Five Common Myths about Ransom DoS Attacks

Did you know that 86% of organizations surveyed in CyberEdge’s Cyberthreat Defense Report this year were compromised by cyberattacks? Since the first known incident in 1989, ransom DoS attacks have become increasingly sophisticated over time. If you are not well versed on the potential threats th...

WildPressure APT Emerges With New Malware Targeting Windows and macOS

A malicious campaign that has set its sights on industrial-related entities in the Middle East since 2019 has resurfaced with an upgraded malware toolset to strike both Windows and macOS operating systems, symbolizing an expansion in both its targets and its strategy around distributing threats...

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches ACI Mode Link Layer Discovery Protocol Port DoS (cisco-sa-apic-lldap-dos-WerV9CFj)

According to its self-reported version, Cisco NX-OS Software is affected by a denial of service DoS vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in the Link Layer Discovery Protocol LLDP due to incorrect processing of LLDP on packets on an SFP interface. An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker can explo...

Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure 4.6 Hotfix 2 (4.6.0-213)

This update provides stability fixes for the storage, Backup Gateway and object storage services. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-44694 A stability fix for the storage service. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-44859 A stability fix for the Backup Gateway service. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-44677 Complete multipart...

Threat Source newsletter (July 1, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. There's been a lot of talk recently around how to address America's infrastructure cybersecurity. After attacks like Colonial Pipeline and JBS, everyone across the public and private sectors are wondering what... This is only the...

Indexsinas SMB Worm Campaign Infests Whole Enterprises

The Indexsinas SMB worm is on the hunt for vulnerable environments to self-propagate into, researchers warned – with a particular focus on the healthcare, hospitality, education and telecommunications sectors. Its end goal is to drop cryptominers on compromised machines. Indexsinas, aka...

Domain, server of DoubleVPN used by ransomware gangs seized

By Deeba Ahmed US, Canada, and European authorities took part in the operation which ended up seizing cybercriminals' access to and infrastructure of DoubleVPN. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Domain, server of DoubleVPN used by ransomware gangs seized...

Users Clueless About Cybersecurity Risks: Study

Organizations are facing yet another unprecedented threat to their cybersecurity now that employees are headed back into offices with their personal devices, lax security hygiene and no clue about some of the most catastrophic attacks in history, such as the Colonial Pipeline shutdown. A new surv...

CISA Begins Cataloging Bad Practices that Increase Cyber Risk

In a blog post by Executive Assistant Director EAD Eric Goldstein, CISA announced the creation of a catalog to document bad cybersecurity practices that are exceptionally risky for any organization and especially dangerous for those supporting designated Critical Infrastructure or National Critic...

Lil’ skimmer, the Magecart impersonator

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura A very common practice among criminals consists of mimicking legitimate infrastructure when registering new domain names. This is very true for Magecart threat actors who love to impersonate Google, jQuery and many other popular brands. In this post we...

Virtuozzo ReadyKernel patch 129.0 for Virtuozzo Hybrid Server 7.0, 7.5 and Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.6

The cumulative Virtuozzo ReadyKernel patch was updated with stability fixes. The patch applies to all supported kernels of Virtuozzo Hybrid Server 7 and Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure. Vulnerability id: PSBM-130317 3.10.0-1062.4.2.vz7.116.7 to 3.10.0-1127.18.2.vz7.163.46 e2fsck considered the fi...

My Book Live Users Wake Up to Wiped Devices

If you haven’t already, stop reading and go yank your My Book Live storage device offline, lest you join the ranks of those who woke up on Thursday to find that years of data had been wiped clean on devices around the world. Western Digital’s My Book storage device is designed for consumers and...

What is Penetration Testing❓ Definition, Stages, Techniques, Pros and Cons

The general concept is that penetration testing, frequently known as upright hacking, separates network security weaknesses by mimicking endeavors to penetrate protections. If it’s anything but, a real aggressor may exploit similar imperfections. Pen testing may manage a creation system or one...

Talos Takes Ep. #58: How to approach the partnerships it will take to defend critical infrastructure

By Jon Munshaw. With major cyber attacks in recent years against major U.S. critical infrastructure suppliers like Norsk Hydro and Colonial Pipeline, we’re in a new world of CI cybersecurity. New threats require new approaches to defense. And in the U.S., this is likely going to include... This i...

Long-awaited changes to the nation's cybersecurity infrastructure become reality

There is a lot of buzz in the biz about the ripple effects of President Bidens "Executive Order EO on Improving the Nations Cybersecurity," which comes on the heels of the Colonial Pipeline hack. The pipeline, which delivers about 45% of the fuel used on the Eastern Seaboard, was shut down after ...

CVE-2021-24001

A compromised content process could have performed session history manipulations it should not have been able to due to testing infrastructure that was not restricted to testing-only configurations. This vulnerability affects Firefox 88...

CVE-2021-24001

A compromised content process could have performed session history manipulations it should not have been able to due to testing infrastructure that was not restricted to testing-only configurations. This vulnerability affects Firefox 88...

CVE-2021-24001

A compromised content process could have performed session history manipulations it should not have been able to due to testing infrastructure that was not restricted to testing-only configurations. This vulnerability affects Firefox 88...

CVE-2021-24001

A compromised content process could have performed session history manipulations it should not have been able to due to testing infrastructure that was not restricted to testing-only configurations. This vulnerability affects Firefox 88...

CVE-2021-24001

A compromised content process could have performed session history manipulations it should not have been able to due to testing infrastructure that was not restricted to testing-only configurations. This vulnerability affects Firefox 88...