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Hacking Back? BriansClub Dark Web Attack a Boon for Banks
UPDATE A Dark Web “carding store” called BriansClub, which specializes in selling stolen payment card information, has itself become a victim, with thieves making off with 26 million credit- and debit-card records. The site appears to be a target of roundabout “hacking back” by a competitor , who...
CEO 'Deep Fake' Swindles Company Out of $243K
In the first known case of successful financial scamming via audio deep fakes, cybercrooks were able to create a near-perfect impersonation of a chief executive’s voice – and then used the audio to fool his company into transferring $243,000 to their bank account. A deep fake is a plausible video...
News Wrap: Dentist Offices Hit By Ransomware, Venmo Faces Privacy Firestorm
In this week’s news wrap podcast, editor Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals break down the top news of the week – from ransomware attacks to companies responding to outcry over privacy issues. Top stories include: Ring announced it is working with more than 400 US police departments to streamline...
The Texas Ransomware Attacks: A Gamechanger for Cybercriminals
Texas officials have been left scrambling after up to 22 Texas entities – the majority of which are local governments – were hit by a coordinated ransomware attack on Friday. So far, these include the cities of Borger and Keene, and Texas officials say the attacks are all connected and carried ou...
Joomla and WordPress Found Harboring Malicious Redirect Code
Security researchers are warning owners of Joomla and WordPress websites of a malicious redirect script that is pushing visitors to malicious websites. On Thursday, Eugene Wozniak, a security researcher with Sucuri, published a report outlining a rogue hypertext access .htaccess injector found on...
Researchers in the Dark on Powerful LightNeuron Malware for Years
LightNeuron, a backdoor specifically designed to target Microsoft Exchange mail servers, has flown under the radar since at least 2014, despite being the malware linchpin at the center of several targeted campaigns. A fresh analysis of the recently uncovered code shows that it’s the first publicl...
BEC Hack Cons Catholic Church Out of $1.75 Million
A church in Brunswick, Ohio was scammed out of a whopping $1.75 million as a result of a business email compromise BEC attack. St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, which has around 16,000 members, has been working on a massive $4 million church renovation, dubbed “Vision 20/20” – but attackers figured ou...
Nvidia Fixes 8 High-Severity Flaws Allowing DoS, Code Execution
Nvidia has released fixes for eight high-severity vulnerabilities in its Linux for Tegra driver packages. The worst of these flaws could allow information disclosure, denial of service and code execution on impacted systems. Overall, the chipmaker on Tuesday released patches for 13 flaws that...
Zero-Day Bug Lays Open TP-Link Smart Home Router
A zero-day bug has been uncovered in the TP-Link SR20 smart hub and home router, which would allow a local adversary to execute arbitrary commands on the device without authentication and establish a persistent backdoor for remote access. The SR20 is an all-in-one router that can also work as an...
Six Vulnerabilities Found in Dell EMC’s Disaster Recovery System, One Critical
A pen-tester has found six vulnerabilities in Dell EMC RecoverPoint devices, including a critical remote code execution flaw that could allow total system compromise. EMC RecoverPoint is a disaster recovery tool that can be used to back up local and remote information storage, across data centers...
Kitty Cryptomining Malware Cashes in on Drupalgeddon 2.0
Yet another bad actor has taken advantage of Drupal sites still vulnerable to “Drupalgeddon 2.0,” this time to mine cryptocurrency. The bad script, dubbed the “Kitty” cryptomining malware, takes advantage of the known critical remote-code execution vulnerability in Drupal CVE-2018-7600 to target...
Microsoft Patches Two Critical Vulnerabilities Under Attack
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update today included a massive 95 fixes that tackle vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Skype, Internet Explorer and its Edge browser. Twenty-seven of Microsoft’s patches fix remote code execution issues, allowing attackers to remotely take control of a victim’s PC...
Free Beacon Article Redirects to ZeroAccess Rootkit, Fake AV
Update: Aaron Harison, president of the Center for American Freedom, told Threatpost this morning that the issue has been resolved and the site is no longer serving malware. Hackers have latched on to the NSA surveillance story—literally. A news story on the outing of whistleblower Edward Snowden...
Microsoft to Pay $200,000 for Innovative Defense Technology in Blue Hat Prize Program
LAS VEGAS–In the face of mounting external pressure to begin paying bug bounties, Microsoft is instead launching a new program that will pay a $200,000 top prize to a security researcher who develops the most innovative defensive security technology. The program is designed to “inspire researcher...
Ukrainian DDoS Attacks Should Put US on Notice–Researchers
On Tuesday, institutions central to Ukraine’s military and economy were hit with a wave of denial-of-service DoS attacks, which sparked an avalanche of headlines around the world. The strike itself had limited impact — but the larger implications for critical infrastructure beyond the Ukraine are...
SAP to Give Threat Briefing on Uber-Severe ‘ICMAD’ Bugs
There’s a trio of critical vulnerabilities, fixed on Tuesday, in SAP business applications that use the ubiquitous Internet Communication Manager ICM: the component that gives SAP products the HTTPS web server they need to connect to the internet or talk to each other. The vulnerabilities,...
Yanluowang Ransomware Tied to Thieflock Threat Actor
A threat actor previously tied to the Thieflock ransomware operation may now be using the emerging Yanluowang ransomware in a series of attacks against U.S. corporations, researchers have found. Researchers from Symantec, a division of Broadcom Software, found ties between Thieflock and Yanluowan...
Unpatched iPhone Bug Allows Code Execution
A vulnerability in Apple iOS opens the door to remote code execution RCE, researchers found. The assessment is a revision from a previous understanding of the flaw that viewed it as a low-risk and somewhat wacky denial-of-service DoS problem affecting iPhone’s Wi-Fi feature. Apple fixed the...
Colonial Pipeline’s Ransomware Attack Sparks Emergency Declaration
The Biden administration has declared a state of emergency that covers 17 states and Washington D.C. in the wake of the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline Co., and is working with Colonial to restart operations. On Monday morning, FireEye also confirmed to Threatpost that it’s been called...
5 Fundamental But Effective IoT Device Security Controls
As the pandemic continues to fuel the shift to remote work, numerous manufacturers have capitalized on this movement to create a multitude of handy internet of things IoT devices. While these devices may make our home and work lives more convenient, they greatly expand the attack surface for...
TrickBot Continues Resurgence with Port-Scanning Module
The TrickBot trojan is continuing its bounce-back from an autumn takedown, recently adding a network-scanning module that uses the Masscan open-source tool to look for open ports. Masscan is a mass TCP/IP port scanner, which can scan the entire internet in under five minutes according to its...
Record Levels of Software Bugs Plague Short-Staffed IT Teams in 2020
2020 is shaping up to be a banner year for software vulnerabilities, leaving security professionals drowning in a veritable sea of patching, reporting and looming attacks, many of which they can’t even see. A trio of recent reports tracking software vulnerabilities over the past year underscore t...
Oracle WebLogic Server RCE Flaw Under Active Attack
If an organization hasn’t updated their Oracle WebLogic servers to protect them against a recently disclosed RCE flaw, researchers have a dire warning: “Assume it has been compromised.” Oracle WebLogic Server is a popular application server used in building and deploying enterprise Java EE...
Maze Ransomware Adopts Ragnar Locker Virtual-Machine Approach
The operators of the Maze ransomware have added a fresh trick to their bag of badness: Distributing ransomware payloads via virtual machines VM. It’s a “radical” approach, according to researchers, meant to help the ransomware get around endpoint defense. That’s according to researchers with Soph...
Most companies are ignoring your most vulnerable endpoint…and it’s not the laptop
It’s an open secret that mobile devices are your weakest security link. We pretend not to know how vulnerable they are to attack, nor how exposed they leave your business. A 2019 study found that most companies allow mobile devices to access between 1/3 and 3/4 of their most business-critical...
Zeus Sphinx Banking Trojan Arises Amid COVID-19
The Zeus Sphinx banking trojan is back after being off the scene for nearly three years. According to researchers Amir Gandler and Limor Kessem at IBM X-Force, Sphinx a.k.a. Zloader or Terdot began resurfacing in December. However, the researchers observed a significant increase in volume in Marc...
Spear-Phishing Attack Lures Victims With 'HIV Results'
Recently discovered spear-phishing emails are using a unique “scare-factor” lure to convince victims to open attached malicious Microsoft Excel documents: Their HIV test results. Researchers are warning of a recent campaign involving emails claiming to come from Vanderbilt University Medical...
Next-Gen Ransomware Packs a 'Human' Punch, Microsoft Warns
Researchers are warning that “human operated” ransomware campaigns are growing more sophisticated, adopting new infection tactics and lateral movement techniques that traditional defense teams aren’t equipped to handle. Researchers said that “auto-spreading” ransomware – like WannaCry and NotPety...
Have I Been Pwned No Longer For Sale
After announcing last year that he was looking to sell Have I Been Pwned HIPB, Troy Hunt said this week that the popular service has been pulled off the market and will instead continue to be run independently. HIBP offers a free service for consumers to check if their usernames and passwords hav...
FBI Plans to Inform States of Election Breaches
The FBI has changed its policy around election cybersecurity and said it will now notify state officials in the event that local election systems are hacked. The move—revealed in a media briefing Thursday and then published online later that day—extends the number of election officials who are...
Oski Data-Stealing Malware Emerges to Target North America, China
An emergent and effective data-harvesting tool dubbed Oski is proliferating in North America and China, stealing online account credentials, credit-card numbers, cryptowallet accounts and more. Oski, likely a Finnish or Nordic variant of the word Oska, meaning “Viking warrior or god” in Samoan,...
Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone—Again
Apple once again is drawing the line at breaking into a password-protected iPhone for a criminal investigation, refusing a request by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI to help unlock the iPhones of a shooter responsible for an attack in Florida. The company late Monday said it won’t help th...
NSO Group President Defends Controversial Tactics
In a rare public appearance by Shiri Dolev, the president of the secretive NSO Group Technologies, the company leader vented over what she called “false myths” about the firm. Dolev also took indirect aim at secure messaging platforms, offered by the likes of Facebook, explaining surveillance...
Download: 2019 Security Team Assessment Template
As a security professional, it is critical that you assess the performance of your security team and keep in-the-know regarding your current security posture, in addition to planning ahead. ‘The Ultimate 2019 Security Team Assessment Template‘ is a first-of-its-kind tool that encapsulates all the...
Insider Threats, a Cybercriminal Favorite, Not Easy to Mitigate
LAS VEGAS – Insider threats are an ongoing top danger for companies — but when it comes to mitigation efforts, incident-response teams face an array of challenges. Discussions with various incident-response teams revealed that between 25 to 30 percent of data breaches involved an external actor...
BEC Scam Costs Media Giant Nikkei $29 Million
Media conglomerate Nikkei Inc. has fallen victim to a business email compromise BEC scam that fleeced the company out of $29 million. Nikkei is Japan’s largest financial media organization and lends its name to Japan’s premier stock index, which is the equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Avera...
City of Johannesburg, on Second Hit, Refuses to Pay Ransom
The city of Johannesburg, South Africa, is refusing to pay a ransom of four Bitcoins to a hacker group who accessed the city’s network and stole sensitive data, threatening to release it if the ransom wasn’t paid. It’s the second time in several months that the city has been hit with a cyberattac...
China's Sway Over Tech Companies Tested with Apple, Blizzard
At least two American tech companies, Apple and gaming giant Blizzard, have come under fire – from different quarters – for wading into waters surrounding the Hong Kong protests that have been ongoing since June. The situation is shaping up to be a test for the American tech sector’s commitment t...
Clickjacking Evolves to Hook Millions of Top-Site Visitors
Clickjacking, where links on a website redirect unknowing users to spam, advertising or malware, has been around for decades. However, new tactics that defy the best mitigation efforts of browsers has led to it affecting millions of internet users browsing the web’s top sites, researchers found i...
Why Cities Are a Low-Hanging Fruit For Ransomware
Ransomware attacks against local governments and cities are repeatedly making headlines, with crippling results on city operations and budgets. Last month, the Florida city of Riviera Beach paid hackers $600,000 after being hit by a ransomware attack that downed its computer systems for three...
Top UK Official Derides Huawei Claiming it has ‘Bad Security’
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – A top official at the National Cyber Security Centre in the UK set his sights on Huawei, the telecom equipment giant, in an opening keynote session at the GSMA’s Mobile360 Security for 5G conference on Tuesday. Ian Levy, technical director at the agency, took the stage fo...
200k Personal Records Exposed by Events Planning Firm
A database belonging to Australian event planning startup, Amazingco, was found leaking more than 200,000 records with personal details tied to children’s entertainment, wine tour events and more. Amazingco, which is based in Austrailia but offers services in New Zealand and the U.S., connects...
Mozilla Tackles Two Critical Flaws with Firefox 67 Release
Mozilla patched several critical vulnerabilities with the release of its Firefox 67 browser on Tuesday. The worst of the bugs patched are two memory safety flaws that could allow attackers to exploit the vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system, according to a security bulletin issue...
Smart Ski Helmet Headphone Flaws Leak Personal, GPS Data
Researchers have found a slew of vulnerabilities in a pair of smart headphones designed to fit under ski helmets. The flaws could allow a bad actor to view victims’ personal information, track them and even listen to their private conversations via the headphones’ walkie-talkie function, which us...
Lenovo Fixes Hardcoded Password Flaw Impacting ThinkPad Fingerprint Scanners
PC maker Lenovo issued a fix for a hardcoded password flaw impacting ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation laptops. The flaw affects nearly a dozen Lenovo laptop models that run versions of Microsoft Windows 7, 8 and the 8.1 operating system. The vulnerability was disclosed by Lenovo on Thursday...
Microsoft Issues 'Important' Security Fix for Azure AD Connect
Microsoft is warning customers of a bug in its Azure Active Directory Connect product that could allow an adversary to escalate privileges and reset passwords and gain unauthorized access to user accounts. The advisory 4033453 was issued Tuesday via Microsoft’s TechNet website for the vulnerabili...
Latest Tax Scams Include Phishing Lures, Malware
Microsoft warned Monday this year’s crop of tax scams are using social engineering attacks based on fear to spread Zdowbot and Omaneat banking Trojans and collect personal info via spoofed tax sites linked to from phishing campaigns. The warning comes with less than a month before the April 18 ta...
Serious Dirty Cow Linux Vulnerability Under Attack
A nine-year-old Linux vulnerability that affects most of the major distributions has been recently used in public attacks. The flaw, nicknamed Dirty Cow because it lives in the copy-on-write COW feature in Linux, is worrisome because it can give a local attacker root privileges. While the Linux...
Bluetooth Hack Leaves Many Smart Locks, IoT Devices Vulnerable To MitM Attacks
Sławomir Jasek with research firm SecuRing is sounding an alarm over the growing number of Bluetooth devices used for keyless entry and mobile point-of-sales systems that are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. Jasek said the problem is traced back to devices that use the Bluetooth Low Energ...
Bash Vulnerability Exploits Dropping DDoS Bots
A honeypot run by researchers at AlienVault Labs has snared two separate pieces of malware attempting to exploit the Bash vulnerability. One sample is a repurposed IRC bot written in Perl that is trying to build a botnet to be used in distributed denial of service attacks DDoS, said Jaime Blasco,...