed Phishing Scam

Count the Subway sandwich faithful among the latest victims of cybercriminals. Researchers at Sophos discovered a phishing campaign aimed at Subway loyalty-card members in the U.K. and Ireland, in an attempt to trick them into downloading malware. The campaign wasn’t particularly impressive,...

45 Million Medical Images Left Exposed Online

More than 45 million medical images—and the personally identifiable information PII and personal healthcare information PHI associated with them–have been left exposed online due to unsecured technology that’s typically used to store, send and receive medical data, new research has found. A team...

A week in security (December 7 – December 13)

Last week on Malwarebytes podcast we talked to Doug Levin, founder of the K12 cybersecurity resource center and advisor to the K12 Security Information Exchange, about how schools can plan for a cybersecure 2021. We also released a Malwarebytes Labs report revealing that 50 percent of schools did...

Dark Web’s only Finnish language market Sipulimarket seized

By Deeba Ahmed Finnish authorities were able to take down Sipulimarket with support from Polish authorities and Europol. Here's what the marketplace illegally sold. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dark Web’s only Finnish language market Sipulimarket seized...

Feds: K-12 Cyberattacks Dramatically on the Rise

The feds have warned that cyberattacks on the K-12 education sector are ramping up alarmingly. In an alert from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, officials said that data from the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center MS-ISAC shows that in August...

Mount Locker Ransomware Offering Double Extortion Scheme to Other Hackers

A relatively new ransomware strain behind a series of breaches on corporate networks has developed new capabilities that allow it to broaden the scope of its targeting and evade security software—as well as with ability for its affiliates to launch double extortion attacks. The MountLocker...

Mount Locker Ransomware Offering Double Extortion Scheme to Other Hackers

A relatively new ransomware strain behind a series of breaches on corporate networks has developed new capabilities that allow it to broaden the scope of its targeting and evade security software—as well as with ability for its affiliates to launch double extortion attacks. The MountLocker...

Buying COVID-19 vaccines from the Dark Web? No thanks!

Even though we hope that this is an unnecessary warning, we do want to put it out there. As soon as there was talk about a vaccine being available against the COVID-19 virus there were vendors on the Dark Web offering Russian and Chinese COVID-19 vaccines for sale. Now that the UK has started its...

Spearphishing Attack Spoofs Microsoft.com to Target 200M Office 365 Users

A spearphishing attack is spoofing Microsoft.com to target 200 million Microsoft Office 365 users in a number of key vertical markets, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and utility providers. Researchers at Ironscales discovered the campaign targeting several thousand...

Europol Warns COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Vulnerable to Fraud, Theft

With the promise of a widely available COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, Europol, the European Union’s law-enforcement agency, has issued a warning about the rise of vaccine-related Dark Web activity. The agency joins a chorus of security professionals that have concerns about widespread attacks o...

RansomExx Ransomware Gang Dumps Stolen Embraer Data: Report

Hackers have dumped sensitive company data that was stolen during a ransomware attack last month on aircraft manufacturer Embraer. The compromised data appeared on a new dark web site created to publish leaked information, according to a published report. The move appears to be a revenge for the...

Security update for opera (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for opera Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2178-1 Rating: important References: Cross-References: CVE-2020-16013 CVE-2020-16017 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2:NonFree openSUSE Leap 15.1:NonFree An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now...

What the cluck?! Cyber hygiene when eating out.

This feels like the new norm for eating out at a restaurant: Stand uncomfortably, 2 metres from the party in front/furrow your brow when the other party move within your “safe zone”. Make a huge over-theatrical show of sanitising your hands, as though you’re about to perform some major surgery...

Dox, steal, reveal. Where does your personal data end up?

The technological shift that we have been experiencing for the last few decades is astounding, not least because of its social implications. Every year the online and offline spheres have become more and more connected and are now completely intertwined, leading to online actions having real...

Security update for MozillaThunderbird (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for MozillaThunderbird Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2133-1 Rating: moderate References: 1178611 Cross-References: CVE-2020-26950 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: This update f...

Authorities disrupt massive stolen credit card trading scam on dark web

By Deeba Ahmed Dubbed Carding Action 2020; the operation aimed at targeting several dark web marketplaces resulting in saving $48million/€40 million. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities disrupt massive stolen credit card trading scam on dark web...

Digitally Signed Bandook Malware Once Again Targets Multiple Sectors

A cyberespionage group with suspected ties to the Kazakh and Lebanese governments has unleashed a new wave of attacks against a multitude of industries with a retooled version of a 13-year-old backdoor Trojan. Check Point Research called out hackers affiliated with a group named Dark Caracal in a...

Digitally Signed Bandook Malware Once Again Targets Multiple Sectors

A cyberespionage group with suspected ties to the Kazakh and Lebanese governments has unleashed a new wave of attacks against a multitude of industries with a retooled version of a 13-year-old backdoor Trojan. Check Point Research called out hackers affiliated with a group named Dark Caracal in a...

Spotify resets some user logins after hacker database found floating online

A team of researchers working for vpnMentor has found a treasure trove in the form of an unsecured Elasticsearch database containing over 380 million records. The trove contained login credentials and other data belonging to Spotify users. So whats Spotify doing leaving its user data hanging arou...