CVE-2017-4946

The VMware V4H and V4PA desktop agents 6.x before 6.5.1 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged windows user escalating their privileges to SYSTEM. Recent assessments: ccondon-r7 at July 26, 2024 1:30pm UTC reported:...

December 29, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “2018” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! December 29, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Bitcoin concerns rising...

TRITON Malware Targeting Critical Infrastructure Could Cause Physical Damage

Security researchers have uncovered another nasty piece of malware designed specifically to target industrial control systems ICS with a potential to cause health and life-threatening accidents. Dubbed Triton, also known as Trisis, the ICS malware has been designed to target Triconex Safety...

Simple Banking Security Tip: Verbal Passwords

There was a time when I was content to let my bank authenticate me over the phone by asking for some personal identifiers SSN/DOB that are broadly for sale in the cybercrime underground. At some point, however, I decided this wasn't acceptable for institutions that held significant chunks of our...

October 30, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Hallow’s Eve” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 30, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: The black market economy...

2013 Yahoo Breach Affected All 3 Billion Accounts

A massive breach of Yahoo’s systems in 2013 impacted every account in existence at the time, the company said last night in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yahoo disclosed the breach last December when it revealed that it believed 1 billion accounts were compromised. Las...

CCleaner Backdoor Attack: A State-sponsored Espionage Campaign

By Waqas Infected CCleaner Software Attack that Affected 700,000 Customers is part This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CCleaner Backdoor Attack: A State-sponsored Espionage Campaign...

Why Is North Korea So Interested in Bitcoin?

In 2016 we began observing actors we believe to be North Korean utilizing their intrusion capabilities to conduct cyber crime, targeting banks and the global financial system. This marked a departure from previously observed activity of North Korean actors employing cyber espionage for traditiona...

Google Researcher Finds Link Between WannaCry Attacks and North Korea

So far, nobody had an idea that who was behind WannaCry ransomware attacks? But now there is a clue that lies in the code. Neel Mehta, a security researcher at Google, found evidence that suggests the WannaCry ransomware, that infected 300,000 machines in 150 countries over the weekend, is linked...

Yahoo Tells SEC Executives Failed to Act on Breach

Yahoo’s quarterly SEC filings have been the only window into the massive data breaches that have exposed more than 1.5 billion records in the past four years. This week, Yahoo’s Q4 2016 filing was made public, and the view got uglier. The company admitted to the SEC and its investors that its...

Yahoo Tells SEC It Knew About Data Breach in 2014

Yahoo fessed up in its latest SEC filing that it knew in 2014 that attackers were on its network and stole information from 500 million accounts. The breach was disclosed in September and Yahoo blamed state-sponsored attackers, a claim that was challenged by some experts who instead said a crimin...

Election Leaks Failed to Move Needle on Polls

The barrage of information leaks, state-sponsored espionage and hacktivism related to the U.S. presidential election has had a mixed bag of effects on the race and voter confidence. For the most part, attacks against organizations supporting both major political parties, extensive email leaks and...

Yahoo Challenged on Claims Breach Was State-Sponsored Attack

As challenges mount against Yahoo’s attribution of a massive 2014 data breach to state-sponsored hackers, CISO Bob Lord yesterday confirmed that a cache of 200 million Yahoo accounts marketed this summer in an underground forum is unrelated to the breach. Speaking at the Structure Security...

Congressional Leaders Demand Answers on Yahoo Breach

Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, along with a number of his Democratic congressional colleagues, has demanded answers from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer about what is now the biggest data breach in history. Leahy called the two years between the intrusion of Yahoo’s network and the discovery and disclosu...

Questions Mount Around Yahoo Breach

As Yahoo continues to investigate the biggest data breach in history, pressure is mounting on the company to admit when it knew about the attack, whether there was a delay in reporting it, and also about how it implements cryptography to secure data it’s responsible for. Security company Venafi...

Yahoo Confirms 500 Million Accounts Were Hacked by 'State Sponsored' Hackers

500 million accounts — that's half a Billion users! That's how many Yahoo accounts were compromised in a massive data breach dating back to 2014 by what was believed to be a "state sponsored" hacking group. Over a month ago, a hacker was found to be selling login information related to 200 millio...

500 Million Yahoo Accounts Stolen By State-Sponsored Hackers

Yahoo says it was the victim of state-sponsored hackers who stole information associated with 500 million accounts. Yahoo CISO Bob Lord said the attack happened on the company’s network in late 2014; he did not name the country responsible. “The account information may have included names, email...

Warning — Bitcoin Users Could Be Targeted by State-Sponsored Hackers

Another day, another bad news for Bitcoin users. A leading Bitcoin information site is warning users that an upcoming version of the Blockchain consolidation software and Bitcoin wallets could most likely be targeted by "state-sponsored attackers." Recently, one of the world's most popular...

Malware Dropper Built to Target European Energy Company

A malware dropper with designs on specific targets was found in a private underground forum and is likely the predecessor to the Furtim malware that was uncovered in May. Researchers at SentinelOne today published a report that says the dropper sample they investigated, which they’re calling SFG,...

Red Line Drawn: China Recalculates Its Use of Cyber Espionage

On Sept. 25, 2015, President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that neither government would “conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property” for an economic advantage. Some observers hailed the agreement as a game changer for U.S. and Chinese...