Post-Cyberattack, Universal Health Services Faces $67M in Losses

The cyberattack that hit Universal Health Services UHS in September has cost the healthcare service provider a whopping $67 million in damages, according to financial statements. A fourth-quarter earnings report last week from UHS highlighted the “significant incremental labor expense” needed to...

Firewall Vendor Patches Critical Auth Bypass Flaw

Germany-based cybersecurity company Genua has fast-tracked a fix for a critical flaw in one of its firewall products. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow local attackers to bypass authentication measures and log in to internal company networks with the highest level of privileges. Genua...

Finnish IT Giant Hit with Ransomware Cyberattack

A major Finnish IT provider has been hit with a ransomware attack that has forced the company to turn off some services and infrastructure in a disruption to customers, while it takes recovery measures. Norwegian business journal E24 reported the attack on Espoo, Finland-based TietoEVRY on Tuesda...

Supply-Chain Hack Breaches 35 Companies, Including PayPal, Microsoft, Apple

An ethical hacker has demonstrated a novel supply-chain attack that breached the systems of more than 35 technology players, including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Tesla and Uber, by exploiting public, open-source developer tools. The attack, devised by security researcher Alex...

Crypto Crook Hired Steven Seagal to Promote Scam, Now Faces Charges

Hundreds of investors in a fake cryptocurrency scam were bilked out of $11 million by John DeMarr, who advised them to invest in fake cryptocurrency “Bitcoiin,” took their money and spent it on a Porsche, jewelry and upgrades to his home, a criminal complaint from the Department of Justice allege...

NSA Urges SysAdmins to Replace Obsolete TLS Protocols

The National Security Agency NSA is lighting a fire under system administrators who are dragging their feet to replace insecure and outdated Transport Layer Security TLS protocol instances. The agency this week released new guidance and tools to equip companies to update from obsolete older...

Spotify Wrapped 2020 Rollout Marred by Pop Star Hacks

In the midst of its popular Spotify Wrapped 2020 playlist rollout of the year’s most popular songs, the streaming service is grappling with a security breach, which affected the pages of some of its biggest stars, including Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa, Future, Pop Smoke and others. Spotify is the most...

Android Malware Bypasses 2FA And Targets Telegram, Gmail Passwords

Researchers have uncovered a threat group launching surveillance campaigns that target victims’ personal device data, browser credentials and Telegram messaging application files. One notable tool in the group’s arsenal is an Android malware that collects all two-factor authentication 2FA securit...

UPDATE – TikTok Ban: Security Experts Weigh in on the App's Risks

UPDATE Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat over the weekend have gotten an 11th hour reprieve from a plan to cut off access to them. As a ban on U.S. downloads loomed for Sunday, TikTok owner ByteDance reached an agreement to sell significant ownership stakes to Oracle and Walmart. While the deal is...

Disinformation Spurs a Thriving Industry as U.S. Election Looms

In the years since the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, threat actors have pieced together a new playbook for sowing confusion and doubt within the American electorate. On Wednesday, researchers with Cisco Talos released a report PDF that details how a number of these new sophisticated campaigns...

Researchers Warn of Active Malware Campaign Using HTML Smuggling

An active campaign has been spotted that utilizes HTML smuggling to deliver malware, effectively bypassing various network security solutions, including sandboxes, legacy proxies and firewalls. Krishnan Subramanian, security researcher with Menlo Security, told Threatpost that the campaign...

Amazon Fixes Alexa Glitch That Could Have Divulged Personal Data

UPDATE Vulnerabilities in Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant platform could allow attackers to access users’ personal information, like home addresses – simply by persuading them to click on a malicious link. Researchers with Check Point found several web application flaws on Amazon Alexa subdomain...

Microsoft Warns on OAuth Attacks Against Cloud App Users

Against the backdrop of widespread remote working and the increased use of collaboration apps, attackers are ramping up application-based attacks that exploit OAuth 2.0, Microsoft is warning. OAuth is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for people to sign into services...

Notorious Hacker 'Fxmsp' Outed After Widespread Access-Dealing

“Fxmsp,” a notorious hacker who made headlines last year for allegedly stealing and selling source code and customer access from McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro, has been outed. He’s a Kazakh national named Andrey Turchin, and according to unsealed court documents, he faces hacking charges datin...

EvilQuest: Inside A 'New Class' of Mac Malware

The new malware sample discovered this week, dubbed EvilQuest by security researchers, may be ushering in a new class of Mac malware, according to Thomas Reed, director of Mac and mobile with Malwarebytes. While EvilQuest pretends to be ransomware, in the background it’s actually using its...

Zoom Restricts End-to-End Encryption to Paid Users

Security experts are up in arms after learning that video conferencing app Zoom will only offer end-to-end encryption to paid users. On Zoom’s Wednesday first-quarter financial earnings call, Zoom CEO Eric Yuang said that the upcoming end-to-end encryption feature would not apply for free users...

Sphinx Malware Returns to Riddle U.S. Targets, with Modifications

The Zeus Sphinx banking trojan has seen a recent resurgence in the United States, sporting some modifications and using COVID-19 spam as a lure. Sphinx re-emerged in December but saw a big spike in March via the use of coronavirus themes. Since April, it has been seen attacking U.S. targets with ...

In COVID-19 Scam Scramble, Cybercrooks Recycle Phishing Kits

Phishing attacks looking to take advantage of interest and fear around the COVID-19 health crisis are becoming a pandemic themselves – and apparently cybercriminals are looking to conserve resources by leaning on their older stockpiles of weapons to keep the infection wave going. Or Katz, a...

Azure Red Flag: Microsoft Accidentally Fixes Cloud Config ‘Bug’

UPDATE Researchers are shedding light on a Microsoft Azure misconfiguration bug that leaked sensitive access tokens, which could have given hackers access to virtual machine instances and cloud-based storage buckets. Since its discovery, an update has fixed what researchers said was a...

RSAC 2020 Keynote: Changing the World's False Perception of Cybersecurity

SAN FRANCISCO – Today, cybersecurity is portrayed in the media and by businesses as an ongoing complex conflict between defenders and cybercriminals, with heightened noise around hyper-technical proof-of-concept attacks, or nation state threats. But, the reality is starkly different, said Rohit...

Google: Efforts Against Bad Android Apps on Play Store Are Working

Some of the efforts Google has made over the past few years to bolster the security of Android app users as well as the mobile apps available on its Google Play store are starting to work, according to the tech giant. The company, which historically has struggled mightily to keep bad apps and...

Google Chrome To Bar HTTP File Downloads

Google Chrome will soon restrict certain files, like PDFs or executables, from being downloaded via an HTTP connection, if they are loaded on HTTPS webpages. HTTPS indicates that a website has an encrypted connection. When connecting to an HTTP website, browsers merely look up the IP address and...

Dutch Politician Could Get Three Years in Prison for Hacking iCloud Accounts

Prosecutors in the Netherlands are asking for three years in prison for a Dutch politician who hacked into women’s personal iCloud accounts and stole nude photos and other personal digital material belonging to them, then leaked some of it online. The public prosecutor of the North Holland Public...

Smart TVs: The Cyberthreat Lurking in Your Living Room, Feds Warn

Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales of smart TVs are likely prodigious this Thanksgiving weekend – but consumers need to be aware of the hole they can punch in home cyber-defenses. That’s the word from the FBI, which warned that smart TVs, which hook up to the internet to allow users to access ap...

Security Firms, Nonprofits Team to Fight Stalkerware

The scourge of so-called “stalkerware” has accelerated as mobile cyberattacks in general have become more common, and it’s something that’s being addressed through a security industry collaboration that launched this week. The term “stalkerware” refers to both surreptitious spyware available on t...

Facebook Privacy Breach: 100 Developers Improperly Accessed Data

UPDATE Facebook said that 100 third-party app developers have improperly accessed the names and profile pictures of members in various Facebook groups – data that was restricted in 2018 by the platform after its Cambridge Analytica privacy snafu. Facebook said that the developers – including 11 i...

Emotet Resurgence Continues With New Tactics, Techniques and Procedures

The notorious banking trojan Emotet, that mysteriously disappeared over the summer, returned last month dropping a new collection of malware including information stealers, email harvesters, self-propagation mechanisms and ransomware. But since the malware returned from its hiatus, there was no...

Privacy Groups: Ring's Police Partnerships Can Lead to Sinister Ends

More than 30 privacy and consumer advocacy groups are urging local legislators to intervene in doorbell-camera company Ring’s partnerships with law enforcement. In 2018, Amazon-owned Ring announced that it was starting a “new neighborhood watch” effort, to allow homeowners to provide voluntary...

Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder Spills 2 Million Passwords

More than 2 million passwords for Wi-Fi hotspots were leaked online by the Android app developer behind the mobile application called WiFi Finder. The passwords were part of an insecure database found by researchers at GDI Foundation. The Android app itself did not just help users find Wi-Fi...

Purveyor of Cracked Netflix, Hulu, Spotify Accounts Arrested

A Sydney man has been arrested after allegedly selling hundreds of thousands of compromised account details for subscription streaming services, including for Netflix, Hulu and music streaming service Spotify – raking in about $212,000 $300,000 AUD in profit in the process. The Australian Federal...

Managing Enterprise Security After the Data Supernova

As the amount of data continues to grow and expand outside of the enterprise, security leaders need to develop a plan to quickly secure it. The big promise of cloud computing was that it would simplify security. Organizations would no longer have to worry about securing their infrastructure becau...

Apple Disables Group FaceTime Following Major Privacy Glitch

Apple has made Group FaceTime temporarily unavailable following a major flaw discovered on Monday evening. The bug allows anyone with iOS to FaceTime other iOS users and listen in on their private conversations – without the user on other end rejecting or accepting the call. The bug makes use of ...

Google Chrome 71 Touts 43 Fixes, Fights Ad Abuse

Google officially lifted the curtain on Chrome 71 for Windows, Mac and Linux on Tuesday. The latest browser version touts new security features and a slew of fixes. Overall, Google issued 43 patches with the security update for Chrome 71. The newest version, 71.0.3578.80, included an array of hig...

Multiple D-Link Routers Open to Complete Takeover with Simple Attack

Eight D-Link routers in the company’s small/home office “DWR” range are vulnerable to complete takeover – but the vendor said it is planning on only patching two, according to a researcher. Błażej Adamczyk of the Silesian University of Technology in Poland discovered the vulnerabilities in May,...

Only ATM Heists Set to Accelerate After $13M Break-In

Mere days after the Feds warned banks about an impending ATM cash heist, hackers managed to siphon $13 million from the Pune, India-based Cosmos Bank – using cloned versions of the bank’s debit cards over the course of two days. It’s unlikely to be the last ATM theft that makes news, given how...

Social Media Privacy Dominates Apple iOS 12, macOS Launches

Social media privacy is top of mind for Apple on the heels of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica controversy. On Monday, Apple released the latest versions of its desktop and mobile operating systems at the Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC, which addresses a bevy of security and privacy concern...

Adobe Doles Out Second Round of Higher Priority Patches

A week after issuing updates on Patch Tuesday, Adobe has posted patches for a second slew of 24 critical vulnerabilities, which have a higher risk of being exploited. This week’s crop of vulnerabilities, of which there were 47 overall, impact versions of Adobe’s Acrobat DC Acrobat Reader DC, and...

SquirrelMail Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Patched

Developers behind the PHP-based webmail package SquirrelMail patched a remote code execution vulnerability that could let attackers execute arbitrary commands on the target and compromise the system on Thursday. Dawid Golunski, a researcher with Legal Hackers discovered the vulnerability and...

Hundreds of Thousands of Netgear Routers Vulnerable to Password Bypass

Hundreds of thousands–potentially more than one million–Netgear routers are susceptible to a pair of vulnerabilities that can lead to password disclosure. Researchers said that while anyone who has physical access to a router can exploit the vulnerabilities locally, the real threat is that the fl...

PHPMailer, SwiftMailer Updates Resolve Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in two different libraries used to send emails via PHP were patched this week. An issue in PHPMailer, thought fixed, was resolved with an update, version 5.2.21, pushed late Wednesday. Developers with another mailing library for PHP, SwiftMailer,...

Persistent EITest Malware Campaign Jumps from Angler to Neutrino

A two-year-old EITest malware campaign is still going strong, fueled by the fact it has shifted its distribution technique over time. Now, researchers at the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center, are reporting EITest is morphing again based on analysis of the malware campaign conducted earlier...

New Campaign Targeting Japanese with Hacking Team Zero Day

Yet another group of attackers has quickly cashed in on one of the Adobe Flash zero days uncovered in the HackingTeam leak and is leveraging it to target Japanese organizations. Last week researchers determined that attackers were able to compromise two Japanese websites, the country’s...

IBM Outs Dyre Wolf Campaign Steals $1 Million

The Dyre banking Trojan‘s ascension to the top of the financial malware food chain took a massive leap forward in the first three months of 2015. Already spreading a damaging piece of malware that targets corporate bank accounts, the Eastern European keepers of Dyre recently upped their social...

March 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Windows IT shops figure to be in for some scrambling today. Not only was it revealed that a five-year-old patch for a vulnerability exploited by Stuxnet was incomplete and machines have been exposed since 2010, but today is also Patch Tuesday and the updated Stuxnet patch is one of 14 bulletins...

Third Adobe Flash 0Day Under Attack in HanJuan Exploit Kit

The little-known HanJuan exploit kit is delivering attacks targeting the most recent Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability. Adobe has yet to produce a patch for the flaw, which researchers at Trustwave said is a use-after-free vulnerability. The flaw is the third to hit Flash in the last two...

January 2015 Oracle Critical Patch update

Oracle’s first Critical Patch Update of the year arrived Tuesday with its usual volume, and some disturbing fanfare. Oracle admins today are staring at 169 patches on their collective plates across the company’s product line. One of the more pressing fixes is for a an issue in the Oracle E-Busine...

August 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Microsoft today released its monthly Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins, and the top priority is another cumulative update for Internet Explorer; this one patches 26 vulnerabilities, including one that’s been publicly reported, Microsoft said, and is likely being exploited. All of them are rated...

Oracle Patch Update to Include 109 Patches

Buckle up Oracle administrators for 109 patches coming your way tomorrow. Oracle’s quarterly Critical Patch Update is due, and the company is releasing fixes for security vulnerabilities across most of its enterprise products, addressing a host of remotely exploitable flaws. This comes a little...

FEMA: State, Local Officials Not Prepared to Respond to Cyberattack

A report by the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA finds that state and local government officials in the U.S. are pessimistic about their ability to respond to a cyberattacks. The National Preparedness Report NPR was commissioned by the Obama Administration. It found that, although the...

Serious Remote PHP Bug Accidentally Disclosed

A serious remote-code execution vulnerability in PHP was accidentally disclosed Wednesday, leading to fears of an outbreak of attacks on sites that were built using vulnerable versions of PHP. The bug has been known privately since January when a team of researchers used it in a capture the flag...