Cyber Signals: 3 strategies for protection against ransomware

The “as a service” business model has gained widespread popularity as growing cloud adoption has made it possible for people to access important services through third-party providers. Given the convenience and agility of service offerings, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the “as a servic...

India's Newest Airline Akasa Air Found Leaking Passengers' Personal Information

Akasa Air, India's newest commercial airline, exposed the personal data belonging to its customers that the company blamed on a technical configuration error. According to security researcher Ashutosh Barot, the issue is rooted in the account registration process, leading to the exposure of detai...

The vulnerability of the SBIOS component in NVIDIA’s DGX A100 server allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code, cause system failures, or compromise the confidentiality of protected information.

The vulnerability of the SBIOS component in NVIDIA’s Ofbd server NVIDIA DGX A100 is related to the use of an uninitialized pointer on the stack. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause service failures, or compromise the confidentiality of protected...

Twilio data breach turns out to be more elaborate than suspected

Earlier this month, messaging service Twilio got compromised by a sophisticated social engineering attack. After deploying phishing attacks against company employees, hackers were able to access user data, but now it seems that the impact of the hack was more elaborate than originally assumed. In...

DoorDash Data Breach -Third Party Vendor Blamed Over Phishing Attack

By Deeba Ahmed DoorDash has revealed that hackers managed to steal third-party employee credentials and used them to access some of the company's internal tools and customer data. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DoorDash Data Breach -Third Party Vendor Blamed Over Phishin...

CVE-2022-25625

CVE-2022-25625 relates to Broadcom Symantec Privileged Access Management. The connected sources describe an elevation-of-privilege issue where a malicious unauthorized PAM user can access the administration configuration data and change values. The vulnerability is characterized by MFA-enabled en...

Exploits and TrickBot disrupt manufacturing operations

September 2021 saw a huge spike of exploit detections against the manufacturing industry, with a distributed spread between California, Florida, Ohio, and Missouri. This is combined with heavy detections of unseen malware, identified through our AI engine, spiking in May as well as September 2021...

Reset your password now! Plex suffers data breach

In an email sent to its users, Plex has revealed that a cybercriminal accessed some customer data, including emails and encrypted passwords. From the email that was sent out by the Plex security team: Yesterday, we discovered suspicious activity on one of our databases. We immediately began an...

6 reasons MSPs need a patch management platform

Weve all heard the stories: Organizations getting breached like there's no tomorrow thanks to threat actors exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities. Likewise, weve also all heard the familiar refrain: Patch regularly! But for many businesses--including the Managed Service Providers MSPs that serve...

The Rise of Data Exfiltration and Why It Is a Greater Risk Than Ransomware

Ransomware is the de facto threat organizations have faced over the past few years. Threat actors were making easy money by exploiting the high valuation of cryptocurrencies and their victims' lack of adequate preparation. Think about bad security policies, untested backups, patch management...

Signal Phone Numbers Exposed in Twilio Hack

Twilio was hacked earlier this month, and the phone numbers of 1,900 Signal users were exposed: Heres what our users need to know: All users can rest assured that their message history, contact lists, profile information, whom theyd blocked, and other personal data remain private and secure and...

Criminals socially engineer their way to bank details with fake arrest warrants

When an organization experiences a massive data breach, it knows at least that it needs to inform the federal government about the cybersecurity incident, get law enforcement involved, and then inform its clients and affiliates. Seems simple enough, but this process, which countries from the West...

Threat Roundup for August 12 to August 19

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Aug. 12 and Aug. 19. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

CVE-2022-29891

CVE-2022-29891 is a Cybozu Office vulnerability describing a browse restriction bypass in the Custom App (Cybozu Office 10.0.0–10.8.5). An authenticated remote attacker could obtain Custom App data via unspecified vectors. Affected: Cybozu Office, Custom App components; root cause: bypass of acce...

CVE-2022-29891

Browse restriction bypass vulnerability in Custom Ap of Cybozu Office 10.0.0 to 10.8.5 allows a remote authenticated attacker to obtain the data of Custom App via unspecified vectors...

Ransomwater confusion, does the criminal know who the victim is?

When we say that attribution is always tricky, we are obviously only seeing the half of it. Apparently sometimes even the cybercriminals are not always clear on which company they breached. Clop ransomware put out a statement that they breached Thames Water when in reality their victim was South...

When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexicos second-largest bank was fake news and harming the banks...

Three Keys to Turning Data-centric Security Theory into Practice

Most cybersecurity professionals agree that as more organizations move data and applications to cloud-hosted environments, traditional measures focusing on protecting IT infrastructures are not up to the task. In fact, according to Crowd Research Partners, 84 percent of organizations say...

A week in security (August 8 - August 14)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: KMSpico explained: No, KMS is not "kill Microsoft" Twitter data breach affects 5.4M users Can your EDR handle a ransomware attack? 6-point checklist for an anti-ransomware EDR Twilio breached after social engineering attack on employees Summer of exploitation leads...

Feds: Zeppelin Ransomware Resurfaces with New Compromise, Encryption Tactics

Zeppelin ransomware is back and employing new compromise and encryption tactics in its recent campaigns against various vertical industries—particularly healthcare—as well as critical infrastructure organizations, the feds are warning. Threat actors deploying the ransomware as a service RaaS are...