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Cybersecurity Webinar — SolarWinds Sunburst: The Big Picture
The SolarWinds Sunburst attack has been in the headlines since it was first discovered in December 2020. As the so-called layers of the onion are peeled back, additional information regarding how the vulnerability was exploited, who was behind the attack, who is to blame for the attack, and the...
SolarWinds Hack — New Evidence Suggests Potential Links to Chinese Hackers
A malicious web shell deployed on Windows systems by leveraging a previously undisclosed zero-day in SolarWinds' Orion network monitoring software may have been the work of a possible Chinese threat group. In a report published by Secureworks on Monday, the cybersecurity firm attributed the...
SolarWinds Hack — New Evidence Suggests Potential Links to Chinese Hackers
A malicious web shell deployed on Windows systems by leveraging a previously undisclosed zero-day in SolarWinds' Orion network monitoring software may have been the work of a possible Chinese threat group. In a report published by Secureworks on Monday, the cybersecurity firm attributed the...
Microsoft Exchange Hackers Also Breached European Banking Authority
The European Banking Authority EBA on Sunday said it had been a victim of a cyberattack targeting its Microsoft Exchange Servers, forcing it to temporarily take its email systems offline as a precautionary measure. "As the vulnerability is related to the EBA's email servers, access to personal da...
Microsoft Exchange Hackers Also Breached European Banking Authority
The European Banking Authority EBA on Sunday said it had been a victim of a cyberattack targeting its Microsoft Exchange Servers, forcing it to temporarily take its email systems offline as a precautionary measure. "As the vulnerability is related to the EBA's email servers, access to personal da...
Apple Issues Patch for Remote Hacking Bug Affecting Billions of its Devices
Apple has released out-of-band patches for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari web browser to address a security flaw that could allow attackers to run arbitrary code on devices via malicious web content. Tracked as CVE-2021-1844 , the vulnerability was discovered and reported to the company by Cléme...
Apple Issues Patch for Remote Hacking Bug Affecting Billions of its Devices
Apple has released out-of-band patches for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari web browser to address a security flaw that could allow attackers to run arbitrary code on devices via malicious web content. Tracked as CVE-2021-1844, the vulnerability was discovered and reported to the company by Clémen...
Iranian Hackers Using Remote Utilities Software to Spy On Its Targets
Hackers with suspected ties to Iran are actively targeting academia, government agencies, and tourism entities in the Middle East and neighboring regions as part of an espionage campaign aimed at data theft. Dubbed "Earth Vetala" by Trend Micro, the latest finding expands on previous research...
Iranian Hackers Using Remote Utilities Software to Spy On Its Targets
Hackers with suspected ties to Iran are actively targeting academia, government agencies, and tourism entities in the Middle East and neighboring regions as part of an espionage campaign aimed at data theft. Dubbed "Earth Vetala" by Trend Micro, the latest finding expands on previous research...
Malware Can Exploit New Flaw in Intel CPUs to Launch Side-Channel Attacks
A new research has yielded yet another means to pilfer sensitive data by exploiting what's the first "on-chip, cross-core" side-channel attack targeting the ring interconnect used in Intel Coffee Lake and Skylake processors. Published by a group of academics from the University of Illinois at...
Malware Can Exploit New Flaw in Intel CPUs to Launch Side-Channel Attacks
A new research has yielded yet another means to pilfer sensitive data by exploiting what's the first "on-chip, cross-core" side-channel attack targeting the ring interconnect used in Intel Coffee Lake and Skylake processors. Published by a group of academics from the University of Illinois at...
Microsoft Exchange Cyber Attack — What Do We Know So Far?
Microsoft on Friday warned of active attacks exploiting unpatched Exchange Servers carried out by multiple threat actors, as the hacking campaign is believed to have infected tens of thousands of businesses, government entities in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. The company said "it continues to see...
Microsoft Exchange Cyber Attack — What Do We Know So Far?
Microsoft on Friday warned of active attacks exploiting unpatched Exchange Servers carried out by multiple threat actors, as the hacking campaign is believed to have infected tens of thousands of businesses, government entities in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. The company said "it continues to see...
Bug in Apple's Find My Feature Could've Exposed Users' Location Histories
Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed two distinct design and implementation flaws in Apple's crowdsourced Bluetooth location tracking system that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to the location history of the past seven days, thereby deanonymizing user...
Bug in Apple's Find My Feature Could've Exposed Users' Location Histories
Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed two distinct design and implementation flaws in Apple's crowdsourced Bluetooth location tracking system that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to the location history of the past seven days, thereby deanonymizing user...
Google Cloud Certifications — Get Prep Courses and Practice Tests at 95% Discount
As cloud computing continues to grow, Google Cloud is quickly becoming one of the most popular solutions. However, relatively few engineers know this platform well. This leaves the door open for aspiring IT professionals who take the official exams. The Google Cloud Certifications Practice Tests ...
Google Cloud Certifications — Get Prep Courses and Practice Tests at 95% Discount
As cloud computing continues to grow, Google Cloud is quickly becoming one of the most popular solutions. However, relatively few engineers know this platform well. This leaves the door open for aspiring IT professionals who take the official exams. The Google Cloud Certifications Practice Tests ...
Mazafaka — Elite Hacking and Cybercrime Forum — Got Hacked!
In what's a case of hackers getting hacked, a prominent underground online criminal forum by the name of Maza has been compromised by unknown attackers, making it the fourth forum to have been breached since the start of the year. The intrusion is said to have occurred on March 3, with informatio...
Mazafaka — Elite Hacking and Cybercrime Forum — Got Hacked!
In what's a case of hackers getting hacked, a prominent underground online criminal forum by the name of Maza has been compromised by unknown attackers, making it the fourth forum to have been breached since the start of the year. The intrusion is said to have occurred on March 3, with informatio...
Researchers Find 3 New Malware Strains Used by SolarWinds Hackers
FireEye and Microsoft on Thursday said they discovered three more malware strains in connection with the SolarWinds supply-chain attack, including a "sophisticated second-stage backdoor," as the investigation into the sprawling espionage campaign continues to yield fresh clues about the threat...
Researchers Find 3 New Malware Strains Used by SolarWinds Hackers
FireEye and Microsoft on Thursday said they discovered three more malware strains in connection with the SolarWinds supply-chain attack, including a "sophisticated second-stage backdoor," as the investigation into the sprawling espionage campaign continues to yield fresh clues about the threat...
Google Will Use 'FLoC' for Ad Targeting Once 3rd-Party Cookies Are Dead
Signaling a major shift to its ads-driven business model, Google on Wednesday unequivocally stated it would not build alternate identifiers or tools to track users across multiple websites once it begins phasing out third-party tracking cookies from its Chrome browser by early 2022. "Instead, our...
Google Will Use 'FLoC' for Ad Targeting Once 3rd-Party Cookies Are Dead
Signaling a major shift to its ads-driven business model, Google on Wednesday unequivocally stated it would not build alternate identifiers or tools to track users across multiple websites once it begins phasing out third-party tracking cookies from its Chrome browser by early 2022. "Instead, our...
Extortion Gang Breaches Cybersecurity Firm Qualys Using Accellion Exploit
Enterprise cloud security firm Qualys has become the latest victim to join a long list of entities to have suffered a data breach after zero-day vulnerabilities in its Accellion File Transfer Appliance FTA server were exploited to steal sensitive business documents. As proof of access to the data...
Extortion Gang Breaches Cybersecurity Firm Qualys Using Accellion Exploit
Enterprise cloud security firm Qualys has become the latest victim to join a long list of entities to have suffered a data breach after zero-day vulnerabilities in its Accellion File Transfer Appliance FTA server were exploited to steal sensitive business documents. As proof of access to the data...
CISA Issues Emergency Directive on In-the-Wild Microsoft Exchange Flaws
Following Microsoft's release of out-of-band patches to address multiple zero-day flaws in on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has issued an emergency directive warning of "active exploitation" of the vulnerabilities. T...
CISA Issues Emergency Directive on In-the-Wild Microsoft Exchange Flaws
Following Microsoft's release of out-of-band patches to address multiple zero-day flaws in on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has issued an emergency directive warning of "active exploitation" of the vulnerabilities. T...
Hackers Now Hiding ObliqueRAT Payload in Images to Evade Detection
Cybercriminals are now deploying remote access Trojans RATs under the guise of seemingly innocuous images hosted on infected websites, once again highlighting how threat actors quickly change tactics when their attack methods are discovered and exposed publicly. New research released by Cisco Tal...
Hackers Now Hiding ObliqueRAT Payload in Images to Evade Detection
Cybercriminals are now deploying remote access Trojans RATs under the guise of seemingly innocuous images hosted on infected websites, once again highlighting how threat actors quickly change tactics when their attack methods are discovered and exposed publicly. New research released by Cisco Tal...
Replacing EDR/NGAV with Autonomous XDR Makes a Big Difference for Small Security Teams
The attack surface is virtually expanding before our eyes. Protecting assets across multiple locations, with multiple solutions from different vendors, has become a daily concern for CISOs globally. In a new e-book recently published download here, CISOs with small security teams talk about the...
Replacing EDR/NGAV with Autonomous XDR Makes a Big Difference for Small Security Teams
The attack surface is virtually expanding before our eyes. Protecting assets across multiple locations, with multiple solutions from different vendors, has become a daily concern for CISOs globally. In a new e-book recently published download here, CISOs with small security teams talk about the...
A $50,000 Bug Could've Allowed Hackers Access Any Microsoft Account
Microsoft has awarded an independent security researcher $50,000 as part of its bug bounty program for reporting a flaw that could have allowed a malicious actor to hijack users' accounts without their knowledge. Reported by Laxman Muthiyah, the vulnerability aims to brute-force the seven-digit...
A $50,000 Bug Could've Allowed Hackers Access Any Microsoft Account
Microsoft has awarded an independent security researcher $50,000 as part of its bug bounty program for reporting a flaw that could have allowed a malicious actor to hijack users' accounts without their knowledge. Reported by Laxman Muthiyah, the vulnerability aims to brute-force the seven-digit...
URGENT — 4 Actively Exploited 0-Day Flaws Found in Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft has released emergency patches to address four previously undisclosed security flaws in Exchange Server that it says are being actively exploited by a new Chinese state-sponsored threat actor with the goal of perpetrating data theft. Describing the attacks as "limited and targeted,"...
URGENT — 4 Actively Exploited 0-Day Flaws Found in Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft has released emergency patches to address four previously undisclosed security flaws in Exchange Server that it says are being actively exploited by a new Chinese state-sponsored threat actor with the goal of perpetrating data theft. Describing the attacks as "limited and targeted,"...
New Chrome 0-day Bug Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser ASAP!
Exactly a month after patching an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome, Google today rolled out fixes for yet another zero-day vulnerability in the world's most popular web browser that it says is being abused in the wild. Chrome 89.0.4389.72, released by the search giant for Windows, Mac,...
New Chrome 0-day Bug Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser ASAP!
Exactly a month after patching an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome, Google today rolled out fixes for yet another zero-day vulnerability in the world's most popular web browser that it says is being abused in the wild. Chrome 89.0.4389.72, released by the search giant for Windows, Mac,...
Researchers Unearth Links Between SunCrypt and QNAPCrypt Ransomware
SunCrypt, a ransomware strain that went on to infect several targets last year, may be an updated version of the QNAPCrypt ransomware, which targeted Linux-based file storage systems, according to new research. "While the two ransomware families are operated by distinct different threat actors on...
Researchers Unearth Links Between SunCrypt and QNAPCrypt Ransomware
SunCrypt, a ransomware strain that went on to infect several targets last year, may be an updated version of the QNAPCrypt ransomware, which targeted Linux-based file storage systems, according to new research. "While the two ransomware families are operated by distinct different threat actors on...
New 'unc0ver' Tool Can Jailbreak All iPhone Models Running iOS 11.0 - 14.3
A popular jailbreaking tool called "unc0ver" has been updated to support iOS 14.3 and earlier releases, thereby making it possible to unlock almost every single iPhone model using a vulnerability that Apple in January disclosed was actively exploited in the wild. The latest release, dubbed unc0ve...
New 'unc0ver' Tool Can Jailbreak All iPhone Models Running iOS 11.0 - 14.3
A popular jailbreaking tool called "unc0ver" has been updated to support iOS 14.3 and earlier releases, thereby making it possible to unlock almost every single iPhone model using a vulnerability that Apple in January disclosed was actively exploited in the wild. The latest release, dubbed unc0ve...
Gootkit RAT Using SEO to Distribute Malware Through Compromised Sites
A framework notorious for delivering a banking Trojan has received a facelift to deploy a wider range of malware, including ransomware payloads. "The Gootkit malware family has been around more than half a decade – a mature Trojan with functionality centered around banking credential theft," Soph...
Gootkit RAT Using SEO to Distribute Malware Through Compromised Sites
A framework notorious for delivering a banking Trojan has received a facelift to deploy a wider range of malware, including ransomware payloads. "The Gootkit malware family has been around more than half a decade – a mature Trojan with functionality centered around banking credential theft," Soph...
Why do companies fail to stop breaches despite soaring IT security investment?
Let's first take a look back at 2020! Adding to the list of difficulties that surfaced last year, 2020 was also grim for personal data protection, as it has marked a new record number of leaked credentials and PI data. A whopping 20 billion records were stolen in a single year, increasing 66% fro...
Why do companies fail to stop breaches despite soaring IT security investment?
Let's first take a look back at 2020! Adding to the list of difficulties that surfaced last year, 2020 was also grim for personal data protection, as it has marked a new record number of leaked credentials and PI data. A whopping 20 billion records were stolen in a single year, increasing 66% fro...
Chinese Hackers Targeted India's Power Grid Amid Geopolitical Tensions
Amid heightened border tensions between India and China, cybersecurity researchers have revealed a concerted campaign against India's critical infrastructure, including the nation's power grid, from Chinese state-sponsored groups. The attacks, which coincided with the standoff between the two...
Chinese Hackers Targeted India's Power Grid Amid Geopolitical Tensions
Amid heightened border tensions between India and China, cybersecurity researchers have revealed a concerted campaign against India's critical infrastructure, including the nation's power grid, from Chinese state-sponsored groups. The attacks, which coincided with the standoff between the two...
SolarWinds Blames Intern for 'solarwinds123' Password Lapse
As cybersecurity researchers continue to piece together the sprawling SolarWinds supply chain attack, top executives of the Texas-based software services firm blamed an intern for a critical password lapse that went unnoticed for several years. The said password "solarwinds123" was originally...
SolarWinds Blames Intern for 'solarwinds123' Password Lapse
As cybersecurity researchers continue to piece together the sprawling SolarWinds supply chain attack, top executives of the Texas-based software services firm blamed an intern for a critical password lapse that went unnoticed for several years. The said password "solarwinds123" was originally...
North Korean Hackers Targeting Defense Firms with ThreatNeedle Malware
A prolific North Korean state-sponsored hacking group has been tied to a new ongoing espionage campaign aimed at exfiltrating sensitive information from organizations in the defense industry. Attributing the attacks with high confidence to the Lazarus Group, the new findings from Kaspersky signal...