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Email Sender Identity is Key to Solving the Phishing Crisis
Email is in crisis. Despite massive advancements in perimeter and endpoint defenses, email remains a cybersecurity weak link for many companies. Why? Email is at the heart of everything we do online. It’s an essential line of communication for one-on-one and group conversations, both...
UCSF Pays $1.14M After NetWalker Ransomware Attack
The University of California, San Francisco UCSF has paid a $1.14 million ransom to recover data related to “important” academic work. The data was encrypted after the NetWalker ransomware reportedly hit the UCSF medical school. The UCSF, which includes a medical school and a medical center UCSF...
jenbb99.work Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1207945
Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
Popular Techniques Used by Cybercriminals Amid COVID-19
Editor's Note: Gary Stevens, a technology writer, is posting as a guest author to carbonblack.com. Cybercriminals constantly leverage fear and confusion by launching cyberattacks during major world events. Such attacks are mostly carried out with social engineering campaigns using malicious email...
Work From Home Opens New Remote Insider Threats
Employees working from home face a new world of workplace challenges. With childcare facilities mostly closed, many are juggling crying babies or barking dogs, all while tending to job responsibilities. Under those conditions mistakes happen, like sending an email – with critical internal company...
Popular Techniques Used by Cybercriminals Amid COVID-19
Editor's Note: Gary Stevens, a technology writer, is posting as a guest author to carbonblack.com. Cybercriminals constantly leverage fear and confusion by launching cyberattacks during major world events. Such attacks are mostly carried out with social engineering campaigns using malicious email...
Remote Workers Pose New Security Risks
The sudden and massive shift to a work-from-home workforce has left millions of employees ill-prepared to handle the new cybersecurity challenges they face, a new study has found. Though many people had no previous work-at-home experience until this year, they were sent home to navigate the...
Modernizing the security operations center to better secure a remote workforce
The response to COVID-19 has required many security operations centers SOCs to rethink how they protect their organizations. With so many employees working remotely, IT groups are routing more traffic directly to cloud apps, rather than through the network. In this model, traditional network...
Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability in Student Work Management Information System of Zhengfang Software Co.
The positive student work management information system, making full use of the human resources of the student work management department, through informationization, digitization, networked office on the students' learning, life, thinking and other aspects of the comprehensive management, to sol...
Logic Flaw Vulnerability in Student Work Management Information System of Zhengfang Software Co.
The positive student work management information system, making full use of the human resources of the student work management department, through informationization, digitization, networked office on the students' learning, life, thinking and other aspects of the comprehensive management, to sol...
News Wrap: Malicious Chrome Extensions Removed, CIA 'Woefully Lax' Security Policies Bashed
For the week ended June 19, Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell Welch, Tom Spring and Tara Seals break down the top cybersecurity stories. This week’s top news stories include: Google removing 106 Chrome browser extensions from its Chrome Web Store in response to a report that they were being us...
Barracuda and Microsoft: Securing applications in public cloud
This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligence Security Association guest blog series. To learn more about MISA, go here. Barracuda Cloud Application Protection CAP platform features integrations with Microsoft Azure Active Directory Azure AD and Azure Security Center. A component of CAP,...
Inside Microsoft Threat Protection: Mapping attack chains from cloud to endpoint
The increasing pervasiveness of cloud services in today’s work environments, accelerated by a crisis that forced companies around the globe to shift to remote work, is significantly changing how defenders must monitor and protect organizations. Corporate data is spread across multiple...
SOC 2 Compliance During Covid-19 Times
A lot of IT Security Officers responsible for driving the SOC 2 certification in their companies are probably wondering how the switch to mostly remote workspaces will affect their SOC 2 landscape. I would say that there are two types of companies affected or not affected by the coronavirus:...
Adobe Patches 18 Critical Flaws in Out-Of-Band Update
Adobe patched 18 critical vulnerabilities Tuesday impacting key products Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Premiere Rush and Audition. The out-of-band fixes address vulnerabilities allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code, if bugs are exploited. In its security bulletin Adobe...
Shadow IT: Why It’s Still a Major Risk in Today’s Environments
Shadow IT is nothing new. Employees have long adopted software applications or cloud services without the knowledge or approval of their organization’s IT department, most often in search of easier ways to get their jobs done. People typically utilize unsanctioned apps not because they’re seeking...
A week in security (June 8 – 14)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked into nasty search hijackers that worried a lot of Chrome users; a list of considerations for MSPs when looking for an RMM platform; the complaint faced by ParetoLogic, the company that issues SpeedyPC, a product that claims to find and remove various PC...
11 security tips to help stay safe in the COVID-19 era
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our daily routines, the ways we work, and our reliance on technology. Many of us are now working remotely, students are attending classes virtually, and we’re relying more on social media and social networks to stay connected as we define what our new normal look...
Lock and Code S1Ep8: Securely working from home (WFH) with John Donovan and Adam Kujawa
This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to John Donovan, head of security at Malwarebytes, and Adam Kujawa, director of Malwarebtyes Labs, about securely working from home WFH. With shelter-in-pla...
The vulnerability of Thunderbolt device microcontrollers, related to the lack of protection at the “Work Camp” level, allows a intruder to gain direct access to the memory of computing devices to which Thunderbolt-enabled devices are connected.
The vulnerability of Thunderbolt device microcontrollers is related to the lack of protection at the “Work Camp” level. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain direct access to the memory of computing devices, to which Thunderbolt devices are connected...