Phish Swims Past Email Security with Milanote Pages

The Milanote app, billed as the “Evernote for creatives” by reviewers, has attracted the notice of cybercriminals who are abusing it to carry out credential-stealing campaigns that skate past secure email gateways SEGs, researchers said. Milanote is a tool for organizing and collaborating on...

Musk-Themed ‘$SpaceX’ Cryptoscam Invades YouTube Ads

YouTube fans have been swindled out of almost $1 million and counting thanks to an extremely convincing fake SpaceX crypto-coin campaign that uses a popular decentralized finance protocol called Uniswap. The scam is rearing its Elon-Musk-themed head in ads on YouTube that show up before and after...

Google Chrome 87 Closes High-Severity 'NAT Slipstreaming' Hole

Google has released patches for several high-severity vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser with the rollout of Chrome 87 for Windows, Mac and Linux users. Overall, Google fixed 33 vulnerabilities in its latest version, Chrome 87.0.4280.66, which is being rolled out over the coming days. This...

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...

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,...

Card Skimmer Hits Australian Bushfire Donation Site

Concerned global citizens making donations to help fight the massive Australia bushfires have been caught up in a Magecart attack, after one of the groups implanted a payment-card skimmer on the check-out page of a legitimate online donation site. Researchers ran across the Magecart script, named...

Hackers Dump 2.2M Gaming, Cryptocurrency Passwords Online

The passwords and other personal data of more than 2.2 million users of two websites were revealed online as the result of data breaches that happened earlier this year, a notable security researcher warned. Personal information belonging to the users of cryptocurrency wallet service GateHub and...

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...

HP Touchpoint Analytics Opens PCs to Code Execution Attack

A security flaw, discovered in an open-source software program that is a key component of HP’s TouchPoint Analytics service, is opening up a wide swath of HP computers to attack. The vulnerability, if exploited by local attackers with administrative privileges, can allow them to execute arbitrary...

Masad Spyware Uses Telegram Bots for Command-and-Control

A freshly discovered commercial spyware dubbed the “Masad Clipper and Stealer” is using Telegram bots as its command-and-control C2 hub. Masad harvests information from Windows and Android users and also comes with a full cadre of other malicious capabilities, including the ability to steal...

ThreatList: Apple Adware, Phishing, APT Attacks Threaten macOS Users

While macOS is often touted as “safer” on the cybersecurity front compared to Windows-based systems, cybercriminals are in fact increasingly targeting Apple’s ecosystem. The number of attacks on macOS users through malicious and potentially unwanted programs has been increasing annually since 201...

Critical Bugs Open Food-Safety Systems to Remote Attacks

Two critical vulnerabilities in a food-quality management software package would allow adversaries to completely compromise the system. The issues affect the AK-EM 800 product from SCADA vendor Danfoss. It’s an enterprise management solution for the food retail industry that provides a central...

Facebook Drops Default Facial Recognition Tag Suggestions

Facebook is giving users more control over a facial recognition feature used by the company to help identify, or Tag, people on its platform. Starting Tuesday, the company said it would allow its users to opt-out of the Tag Suggestions feature, while at the same time the company is attempting to...

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...

Building a Mobile Defense: 5 Key Questions to Ask

How often do we hear Willie Sutton’s famous but probably apocryphal quote about robbing banks because “that’s where the money is?” This gets invoked in the context of information security in general and mobile devices in particular, and there’s a reason: Given the estimates from institutions like...

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...

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...

Google Gives Users More Choice with Location-Tracking Apps

Anyone who uses a mobile app knows how convenient the features that use location data can be, from getting turn-by-turn directions and finding nearby restaurants to fitness-tracking and weather integration. But these rich mobile “experiences” – as app developers call them – can be a double-edged...

On Heels of Criticism, Newly-Released Google Chrome 70 Prioritizes Privacy

Google has lifted the curtain on its latest version of Chrome, which the tech giant has pledged touts more data privacy features, as well as fixes for high-priority vulnerabilities. The release comes after Google had promised updates in Chrome 70 to “better communicate our changes and offer more...

Adobe Patches Six Critical Flaws in ColdFusion

Adobe has released patches fixing six critical vulnerabilities in its ColdFusion product that could lead to arbitrary code-execution. The flaws impact Adobe’s ColdFusion product, which is the company’s commercial web application development platform. Impacted are the 2016 Update 6 and earlier...

Cisco Confirms Critical Firewall Software Bug Is Under Attack

Attackers are trying to exploit a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance firewall software, the company has confirmed. Cisco has updated its advisory for the vulnerability, which was first revealed on Jan. 29 and has been logged as CVE-2018-0101, on Feb. 7. “The Cisco Produ...

Malvertising Campaign Redirects Browsers To Terror Exploit Kit

Security experts are warning some “Quit Smoking” and “20 Minute Fat Loss” ads online are delivering more than sales pitches. According to researchers at Zscaler, ads are redirecting browsers to malicious landing pages hosting the Terror exploit kit. The campaigns have been sustained, with the...

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...

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...

Attackers Exploit Java, Compromise Reporters Without Borders Site

The Java saga continued when unknown, and apparently well concealed goons exploited recent Java and Internet Explorer zero-days to compromise the website of the French-based, free-press advocacy group, Reporters Without Borders. The attack, which attempted to take advantage of the time-gulf that...

Katie Moussouris on the Microsoft Blue Hat Prize

Dennis Fisher talks with Katie Moussouris of Microsoft about the company’s new Blue Hat Prize for innovative defensive security technology, why Microsoft didn’t start a bug bounty program and whether this will become an annual contest. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

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...

How to Minimize Your Database Attack Surface

Database Management Systems DBMS have extended their capabilities far beyond simply serving as data storage and query systems. Contrary to what they were in the 1970...

Voicemail Scam Steals Microsoft Credentials

Attackers are using an oft-used and still effective lure to steal credentials to key Microsoft apps by sending emails notifying potential victims that they have a voicemail message, researchers have found. A team from Zscaler ThreatLabZ has been monitoring a campaign since May that targets key...

SAP Patches 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,...

LockBit Gang to Publish 103GB of Bangkok Airways Customer Data

The LockBit ransomware gang has apparently struck again, having purportedly stolen 103GB worth of files from Bangkok Airways and promising to release them tomorrow, on Tuesday. A Dark Web intelligence firm calling itself DarkTracer apparently a separate intel firm than the better-known DarkTrace...

Reboot of PunkSpider Tool at DEF CON Stirs Debate

Researchers will release a reboot of a controversial tool that crawls the web to identify back-end vulnerabilities in websites in the hopes that companies will quickly fix them and reduce security risks. However, experts have mixed feelings about the tool called PunkSpider, created by the analyti...

NPM Package Steals Chrome Passwords

A credentials-stealing code bomb that uses legitimate password-recovery tools in Google’s Chrome web browser was found lurking in the npm open-source code repository, waiting to be planted within the sprawling galaxy of apps that pull code from that source. Researchers caught the malware filching...

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...

Linux-Focused Cryptojacking Gang Tracked to Romania

A cryptojacking gang that’s likely based in Romania is using a never-before-seen SSH brute-forcer dubbed “Diicot brute” to crack passwords on Linux-based machines with weak passwords. The point of the campaign is mainly to deploy Monero mining malware, Bitdefender researchers said in a report...

How To Defend the Extended Network Against Web Risks

Smart cybercriminals are going after web servers and browsers, more so than after individuals. Unfortunately, these types of attacks often go ignored, as they’re harder to test for in terms of pen-testing. With much of the world now working remotely, this threat has intensified. Attackers use...

Five Critical Android Bugs Patched, Part of Feb. Security Bulletin

Google patched five critical bugs in its Android operating system as part of its February Security Bulletin. Two of the flaws were remote code execution vulnerabilities found within the Android media framework and system. Three additional critical Qualcomm bugs were reported by Google and patched...

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...

Cisco Critical Flaw Patched in WAN Software Solution

Cisco patched a critical flaw in its wide area network WAN software solution for enterprises, which if exploited could give remote, unauthenticated attackers administrator privileges. The flaw exists in Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services vWAAS, which is software that Cisco describes as ...

Defying Covid-19’s Pall: Pwn2Own Goes Virtual

Covid-19 has brought the world to grinding halt, but for the hacking competition Pwn2Own, that wasn’t the case. The event, planned for CanSecWest this week in Vancouver, went virtual along with the conference itself. Faced with travel restrictions and new social-distancing guidelines, contestants...

Necurs Botnet in Crosshairs of Global Takedown Offensive

A New York State court issued an order this week giving Microsoft control of the U.S.-based infrastructure used by the notorious Necurs botnet in an effort to stop the world’s most prolific and globally dispersed spam and malware infrastructure. The move came after Microsoft and partners across 3...

New 'Haken' Malware Found On Eight Apps In Google Play Store

Researchers have identified eight malicious Android apps in the official Google Play marketplace distributing a new malware family. The “Haken” malware exfiltrates sensitive data from victims and covertly signs them up for expensive premium subscription services. The eight apps in question, which...

Report to Your Management with the Definitive ‘IR Management and Reporting’ presentation Template

The realistic approach to security is that incidents occur. While ideally, the CISO would want to prevent all of them, in practice some will succeed to a certain degree—making the ability to efficiently manage an incident response process a mandatory skill for any CISO. Moreover, apart from the...

Charming Kitten Uses Fake Interview Requests to Target Public Figures

The Iran-based hacking group Charming Kitten has resurfaced with a new campaign that uses fake interviews to target public figures to launch phishing attacks and steal victims’ email-account information. In a report released Wednesday, security researchers at Certfa Lab say they discovered the...

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...

GitLab Doles Out Half a Million Bucks to White Hats

GitLab has awarded a total of $565,650 in security bug bounties to 171 researchers who reported valid vulnerabilities in the past year — and has announced the winners of its latest hacking contest. GitLab, which started out as a web-based Git repository manager before moving into the DevOps...

D-Link Adds More Buggy Router Models to ‘Won’t Fix’ List

D-Link has warned that more of its routers are vulnerable to critical flaws that allow remote hackers to take control of hardware and steal data. The routers won’t be fixed, said D-Link, explaining that the hardware has reached its end-of-life and will no longer receive security updates. The...

James Clapper: Lessons Learned in a Post-Snowden World

LAS VEGAS – The 2013 leaks by Edward Snowden highlight holes in the U.S. government around transparency and proactively dealing with insider threats, former national intelligence director James Clapper acknowledged. The U.S. intelligence community needs to be more transparent with the public, whi...

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...