Exposed and vulnerable: Recent attacks highlight critical need to protect internet-exposed OT devices

Since late 2023, Microsoft has observed an increase in reports of attacks focusing on internet-exposed, poorly secured operational technology OT devices. Internet-exposed OT equipment in water and wastewater systems WWS in the US were targeted in multiple attacks over the past months by different...

ToddyCat exploits unknown vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange servers to targets entities in Europe and Asia

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary ToddyCat, an APT group is deploying web shells by exploiting an unknown vulnerability in the Microsoft Exchange Servers. They are initiating a multi-stage infection that aims at governmental bodies in Europe and...

Security Risks with Private 5G Networks in Manufacturing Part. 3

We can see signs of increased activity in areas of business that use 5G around the world. 5G technology will usher in new personal services through smartphones, and it will also play a large part in industry. The option of Private 5G lets private companies and local governments have their own...

Security Risks with Private 5G in Manufacturing Companies Part. 2

We can see signs of increased activity in areas of business that use 5G around the world. 5G technology will usher in new personal services through smartphones, and it will also play a large part in industry. The option of Private 5G lets private companies and local governments have their own...

Security Risks with Private 5G in Manufacturing Companies Part. 1

We can see signs of increased activity in areas of business that use 5G around the world. 5G technology will usher in new personal services through smartphones, and it will also play a large part in industry. The option of Private 5G lets private companies and local governments have their own...

Zero-Day Exploitation Increasingly Demonstrates Access to Money, Rather than Skill — Intelligence for Vulnerability Management, Part One

One of the critical strategic and tactical roles that cyber threat intelligence CTI plays is in the tracking, analysis, and prioritization of software vulnerabilities that could potentially put an organization’s data, employees and customers at risk. In this four-part blog series, FireEye Mandian...

FBI: Iranian Firm Stole Data In Massive Spear Phishing Campaign

The United States Department of Justice announced charges against nine Iranians accused of stealing private data from U.S. universities, private companies and U.S. government agencies. FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said in a statement that the state-sponsored hackers worked for more than four...

Ukraine Police Warns of New NotPetya-Style Large Scale CyberAttack

Remember NotPetya? The Ransomware that shut down thousands of businesses, organisations and banks in Ukraine as well as different parts of Europe in June this year. Now, Ukrainian government authorities are once again warning its citizens to brace themselves for next wave of "large-scale"...

Nation States Distancing Themselves from APTs

SAN FRANCISCO – Security researchers say a new trend in privateering is gaining traction among nation states, which are increasingly contracting with private companies to carry out state-sponsored attacks. Typically APT attacks have been the work of internal government spy apparatuses, but...

Hill Debates Course of Action on China Cyberespionage

Lawmakers and experts on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission today debated with and quizzed security and legal experts on the best course of action against cyberespionage attributed to China. The Senate committee heard pros and cons related to a number of possible scenarios...

Government, Industry Focusing on Issue of Resiliency

WASHINGTON–As things stand right now, the United States has no overarching national information security policy or centralized agency responsible for defending the government’s networks in the event of a serious cyberattack. There have been many pushes over the years to change that and put one...

Analyze Cryptographic Specifications: Cryptol

The Cryptol specification language was designed by Galois for the NSA’s Trusted Systems Research Group as a public standard for specifying cryptographic algorithms. A reference specification can serve as the formal documentation for a cryptographic module. Unlike current specification mechanisms,...

Experts Worry About Future of Critical Infrastructure Security

SAN FRANCISCO–The problem of critical infrastructure security has become a key issue in the last few years, as high-profile attacks such as Stuxnet and others have grabbed headlines and alerted politicians and others to the weaknesses facing these vital systems. It’s an issue that Eugene Kaspersk...

NSA Chief Says Today's Cyber Attacks Amount to 'Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History'

The general in charge of the National Security Agency on Monday said the lack of national cybersecurity leglislation is costing us big and amounting to what he believes is “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.” U.S. Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander urged politicians to stop stalling on approvi...

Dominican Republic Police arrested 6 Anonymous hackers

Dominican Republic Police arrested 6 Anonymous hackers Dominican Republic Police has arrested six hackers , Milton Corniell David Jimenez Zerohack, Juan Rafael Leonardo Acosta Nmap, Cristian de la Rosa Jose de los Santos Mot, Robert Reynoso Delgado Frank-Ostia linked to Anonymous and accused by t...

Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed

Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed Microsoft is to offer a real-time intelligence feed of botnet and e-crime data to public and private sector subscribers, according to security company Kaspersky. Currently, Microsoft is testing a real-time feed to distribute informatio...

Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) hacked

Intelligence and National Security Alliance INSA hacked On Wednesday, 48 hours after releasing a policy paper on cybersecurity, the top trade association for intelligence contractors got a first-hand lesson on the subject: they discovered that their website was hacked. Cryptome, a site affiliated...

Why the U.S. Is an Easy Mark for Hackers

In the wake of the attacks against Google, Adobe and other major high-tech companies, there was a lot of public shock and outrage that this kind of attack happened. But it was really just a small part of what’s been going on for years. In a conversation with Dennis Fisher, Tom Kellermann of Core...