Travelex Pays $2.3M in Bitcoin to Hackers Who Hijacked Network in January

Travelex has paid out $2.3 million in Bitcoin to hackers to regain access to its global network after a malware attack at the new year knocked the global currency exchange offline and crippled its business during the month of January. The move—reported by the Wall Street Journal—may seem...

Cloud Transformation Is The Biggest Opportunity To Fix Security

This overview builds on the recent report from Trend Micro Research on cloud-specific security gaps, which can be found here. Don’t be cloud-weary. Hear us out. Recently, a major tipping point was reached in the IT world when more than half of new IT spending was on cloud over non- cloud. So rath...

Principles of a Cloud Migration – From Step One to Done

Boiling the ocean with the subject, sous-vide deliciousness with the content. Cloud Migrations are happening every day. Analysts predict over 75% of mid-large enterprises will migrate a workload to the cloud by 2021 – but how can you make sure your workload is successful? There are not just facto...

it-visions.de Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1135958 Security Researcher Teamhash Helped patch 330 vulnerabilities Received 3 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 2 recommendations , a holder of 3 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting it-visions.de website and i...

Authenticating your call centre when everyone is remote

Some unique challenges present themselves as workforce's shift to remote working. One that is not likely top of the pile, but is an easy avenue for abuse is authentication. When I talk about authentication, I don’t mean how users logon or access their emails for example. What I mean is how you...

Nsauditor 3.2.0.0 - 'Name' Denial of Service (PoC)

Exploit Title: Nsauditor 3.2.0.0 - 'Name' Denial of Service PoC Discovery by: 0xMoHassan Date: 2020-04-04 Vendor Homepage: http://www.nsauditor.com Software Link: http://www.nsauditor.com/downloads/nsauditorsetup.exe Tested Version: 3.2.0.0 Vulnerability Type: Denial of Service DoS Local Tested o...

Nsauditor 3.2.0.0 - (Name) Denial of Service Exploit

Exploit Title: Nsauditor 3.2.0.0 - 'Name' Denial of Service PoC Discovery by: 0xMoHassan Date: 2020-04-04 Vendor Homepage: http://www.nsauditor.com Software Link: http://www.nsauditor.com/downloads/nsauditorsetup.exe Tested Version: 3.2.0.0 Vulnerability Type: Denial of Service DoS Local Tested o...

Seeing Book Shelves on Virtual Calls

I have a confession... for me, the best part of virtual calls, or seeing any reporter or commentator working for home, is being able to check out their book shelves. I never use computer video, because I want to preserve the world's bandwidth. That means I don't share what my book shelves look li...

WARNING: Hackers Install Secret Backdoor on Thousands of Microsoft SQL Servers

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a sustained malicious campaign dating back to May 2018 that targets Windows machines running MS-SQL servers to deploy backdoors and other kinds of malware, including multi-functional remote access tools RATs and cryptominers. Named "Vollgar" after the...

Key Findings from the 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report

The new 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report CDR released this week. Now in its seventh year, the annual report provides a look at how global cybersecurity professionals perceive threats and plan to defend against them. The CDR enables cybersecurity professionals to benchmark their company’s security...

Riding another wave of success for our multi-layered detection and response approach

The corporate endpoint is a constant battle between cybersecurity white hats and criminal attackers. According to one study from the Ponemon Institute, 68% of organizations were victims of an attack on the endpoint in 2019. The risks and costs associated with undetected threats are immeasurable...

It-novum OpenITCOCKPIT Encryption Issues Vulnerability

It-novum OpenITCOCKPIT is a set of open source system monitoring tools from Germany's It-novum. An encryption issue vulnerability exists in It-novum openITCOCKPIT versions prior to 3.7.3. The vulnerability stems from a network system or product that does not properly use the relevant cryptographi...

Microsoft Windows Type 1 Font Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (ADV200006)

Two remote code execution vulnerabilities exist in Microsoft Windows when the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library improperly handles a specially-crafted multi-master font - Adobe Type 1 PostScript format. There are multiple ways an attacker could exploit the vulnerability, such as convincing a use...

Defender Behavior in 2019

Security is a team sport, or at least it should be. Given the constant behavior evolution we see from attackers and the vast IT footprint attackers can target, IT and security teams clearly face an uphill battle. Whereas attackers only have to be right once to succeed, defenders must be right 100...

Surge in online traffic increases risk to businesses

Imperva Research Labs has been monitoring the data across our thousands of customers since the outbreak of COVID-19. In reviewing anonymized data from our CyberThreat Index, we see new risks and several initial security implications from this pandemic for our customers and global businesses. We...

What’s Coming in 2020: An RSA Recap

VMWare Carbon Black recently published our Outlook 2020 Threat Report largely fueled by the work of our amazing Threat Analysis Unit. Greg Foss @Heinzarelli and Andrew Costis @0x4143 did some in-depth research on Malware samples seen in 2019. As part of RSA, Greg and I had the chance to present o...

Type 1 Font Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft has become aware of limited targeted Windows 7 based attacks that could leverage un-patched vulnerabilities in the Adobe Type Manager Library, and is providing the following guidance to help reduce customer risk until the security update is released. We appreciate the efforts of our...

Preparing for Disruption with Good IT

As our colleagues, customers, and friends continue to adapt to the rapidly changing situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, we are facing a global challenge that is unprecedented in the age of technology. The most important thing during this time is the health and safety of our communities. In orde...

Coronavirus Poll Results: Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the globe and Americans are told to isolate from others, many organizations are sending employees home to work. While most respondents in a Threatpost poll this week said they feel prepared from a security standpoint for this transition, a fifth of them...

Coronavirus Poll Results: Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the globe and Americans are told to isolate from others, many organizations are sending employees home to work. While most respondents in a Threatpost poll this week said they feel prepared from a security standpoint for this transition, a fifth of them...