This Week in Security News: Bank Robberies and Whaling

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, business leaders share their tips on keeping their companies safe, hackers stole from a Russian central bank, and Google reveals a new...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID32091: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on February 21, 2018

Medium Alert ID: 56894 First Published: 2018 February 21 20:02 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID32091 may contain the following files: Name |...

“Wire bank transfer” malware phishing scam hits SWIFT banking system

By Waqas Hackers are becoming persistent in phishing scams against banking and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: "Wire bank transfer" malware phishing scam hits SWIFT banking system...

Kotlin-based malicious apps penetrate Google market

An open-source programming language, Kotlin is a fully-supported official programming language for Android. Google boasts that Kotlin contains safety features in order to make apps "healthy by default." Many apps are already built with Kotlin, from the hottest startups to Fortune 500 companies...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID31795: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on January 24, 2018

Medium Alert ID: 56565 First Published: 2018 January 24 16:09 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID31795 may contain the following files: Name |...

January 4, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Scrabble” 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! January 4, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Ransomware: The Problem...

Newly Uncovered 'MoneyTaker' Hacker Group Stole Millions from U.S. & Russian Banks

Security researchers have uncovered a previously undetected group of Russian-speaking hackers that has silently been targeting Banks, financial institutions, and legal firms, primarily in the United States, UK, and Russia. Moscow-based security firm Group-IB published a 36-page report on Monday,...

Cybercriminals vs financial institutions in 2018: what to expect

Introduction – key events in 2017 2017 was a year of great changes in the world of cyberthreats facing financial organizations. Firstly, in 2017 we witnessed a continuation of cyberattacks targeting systems running SWIFT — a fundamental part of the world's financial ecosystem. Attackers were able...

Debian DSA-4044-1 : swauth - security update

A vulnerability has been discovered in swauth, an authentication system for Swift, a distributed virtual object store used in Openstack. The authentication token for an user is saved in clear text to the log file, which could enable an attacker with access to the logs to bypass the authentication...

OpenStack Swauth Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

OpenStack is a cloud platform management project developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in collaboration with Rackspace in the U.S. OpenStack Swauth is one of the licensing systems.OpenStack Swift is a cloud storage software for retrieving large amounts of data. A security...

Authentication flaw

An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift through 2.15.1. The Swift object store and proxy server are saving unhashed tokens retrieved from the Swauth middleware authentication mechanism to a log file as part of a GET URI. This allow...

PYSEC-2017-84

An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift through 2.15.1. The Swift object store and proxy server are saving unhashed tokens retrieved from the Swauth middleware authentication mechanism to a log file as part of a GET URI. This allow...

CVE-2017-16613

An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift through 2.15.1. The Swift object store and proxy server are saving unhashed tokens retrieved from the Swauth middleware authentication mechanism to a log file as part of a GET URI. This allow...

CVE-2017-16613

An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift through 2.15.1. The Swift object store and proxy server are saving unhashed tokens retrieved from the Swauth middleware authentication mechanism to a log file as part of a GET URI. This allow...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16613

An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift through 2.15.1. The Swift object store and proxy server are saving unhashed tokens retrieved from the Swauth middleware authentication mechanism to a log file as part of a GET URI. This allow...

CVE-2017-16613

An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift through 2.15.1. The Swift object store and proxy server are saving unhashed tokens retrieved from the Swauth middleware authentication mechanism to a log file as part of a GET URI. This allow...

CVE-2017-16613

An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift through 2.15.1. The Swift object store and proxy server are saving unhashed tokens retrieved from the Swauth middleware authentication mechanism to a log file as part of a GET URI. This allow...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4044-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 ifdescription...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID31194: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on November 3, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 55772 First Published: 2017 November 3 16:10 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID31194 may contain the following files: Name |...

About the security content of Xcode 9 - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...