CVE-2019-4334

CVE-2019-4334 affects IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 . The connected documents indicate an information-disclosure vulnerability where an authenticated user could obtain sensitive information, with the NVD listing a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium). The IBM security bulletin confirms the i...

News Wrap: Voice Assistant Laser Hack, Twitter Insider Threats, Data Breach Fine Fails

Threatpost editors break down the top news stories for the week ended Nov. 8. The hot stories of the week include: Despite trillions of dollars in data-breach fine payouts, each year the number of compromised companies and individuals with private data exposed rise – a Threatpost feature looks at...

How Machine Learning is Changing the Face of Financial Services

Artificial intelligence AI has become integrated into our everyday lives. It powers what we see in our social media newsfeeds, activates facial recognition to unlock our smartphones, and even suggests music for us to listen to. Machine learning, a subset of AI, is progressively integrating into o...

What’s So Dangerous About Spear Phishing?

Spear phishing is one of the most common and most effective cyberattack vectors seen today. Delivered through email, spear phishing campaigns aim either to infect devices with malware, or to steal important information—like credentials and bank numbers. Spear phishing is targeted at specific grou...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of sj-tw-test-security contain malicious code. The package downloads and runs a script that opens a reverse shell in the system. Recommendation Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that...

Rogue TrendMicro Employee Sold Customer Data to Tech Support Scammers

Do you always uncomfortable trusting companies with your data? If so, you're not alone. While companies do much to protect themselves from external threats, insiders always pose the highest risk to a company's data. Unfortunately, when we say companies can't eliminate insider threat completely,...

Rogue TrendMicro Employee Sold Customer Data to Tech Support Scammers

Do you always uncomfortable trusting companies with your data? If so, you're not alone. While companies do much to protect themselves from external threats, insiders always pose the highest risk to a company's data. Unfortunately, when we say companies can't eliminate insider threat completely,...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in the Website Building System of Shanghai Enterprise Torch Advertising and Media Company Limited (CNVD-2019-43596)

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Rogue Trend Micro Employee Sold Customer Data for 68K Accounts

Trend Micro said that a rogue employee sold the data of 68,000 customers to a malicious third party, who then used that data to target customers with scam calls. The employee, who gained unauthorized access to a customer-support database, has since been terminated. Trend Micro said that the...

Here are the most popular robocall scams and how to avoid them

We recently examined how robocall scams are a serious threat to privacy, alongside the astonishing rate at which their volume continues to increase. Forty-three billion calls in 2019 with an average of 131 calls per person in the US alone is not something to be sniffed at. No matter how careful y...

Eye Clinic Breach Reveals Data of 20,000 Patients

A Utah eye clinic is in the process of informing 20,000 patients that they were the victims of a data breach that happened a year and a half ago and linked patients to a scam involving PayPal. The breach at the Utah Valley Eye Center in Provo, Utah, that exposed patient emails once again highligh...

News Wrap: Office 365 Voicemail Phish and Bed Bath and Beyond Breach

Threatpost editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell break down the top security news of this week, from data breaches to advanced persistent threat APT activity. Top stories include: A Microsoft alert that APT group Fancy Bear has targeted anti-doping authorities and sporting organizations around...

Leading Web Domain Name Registrars Disclose Data Breach

Another day, another massive data breach—this time affecting a leading web technology company, as well as both of its subsidiaries, from where millions of customers around the world have purchased domain names for their websites. The world's top domain registrars Web.com, Network Solutions, and...

Two Hackers Who Extorted Money From Uber and LinkedIn Plead Guilty

Two grey hat hackers have pleaded guilty to blackmailing Uber, LinkedIn, and other U.S. corporations for money in exchange for promises to delete data of millions of customers they had stolen in late 2016. In a San Jose courthouse in California on Wednesday, Brandon Charles Glover 26 of Florida a...

Murky Details Surround Bed, Bath and Beyond Breach

Housewares and home furnishings purveyor Bed, Bath and Beyond has disclosed a data-thieving cyber attack that allowed the adversaries to access customers’ online accounts. According to a Tuesday SEC filing, the company “discovered that a third party acquired email and password information from a...

City of Johannesburg, on Second Hit, Refuses to Pay Ransom

The city of Johannesburg, South Africa, is refusing to pay a ransom of four Bitcoins to a hacker group who accessed the city’s network and stole sensitive data, threatening to release it if the ransom wasn’t paid. It’s the second time in several months that the city has been hit with a cyberattac...

Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub breach

Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world's largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been...

CVE-2019-5533

In VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud versions 3.x prior to 3.3.0, the VeloCloud Orchestrator parameter authorization check mistakenly allows enterprise users to obtain information of Managed Service Provider accounts. Among the information is username, first and last name, phone numbers and e-mail addre...

Joker's Stash Drops Largest-Ever Credit Card Cache on Dark Web

Joker’s Stash, a Dark Web destination that specializes in trading in payment-card data, has added 1.3 million credit and debit cards to its inventory, belonging to Indian banking customers. Researchers said it’s the largest stolen payment card cache ever put up for sale. According to Group-IB, th...

UniCredit Suffers Third Breach Despite Investing Billions in Cybersecurity

Despite investing 2.4 billion euros since 2016 to upgrade its cybersecurity profile, Italian banking institution UniCredit has suffered its third recent data breach, this time impacting 3 million customers. The company said in a short data breach announcement on its website that names, telephone...