Airbus Data Takes Flight; and Billions of Credentials Dumped on Dark Web

French airplane and military aircraft behemoth Airbus SE has become the latest victim of a cyberattack leading to a data breach, with an incident detected on its “commercial aircraft business” information systems. It is only the latest high-profile data exposure to come to light in recent days, a...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Jan. 25

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discuss the biggest news from this week. That includes a rare “emergency directive” issued by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday, which warned that multiple government domains have been targeted by DNS hijacking attacks...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Jan. 18

Exposed personal data seemed to be the big trend this week, which was overshadowed by Troy Hunt’s discovery of a database of breached emails totaling 773 million unique addresses in a popular cloud service. Millions of sensitive files on a storage server belonging to the Oklahoma Department of...

Threatpost Poll: Can We Fix 2FA?

In the wake of the release of a penetration testing tool called Modlishka that shows how easy it is to bypass login protections for accounts protected by mainstream two-factor authentication 2FA, the tool’s author in his write-up asked, “is 2FA broken?” It’s a provocative question, so we asked...

Adobe Fixes Two Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws

Adobe on Thursday released unscheduled security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and MacOS. The updates fix two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2018-16011 and CVE-2018-19725. Successful exploitation of the flaws could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current...

Adobe December 2018 Security Update Fixes Reader, Acrobat

Adobe has patched 87 vulnerabilities for Acrobat and Reader in its December Patch Tuesday update, including a slew of critical flaws that would allow arbitrary code-execution. The scheduled update comes less than a week after Adobe released several out-of-band fixes for Flash Player, including a...

Sextortion Emails Force Payment via GandCrab Ransomware

An ongoing sextortion campaign targeting thousands around the United States infects victims with the GandCrab ransomware and demands $500 to decrypt their systems. Sextortion emails typically ask for money in order to keep silent about compromising adult websites that they supposedly looked at. B...

Podcast: Breaking Down the Magecart Threat (Part Two)

Threatpost editor Lindsey O’Donnell talks to RiskIQ’s threat researcher, Yonathan Klijnsma, about the varying groups under the Magecart umbrella, and the differing characteristics, targets and techniques of these growing number of groups. This is the second in a series of three podcasts featuring...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Nov. 23

With Thanksgiving this week and Cyber Monday right around the corner, Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals talk about the biggest holiday season-related cybersecurity stories of the week. . Download direct here...

Emoji Attack Can Kill Skype for Business Chat

A denial of service DoS vulnerability in the Skype for Business unified communications platform has been uncovered, which can be triggered by sending large numbers of emojis to the instant messaging client. According to the SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab, which discovered the flaw CVE-2018-8546,...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast for Nov. 9

Midterm elections aside, it has been a busy week in the infosec world. On Monday, the Pentagon suddenly started uploading malware samples from APTs and other nation-state sources to the website VirusTotal. On Wednesday, Cisco in an advisory revealed that it had “inadvertently” shipped an in-house...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Oct. 12

Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals discuss the top news of the week ended Oct. 12. The week started with a bang with a report that Google did not disclose a potential data breach in Google+, likely contributing to the tech giant’s decision to shut down the social networking...

Threatpost New Wrap Podcast For Oct. 5

Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell and Tom Spring break down the highlights on the heels of a week filled with cybersecurity news. Included in the podcast week news wrap, ending Oct. 5, are the Bloomberg report alleging that a China government-affiliated group slipped tiny microchips into Super Micro...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Sept. 7

Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tom Spring break down the biggest news from the week ending September 7, including a feature story on vulnerability disclosure and new fixes in Chrome and Firefox. Download the podcast directly at http://traffic.libsyn.com/digitalunderground/WEEKWRAP.mp3...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Aug. 31

The Threatpost team breaks down the biggest news for the week ending on August 31. Topics covered are a Microsoft Windows zero-day, Yahoo’s recent acknowledgement that it scans emails to target ads to a report that mobile app SDKs capture private data when an Android or iOS app crashes. Download...

Video: Bishop Fox on Device Threats and Layered Security

Threatpost talked to Christie Terrill, partner at Bishop Fox, about the top trends and security issues that were discussed at Black Hat USA in Las Vegas this month...

Microsoft Flaw Allows Full Multi-Factor Authentication Bypass

A vulnerability in Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services ADFS has been uncovered that would allow malicious actors to bypass multi-factor authentication MFA safeguards. Many organizations rely on ADFS to manage identities and resources across their entire enterprise, and ADFS functions...

Black Hat Exclusive Video: The IoT Security Threat Looms for Enterprises

IoT devices are everywhere – from connected smart-home gadgets to industrial IoT systems. And it’s not stopping anytime soon – consumer IoT spending is set to reach $62 billion in 2018, making it the fourth largest industry segment, according to market research firm IDC. Many of these IoT devices...

Black Hat USA 2018 Preview

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals break down the biggest trends to watch out for at Black Hat USA and DEF CON 2018, which both kick off this week in Las Vegas. There is much to watch out for, including a keynote from Google’s Director of Engineering Parisa Tabriz, as...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For July 27

Threatpost’s Tom Spring and Lindsey O’Donnell sit down to discuss the top breaking news from the week. Stories of importance include shipping giant COSCO being hit with a ransomware attack, a Senator requesting a government mandate to stop using Adobe Flash by August 2019, and Facebook’s outgoing...