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Ask Me Anything – Celebrating The Fifth Anniversary Of My Monthly Threat Webinar
In July 2015, I did my first threat webinar. I had planned to do it on a monthly basis, and never imagined I would still be doing it five years later, but here I am, still creating monthly webinars. I still do. I started the webinar series to help people understand the different threats targeting...
How Thousands of Misplaced Emails Took Over This Engineer's Inbox
Kenton Varda gets dozens of messages a day from Spanish-speakers around the world, all thanks to a Gmail address he registered 16 years ago...
Speaking at security events
I don't claim to be an amazing speaker; I'm still in awe of great infosec speakers such as Mikko Hypponen, Charlie Miller, Mudge and many others. However, I do keep being invited back to speak at events, so I guess I'm doing something right. Sometimes it's a minor slot at a big event, but the...
Vietnamese Threat Actors APT32 Targeting Wuhan Government and Chinese Ministry of Emergency Management in Latest Example of COVID-19 Related Espionage
From at least January to April 2020, suspected Vietnamese actors APT32 carried out intrusion campaigns against Chinese targets that Mandiant Threat Intelligence believes was designed to collect intelligence on the COVID-19 crisis. Spear phishing messages were sent by the actor to China's Ministry...
Hackers Can Use Ultrasonic Waves to Secretly Control Voice Assistant Devices
Researchers have discovered a new means to target voice-controlled devices by propagating ultrasonic waves through solid materials in order to interact with and compromise them using inaudible voice commands without the victims' knowledge. Called "SurfingAttack," the attack leverages the unique...
Alexa, Siri, Google Smart Speakers Hacked Via Laser Beam
Researchers have discovered a new way to hack Alexa and Siri smart speakers merely by using a laser light beam. No physical access of the victims’ device, or owner interaction, is needed to launch the hack, which allows attackers to send voice assistants inaudible commands such as unlocking doors...
No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks
Researchers this week disclosed new ways that attackers can exploit Alexa and Google Home smart speakers to spy on users. The hacks, which rely on the abuse of “skills,” or apps for voice assistants, allow bad actors to eavesdrop on users and trick them into telling them their passwords over the...
IoT-Implant-Toolkit - Toolkit For Implant Attack Of IoT Devices
IoT-Implant-Toolkit is a framework of useful tools for malware implantation research of IoT devices. It is a toolkit consisted of essential software tools on firmware modification, serial port debugging, software analysis and stable spy clients. With an easy-to-use and extensible shell-like...
Hackers Can Turn Everyday Speakers Into Acoustic Cyberweapons
A security researcher has demonstrated how to force everyday commercial speakers to emit harmful sounds...
Register for #CBConnect19 in San Diego Using Code SOCIAL50 to Receive 50% Off
In two months, hundreds of security professionals will gather in San Diego for two days of discussion around the future of endpoint security at CB Connect 2019. The event will take place at Hotel Del Coronado June 4-5 with sweeping views of Coronado beach where attendees will hear from robust...
Observations from RSA Conference, 2019
Last week, the 2019 RSA Conference was held with typical energy and exuberance in San Francisco. One of the largest cybersecurity industry conferences, it had over 700 exhibiting vendors not including another 50 in their Early Stage Expo area and over 500 sessions covering a wide range of current...
Join Microsoft Security Response at the Product Security Operations forum at LocoMocoSec!
The MSRC is more than managing vulnerability reports, publishing Microsoft security updates, and defending the cloud. The MSRC is passionate about helping everyone improve internal engineering practices and supporting the defender community, and are excited to partner with Blackberry to host a...
Wallarm to Sponsor AppSec Cali
If you are a SecOps or DevOps professional on the west coast you can not miss the premier California application security event: AppSec California, January 22–25th in Santa Monica. Here are testimonials from the previous AppSec Cali events: “I'm looking forward to AppSecCali next week. Last year...
Soundtouch App Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Soundtouch App is a mobile setup software for music speakers. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Soundtouch App. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to execute malicious javascript code in the user context...
Thousands of Google Chromecast Devices Hijacked to Promote PewDiePie
A group of hackers has hijacked tens of thousands of Google's Chromecast streaming dongles, Google Home smart speakers and smart TVs with built-in Chromecast technology in recent weeks by exploiting a bug that's allegedly been ignored by Google for almost five years. The attackers, who go by...
A week in security (December 17 – 23)
Last week on Labs we looked at Fuchsia OS as a possible alternative for Android, explained all the reasons why cybercriminals want to hack your phone, discussed a flaw in Twitter form that may have been abused by nation states, gave you a Christmas tech scams roundup, revealed why many online...
A week in security (August 13 – August 19)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we talked about how Process Doppelgänging meets Process Hollowing in the Osiris dropper, provided hints, tips, and links for a safer school year, gave a recap of Black Hat USA 2018, offered some tips for a secure content management system, highlighted a silly...
8 everyday technologies that can make you vulnerable to cyberattacks
The technological advances of the modern world make for an exciting and convenient lifestyle. With each new development, from artificial intelligence to the Internet of Things, we make the mundane and tedious more manageable. The security vulnerabilities of the latest tech have been well...
Sonos Speakers Information Disclosure Vulnerability (Apr 2018) - Active Check
Sonos speakers are prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPEPREFIX = "cpe:/a:sonos:...
