ThreatList: Phishing Attacks Doubled in 2018

Phishing attempts more than doubled in 2018, as bad actors sought to trick victims into handing over their credentials. They used both old tricks – such as scams tied to current events – as well as other stealthy, fresher tactics. Researchers with Kaspersky Lab said in a Tuesday report that durin...

Spam and phishing in 2018

Numbers of the year The share of spam in mail traffic was 52.48%, which is 4.15 p.p. less than in 2017. The biggest source of spam this year was China 11.69%. 74.15% of spam emails were less than 2 KB in size. Malicious spam was detected most commonly with the Win32.CVE-2017-11882 verdict. The...

RSA Conference 2019: NIST's Privacy Framework Starts to Take Shape

Data privacy has been thrust into the limelight with the passage of the General Data Protection Regulation in Europe last year and a string of high-profile consumer privacy snafus. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has plans to help companies address data privacy with the...

RSA Conference 2019: Cryptographers' Panel Decries Adi Shamir's Visa Issues

SAN FRANCISCO – This year’s RSA Conference Cryptographers’ Panel started on a sour note when it was announced that longtime participant Adi Shamir, one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, would be absent because of visa issues with the U.S. Department of State. Shamir, who addressed the...

RSA Conference 2019: Microsoft, Google, Twitter on Federal Privacy Regs

SAN FRANCISCO – With the advent of General Data Protection Regulation in Europe and state measures like the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA of 2018 talk about a comprehensive U.S. privacy law has grown louder. However, some privacy advocates fear that any such federal legislation will be a...

Imperva Wins Awards for Best Database Security, Coolest Cloud Security Vendor

SC Magazine has long been one of the most respected names in cybersecurity journalism, and one that has written about Imperva’s security research and solutions many times. So we’re proud to announce that we’ve won the 2019 SC Award for Best Database Security solution at SC’s awards ceremony on...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for supportutils (openSUSE-SU-2019:0293-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

EU Cookie Compliance (GDPR Compliance) - Critical - Cross site scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2019-033

This module addresses the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR that came into effect 25th May 2018, and the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications from 2012. It provides a banner where you can gather consent from the user when the website stores cookies on their computer or...

openSUSE Security Update : supportutils (openSUSE-2019-293)

This update for supportutils fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-19640: Fixed an issue where users could kill arbitrary processes bsc1118463. - CVE-2018-19638: Fixed an issue where users could overwrite arbitrary log files bsc1118460. - CVE-2018-19639: Fixed a code...

Security update for supportutils (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for supportutils Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0293-1 Rating: important References: 1043311 1046681 1051797 1071545 1105849 1112461 1115245 1117776 1118460 1118462 1118463 1125609 1125666 Cross-References: CVE-2018-19637 CVE-2018-19638 CVE-2018-19639...

Max Schrems: lawyer, regulator, international man of privacy

Almost one decade ago, disparate efforts began in the European Union to change the way the world thinks about online privacy. One effort focused on legislation, pulling together lawmakers from 28 member-states to discuss, draft, and deploy a sweeping set of provisions that, today, has altered how...

SUSE-SU-2019:0480-1 Security update for supportutils

This update for supportutils fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-19640: Fixed an issue where users could kill arbitrary processes bsc1118463. - CVE-2018-19638: Fixed an issue where users could overwrite arbitrary log files bsc1118460. - CVE-2018-19639: Fixed a code...

This Week in Security News: Malware and Machine Learning

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about an infectious miner-malware and how malware can hide form AV Solutions. Also, understand how to use machine learning to detect...

Over 92 Million New Accounts Up for Sale from More Unreported Breaches

All these numbers…. "More than 5 billion records from 6,500 data breaches were exposed in 2018" — a report from Risk Based Security says. "More than 59,000 data breaches have been reported across the European since the GDPR came into force in 2018" — a report from DLA Piper says. …came from data...

Exposed: Instagram, OKCupid, Mumsnet All Face Data Concerns

It has once again been busy on the data privacy/exposure front as the week kicks off, with Instagram, dating site OKCupid and the UK’s powerhouse discussion site, Mumsnet, all making recent news. A report on GDPR breach notifications rounds out the latest. First up, Instagram users are apparently...

This Week in Security News: Consumer Data and Malware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn what security issues and critical threats will impact consumer data this year. Also, learn about a malicious Adobe app targeting macOS...

Airbus Data Takes Flight; and Billions of Credentials Dumped on Dark Web

French airplane and military aircraft behemoth Airbus SE has become the latest victim of a cyberattack leading to a data breach, with an incident detected on its “commercial aircraft business” information systems. It is only the latest high-profile data exposure to come to light in recent days, a...

Airbus Suffers Data Breach, Some Employees' Data Exposed

European airplane maker Airbus admitted yesterday a data breach of its "Commercial Aircraft business" information systems that allowed intruders to gain access to some of its employees' personal information. Though the company did not elaborate on the nature of the hack, it claimed that the...

2019 and Beyond: The (Expanded) RSAC Advisory Board Weighs in on What’s Next

Just when we thought we’d escaped 2018 without an attack on the scale of WannaCry, NotPetya or Equifax, we were struck by Marriott’s November news of a breach affecting 500 million guests and once again reminded that complacency is the enemy of cybersecurity. We were also reminded that predicting...

A week in security (January 21 – 27)

Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at Modlishka, the latest hurdle in two-factor authentication 2FA, the potential for abuse of push notifications, a malware-phishing combo by the name of CryTekk ransomware, and why we detect PUPs, but enforce the power of users' choice. We...