IP Surveillance Bugs in Axis Gear Allow RCE, Data Theft

Three vulnerabilities in the IP video-surveillance systems created by Axis Communications could allow arbitrary code execution, among other attacks. That’s according to Nozomi Networks Labs, whose researchers examined the company’s Axis Companion Recorder, a compact network video recorder NVR tha...

Proxyware Services Open Orgs to Abuse – Report

Services that allow consumers to resell their own internet bandwidth for profit to businesses that want to resell it are ripe for abuse, according to researchers. The burgeoning business model is growing in popularity with consumers who earn about $1 for every 10GB of their bandwidth shared with...

T-Mobile’s Security Is ‘Awful,’ Says Purported Thief

On Thursday, a 21-year-old US citizen claiming to be the attacker who stole data on more than 50 million T-Mobile customers called the telecom’s security “awful.” On Friday, a “humbled” T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert wiped the egg from his face and apologized for the debacle, the repercussions of whic...

Data for 700M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale

A new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records has appeared on a popular hacker forum, according to researchers. Analysts from Privacy Sharks stumbled across the data put up for sale on RaidForums by a hacker calling himself “GOD User TomLiner.” The advertisement, posted June 22, claims that 700...

Mount Locker Ransomware Aggressively Changes Up Tactics

The Mount Locker ransomware has shaken things up in recent campaigns with more sophisticated scripting and anti-prevention features, according to researchers. And, the change in tactics appears to coincide with a rebranding for the malware into “AstroLocker.” According to researchers, Mount Locke...

QR Codes Offer Easy Cyberattack Avenues as Usage Spikes

The use of mobile quick-response QR codes in daily life, for both work and personal use, continues to rise – and yet, most people aren’t aware that these handy mobile shortcuts can open them up to savvy cyberattacks. That’s according to Ivanti, which carried out a survey of 4,157 consumers across...

Ransomware Attack Creates Dutch Cheese Shortages

An Easter weekend ransomware attack on a food-logistics firm in the Netherlands has caused shortages of prepackaged cheese in supermarkets across the country. The largest Dutch grocery store chain had some bad news for a cheese-mad nation. “Due to a technical malfunction, there is limited...

Zoom Screen-Sharing Glitch ‘Briefly’ Leaks Sensitive Data

A security blip in the current version of Zoom could inadvertently leak users’ data to other meeting participants on a call. However, the data is only leaked briefly, making a potential attack difficult to carry out. The flaw CVE-2021-28133 stems from a glitch in the screen sharing function of...

A New Paradigm in Data Security: Insider Risk Management

The pandemic was a force accelerator for digital transformation in the enterprise. It’s not just the dramatic remote work shift — it’s a profound shift toward prioritizing speed and flexibility as the drivers of a company’s competitive advantage. But as faster, more agile ways of working...

Linux Systems Under Attack By New RedXOR Malware

Researchers have discovered a new backdoor targeting Linux systems, which they link back to the Winnti threat group. The backdoor is called RedXOR – in part because its network data-encoding scheme is based on the XOR encryption algorithm, and in part because its samples were found on an old...

WordPress Injection Anchors Widespread Malware Campaign

The downloader malware known as Gootloader is poisoning websites globally as part of an extensive drive-by and watering-hole cybercampaign that abuses WordPress sites by injecting them with hundreds of pages of fake content. The adversaries have so far delivered the Cobalt Strike intrusion tool,...

'Among Us' Mobile Game Under Siege by Attackers

The meteoric rise of the game Among Us appears to be outpacing its developer’s ability to keep up with malicious actors. On Sunday night, a specific ongoing attack forced InnerSloth, the company behind the game, to hastily roll out an update designed to kick bad actors off the game’s servers —...

Travelex, Other Orgs Face DDoS Threats as Extortion Campaign Rages On

Companies worldwide have continued to receive extortion emails threatening to launch a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack on their network, unless they pay up – with British foreign-exchange company Travelex reportedly being one recent high-profile threat recipient. Researchers said that...

California Elementary Kids Kicked Off Online Learning by Ransomware

As students head back to the classroom, the spate of ransomware attacks against schools is continuing. The latest is a strike against a California school district that closed down remote learning for 6,000 elementary school students, according to city officials. The cyberattack, against the Newha...

Four More Bugs Patched in Microsoft’s Azure Sphere IoT Platform

Details tied to a pair of remote code execution bugs in Microsoft’s IoT security platform called Azure Sphere were released Monday. Also made public were specifics associated with two additional privilege escalation flaws impacting the same cloud security platform. Public disclosure of all four o...

Chafer APT Hits Middle East Govs With Latest Cyber-Espionage Attacks

Researchers have uncovered new cybercrime campaigns from the known Chafer advanced persistent threat APT group. The attacks have hit several air transportation and government victims in hopes of data exfiltration. The Chafer APT has been active since 2014 and has previously launched cyber espiona...

Verizon Data Breach Report: DoS Skyrockets, Espionage Dips

Denial-of-service DoS attacks have spiked over the past year, while cyber-espionage campaigns have spiraled downwards. That’s according to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR released Tuesday, which analyzed 32,002 security incidents and 3,950 data breaches across 16 industry...

Feds Reveal Hidden Cobra's Trove of Espionage Tools

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation have exposed what they say are hacking tools used by the North Korean-sponsored APT group Hidden Cobra. The disclosure was the result of a broad government effort to combat the advanced persistent threat group, who have...

'Double Extortion' Ransomware Attacks Spike

Victims of ransomware attacks now face a double whammy of headaches. Cybercriminals are increasingly inflicting more pain on ransomware victims by threatening to leak compromised data or use it in future spam attacks, if ransom demands aren’t met. The ransomware tactic, call “double extortion,”...

Fake Coronavirus ‘Vaccine’ Website Busted in DoJ Takedown

The Department of Justice has raised its first federal court action against online fraud relating to the coronavirus pandemic, on Sunday taking steps to shutter a fraudulent website that claimed to give away free coronavirus vaccines. The website, “coronavirusmedicalkit.com,” was purporting to gi...

Adobe Discloses Dozens of Critical Photoshop, Acrobat Reader Flaws

Adobe has released out-of-band updates addressing critical vulnerabilities in its Photoshop and Acrobat Reader products, which if exploited could allow arbitrary code-execution. Overall, Adobe on Wednesday patched flaws tied to 41 CVEs across its products, 29 of which were critical in severity. T...

High-Severity Flaws Plague Intel Graphics Drivers

Intel has issued security patches for six high-severity vulnerabilities in its Windows graphics drivers which, if exploited, could enable escalation of privilege, denial of service DoS and information disclosure. The graphics driver is software that controls how graphic components work with the...

RSAC 2020: GM's Transportation Future Hinges on Cybersecurity

SAN FRANCISCO — General Motors is working on self-driving cars, cars that monitor heart rates and other vital functions, zero-emission vehicles and more – all underpinned by exceedingly complex coding and relying on ubiquitous connectivity. But there’s a problem. The cyber-talent gap is hitting t...

Stalkerware Attacks Increased 50 Percent Last Year, Report

The number of stalkerware attacks on mobile devices increased 50 percent over the last year, showing an upward and continued trend in the emerging threat, researchers said. Over the past year, the instances of stalkerware—which tracks users without their knowledge and can result in harassment,...

Dropbox Passes $1M Milestone for Bug-Bounty Payouts

Dropbox, the cloud-based file-sharing service, has reported that it has paid out more than $1 million to bug-bounty hunters since starting its program in 2014. The milestone comes after the service tripled its bounties in 2017, and after running two live hacking events with the HackerOne platform...

Wawa Breach May Have Affected More Than 30 Million Customers

A recent dump of payment card information being sold on a popular online fraud marketplace suggests that more than 30 million payment cards may have been affected by a malware attack and data breach at Wawa convenience stores and gas stations that was first revealed in December. The Joker’s Stash...

Pairing Privacy and Security with Digital Identities in Retail

As today’s customer expectations for digital shopping continue to escalate, many online retailers are leveraging consumers’ unique digital identities to provide a seamless and secure account registration and login process. However, it’s important to recognize the security and privacy implications...

All in the (Ransomware) Family: 10 Ways to Take Action

In a world where everything is an “as-a-service,” it’s no surprise that ransomware-as-a-service RaaS is a hot ticket on the Dark Web. FortiGuard Labs has observed at least two significant ransomware families – Sodinokibi and Nemty – now being deployed as RaaS solutions. Meanwhile, cybercriminals...

GE, Dunkin', Forever 21 Caught Up in Broad Internal Document Leak

A marketing firm exposed hashed passwords and sensitive public relations documents of thousands of customers via a leaky Amazon S3 database – including big-name brands like GE, Dunkin’ Donuts, Forever 21 and more. Researchers with UpGuard in October discovered a misconfigured Amazon S3 storage...

Feds Offer $5M Reward to Nab 'Evil Corp' Dridex Hacker

U.S. authorities are offering up $5 million for information leading to the arrest of Evil Corp. leader Maksim V. Yakubets, 32, of Russia, who goes under the moniker “aqua.” The U.S. alleges that Yakubets and his company have stolen millions of dollars from victims using the Dridex banking trojan...

DarkUniverse APT Emerges to Deliver Sophisticated, Targeted Spy Attacks

A sophisticated espionage APT that was active for at least eight years before receding into the shadows has been uncovered — and researchers said that it may still be active. In April 2017, ShadowBrokers published one of their many leaks of cyberweapons used by the National Security Agency NSA an...

Google Analytics Emerges as a Phishing Tool

Cybercriminals are leveraging key technical markers used in web analytics—particularly Google Analytics—to create more sophisticated and targeted phishing attacks, new research has found. However, this also makes them more susceptible to detection by organizations defending their sites against...

Apple Shares Some Browsing History with Chinese Company

Apple is sending some browsing history of iOS 13 Safari users to Tencent Holdings Limited, a Chinese multinational conglomerate. The data shared is tied to the Safari Safe Browsing technology. Revelations of the relationship have drawn criticism from security and privacy experts. Apple’s Safari...

Edward Snowden Sued by U.S. Over New Memoir

The U.S. has sued whistleblower Edward Snowden over his new memoir, alleging he published the book in violation of non-disclosure agreements signed with both the CIA and NSA. Edward Snowden, a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency and contractor for the National Security Agency NSA, ...

Massive Gaming DDoS Exploits Widespread Technology

UPDATE Akamai Wednesday revealed that it’s witnessed the fourth-largest DDoS attack the company has ever encountered, leveraging a widespread and highly exploitable UDP amplification technique known as WS-Discovery WSD. WSD—a consumer device network discovery and connectivity technology—was seen...

TGI Fridays Delivers Customer Indigestion Over Data Exposure

Customers of TGI Fridays Australia were “strongly recommended” to change their MyFridays membership rewards program passwords. According to an email sent to customers this week, the company had inadvertently left sensitive loyalty program data exposed on the internet. News of the leaky server...

Fortnite Ransomware Masquerades as an Aimbot Game Hack

A ransomware that calls itself “Syrk” is targeting gaming juggernaut Fortnite’s enormous user base, purporting to be a game hack tool. Syrk promises players an “aimbot” for aiming more accurately while playing, and “ESP,” for discovering other player’s locations in the game. What it really gives...

E3 Website Leaks Private Addresses for Thousands of Journalists

A YouTube content creator said that she has found a spreadsheet with the names and addresses – including private residences – of more than 2,000 journalists and content creators on the popular Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 trade show’s website. E3 2019, which took place this year June 11 to 13...

Google Releases Open Source Tool For Computational Privacy

Google is releasing a new open-source cryptographic tool aimed at boosting privacy around sensitive data sets. The tool, called Private Join and Compute, is designed to help companies who are working together with confidential data sets. Private Join and Compute, allows companies to share data in...

Podcast: Behind-the-Scenes Look at Scattered Canary BEC Cybergang

LONDON, U.K. – At Infosecurity Europe, Threatpost caught up with Agari researchers to discuss their threat research unveiled at the show about a newly-unveiled business email compromise BEC cybergang. The cybercriminal group, which researchers called Scattered Canary, has been evolving for over 1...

RSA Conference 2019: Ultrasound Hacked in Two Clicks

SAN FRANCISCO – Researchers have highlighted the endemic insecurity of the hospital environment by executing a proof-of-concept attack on an ultrasound machine. In doing so, they were able to gain access to the machine’s entire database of patient ultrasound images. Check Point Research worked wi...

High-Severity SHAREit App Flaws Open Files for the Taking

Two high-severity flaws in the SHAREit Android app allow an attacker to bypass the file transfer application’s device authentication mechanism – and ultimately download content and arbitrary files from the victim’s device, along with a raft of data such as Facebook tokens and cookies. SHAREit is ...

Tumblr Privacy Bug Could Have Exposed Sensitive Account Data

Tumblr on Wednesday disclosed it had fixed a vulnerability that could have exposed sensitive account information including usernames/passwords and individual IP addresses. However, the company stressed there’s no evidence that any data was exposed. The bug existed in the “Recommended Blogs” featu...

FitMetrix Exposes Millions of Customer Details, Accessed by Criminals

FitMetrix, which makes performance-tracking software that gym owners can brand and offer to their customers, has exposed millions of customers’​ records, because they were maintaining completely open cloud servers. To boot, the records were accessed by cybercriminals prior to the public access...

Samba Patches Critical Bug Exploitable With One Line Of Code

A patch for a critical vulnerability impacting the free networking software Samba was issued Wednesday. The flaw poses a severe threat to users, with approximately 104,000 Samba installations vulnerable to remote takeover. More troubling, experts say, the vulnerability can be exploited with just...

VMWare Fixes Critical RCE in vCenter Server

VMware patched a critical vulnerability in its vCenter Server platform late last week that could have let an attacker execute arbitrary code in some scenarios. The vulnerability affected two versions of vCenter, 6.5 and 6.0. Users are encouraged to update to the most recent versions, 6.5c, and...

Android Ransomware Attacks Using Towelroot, Hacking Team Exploits

A menacing wave of ransomware that locks up Android devices and demands victims pay $200 in Apple iTunes gift card codes is raising concern among security researchers. The ransomware attacks, they say, open a new chapter for Android vulnerabilities similar to Microsoft’s obsolete, unpatched and...

VMware Releases Patches for XSS, Cert. Validation Issue

VMware released a handful of patches late last week to fix several vulnerabilities, including a nasty cross-site scripting issue in one of its server virtualization platforms. The vulnerabilities lie in VMware’s vCenter Server Appliance vCSA – a module for VMware’s vCenter Server. The main bug, a...

SSL Pulse Scans Quantify Vulnerable OpenSSL Servers

Certain mitigating factors made the recent OpenSSL man-in-the-middle vulnerability a notch or two below Heartbleed in terms of criticality. With that in consideration, it’s probably no surprise that patching levels for CVE-2014-0224 aren’t as high out of the gate as they were for Heartbleed. Ivan...

Microsoft Expected to Patch Pwn2Own IE Vulnerabilities

Appropriately enough for the start of the baseball season, Microsoft is going to go 4-for-4 and release another set of critical Internet Explorer patches on Tuesday, the fourth consecutive month in which serious vulnerabilities in the browser are being addressed in Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday month...