Researchers Demonstrate Ransomware for IoT Devices That Targets IT and OT Networks

As ransomware infections have evolved from purely encrypting data to schemes such as double and triple extortion, a new attack vector is likely to set the stage for future campaigns. Called Ransomware for IoT or R4IoT by Forescout, it's a "novel, proof-of-concept ransomware that exploits an IoT...

“FudCo” Spam Empire Tied to Pakistani Software Firm

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled "The Manipulaters," the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. Six years later, a review of the social media...

Healthcare service faces test of willpower with Ransomware authors

Healthcare and ransomware are in the news in a big way. Data leaks are inevitable, but those are typically associated with accidents by the general public. Possibly the most malicious type of data spillage is when people compromising said data decide to do the spilling. It’s one thing to...

Meet critical infrastructure security compliance requirements with Microsoft 365

Critical infrastructure operators face a hostile cyber threat environment and a complex compliance landscape. Every operator of an industrial control system also operates an IT network to service its productivity needs. A supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system operator of a power...

General Overview of Vulnerability Management

In a world where most companies take nearly six months to detect a data breach, establishing a comprehensive and continuous process for identifying, classifying, mitigating and preventing security vulnerabilities within an organization can help prevent current cybersecurity challenges...

Knoxville Ransomware Attack Leads to IT Network Shutdown

The city of Knoxville, Tenn. is reeling from a ransomware attack that knocked the city’s network offline and prevented police officers from responding to non-life-threatening traffic crashes. The incident occurred Wednesday and shuttered systems until Thursday. Also impacted was the city’s intern...

U.S. Pipeline Disrupted by Ransomware Attack

A ransomware attack has hit a natural gas compression facility in the U.S., the feds have warned. The attack resulted in a two-day pipeline shutdown as the unnamed victim worked to bring systems back online from backups. The attackers were able penetrate the IT portion of the facility’s network,...

Remote Desktop Protocol Clients Rife with Remote Code-Execution Flaws

UPDATE LAS VEGAS — Multiple critical vulnerabilities in the commonly used Remote Desktop Protocol RDP would allow a malicious actor to achieve remote code-execution over a client’s computer. According to Check Point research released Tuesday at the CPX360 event in Las Vegas, both open-source and...

Stuxnet virus also infected Chevron's IT network

Stuxnet, a sophisticated computer virus created by the United States and Israel, to spy on and attack Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities in Natanz also infected Chevron 's network in 2010, immediately after it spread into the wild. This Government created virus Now Infecting Corporations also...

FTC Sues Wyndham Over Breaches Linked to $10m In Fraud

UPDATE: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined Wyndham Hotels for a string of data breaches that resulted in information on hundreds of thousands of customers being lost to cyber criminals. An FTC complaint, filed on June 26, 2012, asks for “permanent injunctive relief” against Wyndham for...

Italy's Police IT network vitrociset.it Database Hacked and Leaked by #Antisec

Italy's Police IT network vitrociset.it Database Hacked and Leaked by Antisec After Hack of Italy's Police IT network, Anonymous Hackers Just now Release the Database of vitrociset.it via a pastebin link on Twitter. The Leak include the Administrator's Password and 100's of other users Login...

Italy's Police IT network vitrociset.it Database Hacked and Leaked by #Antisec

Italy's Police IT network vitrociset.it Database Hacked and Leaked by Antisec After Hack of Italy's Police IT network, Anonymous Hackers Just now Release the Database of vitrociset.it via a pastebin link on Twitter. The Leak include the Administrator's Password and 100's of other users Login...

Vulnerability Centreon IT & Network Monitoring v2.1.5

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Centreon IT Network Monitoring 2.1.5 - SQL Injection

Centreon IT Network Monitoring 2.1.5 - SQL Injection !/usr/bin/perl //--------PoC---------// Title : Centreon IT & Network Monitoring v2.1.5 - Injection SQL Version : 2.1.5 Author : Jonathan Salwan [email protected] Vuln sql injection http://localhost/centreon/main.php?p=201&hostid=-1%20SQL...

Centreon IT & Network Monitoring 2.1.5 - SQL Injection

!/usr/bin/perl //--------PoC---------// Title : Centreon IT & Network Monitoring v2.1.5 - Injection SQL Version : 2.1.5 Author : Jonathan Salwan [email protected] Vuln sql injection http://localhost/centreon/main.php?p=201&hostid=-1%20SQL Injection&o=p&min=1...