Why emerging APAC markets are prime targets for the malware of the future

In many ways, Asia has led the way in technological development. Robotics, video games, dizzyingly fast Internet speeds. But when it comes to cybersecurity, several APAC countries, especially those in emerging markets, are severely lacking. And while, according to the 2017 State of Malware Report...

BACKSWING - Pulling a BADRABBIT Out of a Hat

Executive Summary On Oct. 24, 2017, coordinated strategic web compromises started to distribute BADRABBIT ransomware to unwitting users. FireEye appliances detected the download attempts and blocked our user base from infection. During our investigation into the activity, FireEye identified a...

Accelerating Security for Intelligent Transportation Systems: A New Trend Micro Report

Connected cars and autonomous vehicles are getting all the headlines these days, especially when it comes to cybersecurity concerns. But that’s only half of the story. An under-reported but hugely important piece of the puzzle relates to the Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS needed to create...

futureelectronics.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.futureelectronics.com/en/Search.aspx?dsNav=Ntk:PlainTextSearch|aaa"'/-/-!...

Today’s Predictions for Tomorrow’s Internet

This weekend I realized just how much the future of securing the Internet of Things IoT will become a critical component to maintain our lifestyle. CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Education Program created by the Air Force Association to encourage careers in STEM. Each year the program...

Girls Who Code: That's a Wrap!

The Summer Immersion Program for Girls Who Code at Akamai wrapped up this past week. The girls finished their final projects and presented them at a graduation ceremony attended by friends and family as well as supporters and mentors from Akamai. The girls were divided into five teams for their...

CVE-2016-2971

IBM Sametime Media Services 8.5.2 and 9.0 can disclose sensitive information in stack trace error logs that could aid an attacker in future attacks. IBM X-Force ID: 113898...

August 21, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Solar Eclipse” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! August 21, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Trump increases status of...

MARVEL Future Fight - Exported ContentProvider, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application MARVEL Future Fight published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Forecasting the Future of Ransomware

There's no question that ransomware is one of the most formidable threats to a business. With so much riding on digitized data, important applications and other systems, any interruption to access of these crucial assets can quickly spell disaster for an organization. Despite efforts on the part ...

openSUSE Security Update : rxvt-unicode (openSUSE-2017-670)

This update for rxvt-unicode fixes the following issue : While urxvt is not directly affected by CVE-2017-7483 we have added a patch to harden urxvt to avoid similar bugs in the future. boo1036456 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

APT3 Linked to Chinese Ministry of State Security

Researchers claim that APT3, widely believed to be a China-based threat actor, is directly connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security MSS. The allegations come from Recorded Future which released a report Wednesday that claims it has found conclusive ties that link APT3 with MSS, China’s...

My comments on Forrester’s “Vulnerability Management vendor landscape 2017”

A top consulting company, Forrester Research, recently published report "Vendor Landscape: Vulnerability Management, 2017". You can read for free by filling a small form on Tenable web site. What's interesting in this document? First of all, Josh Zelonis and co-authors presented their version of ...

Shodan’ Malware Hunter to Expose Command & Control Centers of Botnets

By Jahanzaib Hassan Recorded Future, a threat intelligence company together with Shodan, which is an internet search engine connecting services to internet devices, have created an online crawler which they call the Malware Hunter. What does it do? The Malware Hunter is a program that sends out...

Malware Hunter Crawls Internet Looking for RAT C2s

A new crawler released today by Shodan designed to find command and control servers has already unearthed 5,800 controllers for more than 10 remote access Trojan RAT families. The crawler, called Malware Hunter, poses as an infected computer beaconing out to an attacker’s server waiting for...

Malware Hunter — Shodan's new tool to find Malware C&C Servers

Rapidly growing, insecure internet-connected devices are becoming albatross around the necks of individuals and organizations with malware authors routinely hacking them to form botnets that can be further used as weapons in DDoS and other cyber attacks. But now finding malicious servers, hosted ...

Dan Geer: Cybersecurity, Humanity's Future "Conjoined"

Given the intertwinement of technology with communication, politics, economies and overall human progress, it seems to go hand-in-hand that cybersecurity must be elevated in parallel. Dan Geer, considered atop the food chain of security thinkers, said during last week’s Source Boston conference...

The 'Audience of You' at NAB

It's all about the "audience of you" as Akamai gears up for next week's 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas. With that phrase, we're talking about helping to deliver the best possible experiences for each and every OTT video viewer. It's not an easy thing to do, but we're demonstrating a host of new...

Low-Cost Ransomware Service Discovered

A new ransomware as a service RaaS called Karmen has been discovered by security researchers at Recorded Future. This service allows anyone, including novices, to set up an account and customize their own ransomware campaign. The Karmen RaaS costs $175 and lets buyers set ransom prices, determine...

future.museum.ru XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.future.museum.ru/lmp/link.asp?back=books/consept.htm=javascript:alert%28/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%29 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 30.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not...