Supporting COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts with Vaccine Edge

Global efforts to produce and distribute the COVID-19 vaccine continue to race ahead. But in many cases, that race is an uphill climb. Beyond the challenges in making enough of the vaccine, educating the public, and the logistics of distributing the doses, there is a new challenge. Bots. In recen...

USN-4680-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Description It was discovered that debugfs in the Linux kernel as used by blktrace contained a use-after-free in some situations. A privileged local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service syste...

Ukrainian Police Arrest Author of World's Largest Phishing Service U-Admin

Law enforcement officials in Ukraine, in coordination with authorities from the U.S. and Australia, last week shut down one of the world's largest phishing services that were used to attack financial institutions in 11 countries, causing tens of millions of dollars in losses. The Ukrainian attorn...

OSV-2021-315 Global-buffer-overflow in Gfx::decode_frame

OSS-Fuzz report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=30507 Crash type: Global-buffer-overflow READ 4 Crash state: Gfx::decodeframe Gfx::GIFImageDecoderPlugin::frame Gfx::GIFImageDecoderPlugin::bitmap...

CVE-2021-22161

In OpenWrt 19.07.x before 19.07.7, when IPv6 is used, a routing loop can occur that generates excessive network traffic between an affected device and its upstream ISP's router. This occurs when a link prefix route points to a point-to-point link, a destination IPv6 address belongs to the prefix...

OSV-2021-289 Global-buffer-overflow in vte_write_debug

OSS-Fuzz report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=30351 Crash type: Global-buffer-overflow READ 1 Crash state: vtewritedebug doaction parsedata...

OSV-2021-276 Global-buffer-overflow in mode_sense_page

OSS-Fuzz report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=30219 Crash type: Global-buffer-overflow READ 4 Crash state: modesensepage scsidiskcheckmodeselect modeselectpages...

Qualcomm Audio Input Validation Error Vulnerability

Qualcomm Audio is an audio device software from Qualcomm Incorporated USA. A security vulnerability exists in Qualcomm Audio where access to global control elements may be out of bounds due to a competitive condition...

Cleaning up after Emotet: the law enforcement file

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade and Jérôme Segura Emotet has been the most wanted malware for several years. The large botnet is responsible for sending millions of spam emails laced with malicious attachments. The once banking Trojan turned into loader was responsible for costly...

Hezbollah linked hackers hit companies in global malware attack

By Deeba Ahmed The APT group has developed a new version of Explosive malware RAT remote access trojan and stealthily hacking businesses worldwide. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hezbollah linked hackers hit companies in global malware attack...

Sustainability Requires Collaboration: Akamai's Growing Community and Supply Chain Initiatives

Akamai is committed to collaboration that inspires worldwide change. We know it's not enough to be environmentally conscious solely in our own business. To make a true impact on climate change, we need to use our unique position as a global corporation to encourage our partners to join us in taki...

Why operational resilience will be key in 2021, and how this impacts cybersecurity

The lessons we have learned during the past 12 months have demonstrated that the ability to respond to and bounce back from adversity in general, can impact the short-and long-term success of any organization. It can even dictate the leaders and laggards in any industry. When we take into...

Enhanced Security at the Edge with Imperva DNS Protection

Your website is the gateway to your business and the potential for disruption of your site or damage to your web infrastructure makes DNS security a serious consideration for organizations. The criticality of DNS Services for ensuring network connectivity and website availability make them a hot...

European Authorities Disrupt Emotet — World's Most Dangerous Malware

Law enforcement agencies from as many as eight countries dismantled the infrastructure of Emotet, a notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks over the past decade. The coordinated takedown of the botnet on Tuesday — dubbed "Operation...

Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 3: Investment and Innovation

This is Part 3 of a 3-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's authoritative DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management. Part 1 focused on Akamai's DNS platform and what sets it apart. Part 2...

Pow! Emotet’s down. Is it out?

In a coordinated action, multiple law enforcement agencies have seized control of the Emotet botnet. Agencies from eight countries worked together to deliver what they hope will be a decisive blow against one of the worlds most dangerous and sophisticated computer security threats. The Emotet...

Microsoft surpasses $10 billion in security business revenue, more than 40 percent year-over-year growth

I joined Microsoft a little more than six months ago—amid a global pandemic and a new norm of remote work, as well as one of the most rapidly evolving threat landscapes in history. We’ve witnessed more sophisticated attacks, like the recent SolarWinds incident, as well as an increase in attack...

World’s Most ‘Resilient Malware’ Botnet Emotet Taken Down

By Waqas Emotet malware botnet has been taken down by cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies after a joint global operation. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Worlds Most Resilient Malware Botnet Emotet Taken Down...

Cops Disrupt Emotet, the Internet's ‘Most Dangerous Malware’

A global operation has taken down the notorious botnet in a blow to cybercriminals worldwide...

International Action Targets Emotet Crimeware

Authorities across Europe on Tuesday said theyd seized control over Emotet, a prolific malware strain and cybercrime-as-service operation. Investigators say the action could help quarantine more than a million Microsoft Windows systems currently compromised with malware tied to Emotet infections...