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Russian admin of cybercrime marketplace Deer.io jailed in US
By Deeba Ahmed Kirill Victorovich Firsov, a Russian Citizen has been jailed for 30 months in US prison for running popular cybercrime marketplace Deer.io. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian admin of cybercrime marketplace Deer.io jailed in US...
Why FIDO2 Is the Answer to Better Security
A groundbreaking increase in security incidents is affecting governments around the world. In light of this, the United States issued a formal order to implement a robust set of security measures designed to improve the security of federal systems...
Pega Infinity patches authentication vulnerability
Security researchers came across a Pega Infinity vulnerability through participation in Apple’s bug bounty program, after focusing on vendors that supplied technology to Apple. By using Burp Suite—an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications—the security researchers...
Is 85% of US Critical Infrastructure in Private Hands?
Most US critical infrastructure is run by private corporations. This has major security implications, because its putting a random power company in -- say -- Ohio -- up against the Russian cybercommand, which isnt a fair fight. When this problem is discussed, people regularly quote the statistic...
This Week in Security News May 14, 2021
May Patch Tuesday Offers Relative Respite and What We Know About DarkSide Ransomware and the US Pipeline Attack...
New US Executive Order on Cybersecurity
President Biden signed an executive order to improve government cybersecurity, setting new security standards for software sold to the federal government. For the first time, the United States will require all software purchased by the federal government to meet, within six months, a series of ne...
What We Know About the DarkSide Ransomware and the US Pipeline Attack
Trend Micro Research found dozens of DarkSide ransomware samples in the wild and investigated how the ransomware group operates and what organizations it typically targets...
Ransomware Shuts Down US Pipeline
This is a major story: a probably Russian cybercrime group called DarkSide shut down the Colonial Pipeline in a ransomware attack. The pipeline supplies much of the East Coast. This is the new and improved ransomware attack: the hackers stole nearly 100 gig of data, and are threatening to publish...
Major ransomware attack cripples largest gas pipeline in the US
By Habiba Rashid A massive ransomware attack on one of the largest gas pipelines in the US, Colonial Pipeline, led it to be shut down on Friday. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Major ransomware attack cripples largest gas pipeline in the US...
2021. The age of the super vulnerability?
I don’t know about you, but to me it seems that every week we are seeing another vulnerability that not only grants significant access to the vulnerable system but also more widely internally. This last week we have seen the latest round of Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities. The April 2021 updat...
U.S. Dept Of Defense: Reflected XSS at www.███████ at /██████████ via the ████████ parameter
Description: The www.████████ site is using ████, which is vulnerable to reflected XSS in the /█████ component via the █████████ parameter. References https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-14651/ https://docs.wso2.com/display/Security/Security+Advisory+WSO2-2017-0265 Impact An attacker can caus...
Deepfakes were going to change everything. And then they didn’t
For much of 2020, the most visible conversation about the US election and tech was related to deepfakes images or videos where the subject is replaced by another likeness. They could “destroy democracy” generally, and influence the US election in ways we couldn’t possibly imagine. People talked...
Did Someone at the Commerce Dept. Find a SolarWinds Backdoor in Aug. 2020?
On Aug. 13, 2020, someone uploaded a suspected malicious file to VirusTotal, a service that scans submitted files against more than five dozen antivirus and security products. Last month, Microsoft and FireEye identified that file as a newly-discovered fourth malware backdoor used in the sprawlin...
US Sanctions on Russia Rewrite Cyberespionage's Rules
The US has sent a loud message to Moscow—though what it's saying isn’t exactly clear...
SolarWinds Hack – US officially Blames Russian Intel Agency Hackers
By Waqas The US has also revealed that 6 Russian technology firms were involved in developing tools that played a vital role in the SolarWinds hack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SolarWinds Hack - US officially Blames Russian Intel Agency Hackers...
US Sanctions Russia and Expels 10 Diplomats Over SolarWinds Cyberattack
The U.S. and U.K. on Thursday formally attributed the supply chain attack of IT infrastructure management company SolarWinds with "high confidence" to government operatives working for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service SVR. "Russia's pattern of malign behaviour around the world – whether in...
The Biggest Security Threats to the US Are the Hardest to Define
In a Senate briefing, the heads of the major intelligence agencies warned the public about dangers that offer no easy solutions...
FBI accessing computers across US to remove malicious web shells
By Deeba Ahmed FBI is Accessing Computers Across the Us to Prevent Hafnium from Exploiting MS Exchange Server Vulnerabilities - All without telling owners. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI accessing computers across US to remove malicious web shells...
The FBI Is Now Securing Networks Without Their Owners’ Permission
In January, we learned about a Chinese espionage campaign that exploited four zero-days in Microsoft Exchange. One of the characteristics of the campaign, in the later days when the Chinese probably realized that the vulnerabilities would soon be fixed, was to install a web shell in compromised...
Detecting the "Next" SolarWinds-Style Cyber Attack
The SolarWinds attack, which succeeded by utilizing the sunburst malware, shocked the cyber-security industry. This attack achieved persistence and was able to evade internal systems long enough to gain access to the source code of the victim. Because of the far-reaching SolarWinds deployments, t...