Store manager admits SIM swapping his customers

A 42-year-old manager at an unnamed telecommunications company has admitted SIM swapping customers at his store. SIM swapping, also known as SIM jacking, is the act of illegally taking over a target’s cell phone number and re-routing it to a phone under the attackers control. Once an attacker has...

Ransomware and wiper signed with stolen certificates

Introduction On July 17, 2022, Albanian news outlets reported a massive cyberattack that affected Albanian government e-services. A few weeks later, it was revealed that the cyberattacks were part of a coordinated effort likely intended to cripple the countrys computer systems. On September 10,...

Microsoft Azure 'AutoWarp' Bug Could Have Let Attackers Access Customers' Accounts

Details have been disclosed about a now-addressed critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Azure Automation service that could have permitted unauthorized access to other Azure customer accounts and take over control. "This attack could mean full control over resources and data belonging to the...

CVE-2018-4878 case: for a Hong Kong Telecommunications Company website is intrusion investigations-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

! Earlier, a researchers found that a Hong Kong Telecommunications Company website hacking attack, 3 May 21, Morphisec laboratory on the site of attack to carry out the investigation, investigators eventually found that the telecommunications company of the Group's official website was hacked, th...

New Call to Regulate IoT Security By Design

A Washington, D.C. think tank whose mission is critical infrastructure security has joined the call for lawmakers to consider regulating the security of connected devices. In a report published this week, the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology pinned the blame for a rash of Mirai...

Vulnerability warning: the D-Link friends of the perbadanan Router the presence of a remote command injection vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently security researcher at D-Link friends of the perbadanan on the router discovered a serious security vulnerability, an attacker can remotely obtain device The maximum access to the Root, and hijacking DNS settings or on the device to execute arbitrary commands. As early as last 1 1 month,...

South Korean Data Breach Compromises 27 Million

A data breach in South Korea appears to have impacted as many as 27 million citizens, roughly 70 percent of the nation’s population. Authorities with the South Jeolla Provincial Police Agency announced late last week that it had apprehended a 24-year-old, known simply as Kim, in addition to 15...

Hughes Network Systems Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite terminal firmware contains multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Firmware developed by Hughes Network Systems used in a number of BGAN satellite terminals contains undocumented hardcoded login credentials CWE-798. Additionally, the firmware contains an insecure proprietary communications protocol, likely a debugging service, that allows unauthenticate...

Telecom Italia Cookie Handling vulnerability allows hackers to hijack email accounts

A cookie is a piece of data that is issued by a server in an HTTP response and stored for future use by the HTTP client. Quite simply, a cookie is a small text file that is stored by a browser on the user’s machine. Cookies are plain text; they contain no executable code. The client then...

Scripps Reporters Accused of Hacking Lifeline Data Breach

Investigative reporters for the Scripps news service have been threatened with legal action after informing a telecommunications company that confidential data on tens of thousands of applicants was available on the Internet. The reporters were said to be looking into companies participating in...

New Verizon Marketing Initiative May Violate Users' Privacy

Verizon has drawn the ire of its customers and privacy advocates this week because a new initiative launched by the telecom company may violate users’ privacy. A new marketing program dubbed Precision Market Insights extracts information about Verizon’s customers on Android and iOS platforms...