Locky Ransomware Distributed Via DOCM Attachments in Latest Email Campaigns

Throughout August, FireEye Labs has observed a few massive email campaigns distributing Locky ransomware. The campaigns have affected various industries, with the healthcare industry being hit the hardest based on our telemetry, as seen in Figure 1. Figure 1. Top 10 affected industries Numerous...

Locky Ransomware Distributed Via DOCM Attachments in Latest Email Campaigns

Throughout August, FireEye Labs has observed a few massive email campaigns distributing Locky ransomware. The campaigns have affected various industries, with the healthcare industry being hit the hardest based on our telemetry, as seen in Figure 1. Figure 1. Top 10 affected industries Numerous...

Someone is Spying on Researchers Behind VeraCrypt Security Audit

After TrueCrypt mysteriously discontinued itself, VeraCrypt became the most popular open source disk encryption software used by activists, journalists, and privacy conscious people. Due to the huge popularity of VeraCrypt, security researchers from the OSTIF The Open Source Technology Improvemen...

Misuse of Language: 'Cyber'

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Today’s contributors are Dave Dittrich and Katherine Carpenter. The terms “cyber war” and “cyber weapon” are thrown around casually, often with little thought to their...

Locky is Back Asking for Unpaid Debts

On June 21, 2016, FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence DTI identified an increase in JavaScript contained within spam emails. FireEye analysts determined the increase was the result of a new Locky ransomware spam campaign. As shown in Figure 1, Locky spam activity was uninterrupted until June 1,...

Acer Admits E-commerce Site Breached

Taiwanese electronics company Acer began sending letters to customers last week indicating that some of their sensitive financial information–credit card data included–may have been accessed over the last year or so. Customers’ names, addresses, card numbers, expiration dates, and three digit CVV...

Ubiquiti Network Gear Targeted By Worm

ISP equipment maker Ubiquiti Networks is fending off a stubborn worm targeting its networking equipment running outdated AirOS firmware. According to security experts, the worm is already being blamed for crippling networking gear in the Argentina, Brazil, Spain and the United States. Ubiquiti...

'Hacking Team' Loses License to Sell Surveillance Malware Outside Europe

Hacking Team – the infamous Italy-based spyware company that had more than 400 GB of its confidential data stolen last year – is facing another trouble. This time not from other hackers, but from its own government. Hacking Team is infamous for selling surveillance spyware to governments and...

German States: Germany Quiz - Dynamic Code Loading, External URLs, Unsafe deleting vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application German States: Germany Quiz published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Requests for Yahoo User Data Spiked After Paris Terror Attacks

Yahoo’s latest transparency report, published today, reflects a spike in government and law enforcement requests for user data following the Paris terrorist attacks of Nov. 13. The attacks resulted in the deaths of 130 people and injuries to more than 350 others; the situation remains fluid with...

FBI may have found a New Way to Unlock Shooter's iPhone without Apple

There's more coming to the high-profile Apple vs. FBI case. The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI might not need Apple's assistance to unlock iPhone 5C that belonged to San Bernardino shooter, Syed Rizwan Farook. If you have followed the San Bernardino case closely, you probably know everything...

COMODO Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: COMODO Subdomain XSS Vulnerability Google Dork: N/A Date: 2016/2/3 Exploit Author: RootByte Vendor Homepage: http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/ Software Link: N/A Version: N/A Tested on: Windows 10 / FireFox 44.0 CVE : N/A about Wikipedia: COMODO is a privately held group of...

Wikileak's Julian Assange Could Be Set Free On Friday by United Nation

The decision of the United Nations investigation into the Julian Assange case is set to be revealed and could order the release of Wikileaks founder on February 5. "BREAKING: UN set to announce decision on Assange's release on Friday,"BREAKING: UN set to announce decision on Assange's release on...

Dridex Botnet Resumes Spam Operations After the Holidays

FireEye Labs observed that Dridex operators were active during the holiday season. However, during the post-Christmas and New Year weeks, we observed a slowdown in their spam campaigns. Interestingly, their breaks were short. Over the past few weeks they have resumed operations and are building...

US releases Iranian Hacker as part of Prisoner Exchange Program

The United States has freed 4 Iranian nationals including one Hacker and reduced the sentences of 3 others in exchange for the release of 5 Americans formerly held by Iran as part of a prisoner swap or Prisoner Exchange Program. The Iranian citizens released from the United States custody through...

Another ISIS Hacker Killed by U.S Drone Strike in Syria

A British-educated businessman who later joined Islamic State ISIS militant group in Syria has been killed in a US drone strike. Siful Haque Sujan, a Bangladesh-born man, was killed on 10 December 2015 by a US drone strike near Raqqa, Syria. Sujan has been described as one of the ISIS's top...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20151208)

It was found that the x86 ISA Instruction Set Architecture is prone to a denial of service attack inside a virtualized environment in the form of an infinite loop in the microcode due to the way sequential delivering of benign exceptions such as AC alignment check exception and DB debug exception...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2015:2552)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detail...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2015:2552)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detail...

JBOSS found Java deserialization remote command execution vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, many articles on the jboss java deserialization vulnerability the article vibe in the network. So in the end is not as long as with jboss will the existence of this vulnerability? And this vulnerability in the end how much? What is deserialization vulnerability? In fact, the java...