Download: The 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey Results

The 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey was an online survey published to gain insight into the details related to cybersecurity compensation. It was completed by over 1,500 security professional respondents. Today you can access the aggregated and analyzed 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey Results a...

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...

Insecure Database Exposes Millions of Private SMS Messages

Tens of millions of SMS messages have been found on an unprotected database, putting the private data of hundreds of millions of people in the United States at risk for theft or exposure and leaving a communications company open for potential intrusion, security researchers discovered. Noam Rotem...

Data-Enriched Profiles on 1.2B People Exposed in Gigantic Leak

An open Elasticsearch server has exposed the rich profiles of more than 1.2 billion people to the open internet. First found on October 16 by researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia, the database contains more than 4 terabytes of data. It consists of scraped information from social media source...

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...

McDonalds-Themed Facebook Ads Serve Up Banking Trojans

The Mispadu banking trojan is using a McDonalds malvertising tactic to ultimately steal payment-card data and online banking information. Written in Delphi, Mispadu targets Brazil and Mexico, uses pop-up windows and contains backdoor functionality. According to researchers at ESET, Mispadu spread...

Consumer Data Privacy Rights: Emerging Tech Blurs Lines

LAS VEGAS – From drones to facial recognition, new technology applications are introducing unique consumer privacy issues for civil society — and U.S. lawmakers and legal teams are struggling to keep up. Privacy is a fundamental human right for consumers, but new ways in which data is collected a...

Eye Clinic Breach Reveals Data of 20,000 Patients

A Utah eye clinic is in the process of informing 20,000 patients that they were the victims of a data breach that happened a year and a half ago and linked patients to a scam involving PayPal. The breach at the Utah Valley Eye Center in Provo, Utah, that exposed patient emails once again highligh...

ThreatList: Sharp Increase in Fake Mobile Apps Impersonating Legit Ones

Malicious mobile apps that try to dupe consumers by mimicking reputable apps is a persistent problem that’s on the rise, making an app store’s commitment to security a key factor to consider for mobile users who want to avoid these threats, according to a new report. The number of blacklisted app...

Phishing Attacks Enlist Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure in Ploys

Recent phishing campaigns have been spotted boosting their anti-detection efforts by using Amazon Web Services to host their landing pages. It’s a sign of a nascent trend towards using public cloud storage, according to researchers. The attackers are also layering on various obfuscation technique...

Security Vulnerabilities Are Increasingly Putting Kids at Risk

LAS VEGAS – IoT devices are increasingly coming into the hands of children – from connected watches, to Amazon Echo smart speakers – but security experts worry that these are opening up children’s data to future privacy breaches. The latest example of this fear was seen at Black Hat 2019, where...

Google and ARM Tackle Android Bugs with Memory-Tagging

Aiming at improving the security of the Android ecosystem, Google has partnered up with mobile silicon-maker ARM to implement a hardware-based bug detection tool specifically for memory-safety vulnerabilities. Dubbed the memory-tagging extension MTE, the feature helps mitigate these kinds of bugs...

Brand-New SystemBC Proxy Malware Spotted Using SOCKS5 for Stealth

A previously undocumented proxy malware, dubbed “SystemBC,” is upping the stealth game by using SOCKS5 to evade detection. It’s being distributed by the Fallout and RIG exploit kits EKs, according to researchers. Proofpoint researchers said on Thursday that in the most recently tracked example, t...

Zoom Zero-Day Bug Opens Mac Users to Webcam Hijacking

A zero-day vulnerability in the Zoom client for Mac allows a malicious website to hijack a user’s web camera without their permission. Up to 4 million workers that use the Zoom for Mac web-and videoconferencing service are at risk from a flaw in the collaboration client CVE-2019–13450, according ...

D-Link Cloud Camera Flaw Gives Hackers Access to Video Stream

D-Link has only partially patched critical flaws affecting its consumer WiFi camera, which allow hackers to intercept and view recorded video. They also allow attackers to manipulate the device’s firmware, according to security researchers. The camera in question is D-Link’s DCS-2132L cloud camer...

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...

Intel Smart Sound Tech Vulnerable to Three High-Severity Bugs

Intel issued three fixes for bugs that could allow a local attacker to execute code on Intel Core and Atom processor-based PCs. The vulnerabilities are tied to versions of its own Intel Smart Sound Technology, used to boost audio processing for tasks such as voice commands and interactions with...

Massive Malspam Campaign Finds a New Vector for FlawedAmmyy RAT

A widespread spam campaign from the well-known financial criminal group TA505 is spreading the FlawedAmmyy RAT using a brand-new vector: Weaponized PDFs containing malicious SettingContent-ms files. The SettingContent-ms file format was introduced in Windows 10; it allows a user to create...

Samba Patches Two Critical Vulnerabilities in Server Software

Two critical patches for the free networking software Samba were released Tuesday, addressing vulnerabilities that could allow an unprivileged remote attacker to launch a denial of service attack against servers running the software or allow an adversary to change user passwords, including the...

Google Detects and Boots Tizi Spyware Off Google Play

The Google Play Protect team said it identified a new strain of Android spyware called Tizi found inside several apps previously available via the Google Play marketplace. The recent discovery triggered a wider investigation by Google who said apps infected by the Tizi malware date back to 2015...

Fuze Patches TPN Handset Vulnerabilties

Fuze, a maker of popular enterprise-grade voice-over-IP handsets, earlier this year patched three vulnerabilities that exposed user account information and enabled unauthorized authentication. The issues were made public today by researchers at Rapid7 who privately disclosed the flaws on April 12...

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...

High Severity BIND Vulnerability Can Lead to A Crash

The Internet Systems Consortium patched the BIND domain name system this week, addressing a remotely exploitable vulnerability it considers high severity and said could lead to a crash. The issue affects servers that use both the DNS64 and RPZ function simultaneously. DNS64 is a mechanism for...

Docker Patches Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Docker has patched a privilege escalation vulnerability CVE-2016-9962 that could lead to container escapes, allowing a hacker to affect operations of a host from inside a container. The vulnerability is rated high severity by some Linux distributions such as Arch Linux, which traces the problem t...

PowerWare Ransomware Uses PowerShell for Fileless Infections

Attackers are not through testing the limits of what they can do with new features in ransomware samples. That latest found in the wild is called PowerWare and it was discovered a week ago targeting a company in the healthcare industry, researchers at Carbon Black told Threatpost. What sets...

Angler Exploit Kit, Bedep Malware Inflating Video Views

A new sort of hacktivism emerged last week when experts from Trustwave published new research revealing that attackers are using the Angler exploit kit and the Bedep Trojan in order to drive artificial views to politically controversial videos. The motivation for the scheme, it appears, is to...

Oracle Patch Update Delivers 98 Fixes

Released alongside patches from Microsoft and Adobe yesterday, Oracle’s regularly scheduled Critical Patch Update fixed 98 issues across a handful of products, including Oracle’s Database, Fusion Middleware, Java SE, and MySQL, to name a few. One of the most pressing issues the update resolves is...

POS Service Confirms Goodwill Breach Lasted 18 Months

Third-party payment vendor C&K Systems released further details this week regarding a breach that affected its systems for 18 months and went on to affect customers who shopped at Goodwill, in addition to two unnamed retailers. The company provided an update on the breach via a press release Mond...

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...

VMware Patches Apache Struts Flaws in vCOPS

VMware has patched several serious security vulnerabilities in its vCenter Operations Center Management suite, one of which could lead to remote code execution on vulnerable machines. All of the vulnerabilities that the company patched lie in the Apache Struts Java application framework, and the...

Threatpost News Wrap, June 23, 2014

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the latest security news, including the possible fork of TrueCrypt, Microsoft’s new information sharing platform, the FBI’s cybercrime task force and the US team’s crushing tie with Portugal. Download: digitalunderground156.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Phishing for Fanboys with Phony iPhone 5 Images

There is no such thing as a trivial detail when it comes to the impending release of an Apple product and scammers are well aware of this. A recent attack is exploiting the public’s fascination with all things Apple and the ubiquitous interest in anything iPhone 5-related with an email phishing...

PHP Group Set to Release Another Patch for CVE-2012-1823 Flaw

The PHP Group on Tuesday is planning to release another new version of the scripting language that’s designed to address, again, the remotely exploitable flaw that came to light last week. That bug, which requires no authentication, was supposed to have been fixed in new releases pushed out on Ma...

Mozilla to Fix Libpng Bug in Firefox and Thunderbird

Mozilla is preparing to release a fix for a serious vulnerability in both Firefox and Thunderbird that could result in remote code execution. The update comes just a few days after the company released version 10.0.1 of Firefox, fixing a separate security bug. The new update for Firefox and...

Google Fixes 30 Bugs in Chrome, Pays $17K in Bounties

Google has fixed 30 bugs in version 13.0.782.107, the latest build of its Chrome browser, pushed to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux today. 14 of the bugs are deemed high-risk, including cross-origin script injection, HTML range handling and URI handling issues. Nine of the bugs are...

Microsoft Plugs IE Drive-By Download Flaws

Microsoft today shipped a cumulative Internet Explorer update with patches for 10 security holes, including a drive-by download vulnerability that’s already being used in malware attacks. The critical MS08-018 update patches security holes that could lead to code execution attacks on all versions...

Recently Patched Adobe PDF Flaw Being 'Actively Exploited'

Malicious hackers have pounced on a newly patched Adobe PDF Reader vulnerability to plant Trojan downloaders on tardy Windows users. According to researchers in Microsoft’s malware protection center, the vulnerability CVE-2010-0188 was patched less than a month ago, proving that malicious hackers...

Attacks Continuing Against IE Flaw as Microsoft Preps Patch

Microsoft officials said on Sunday that they are continuing to investigate the attacks that are exploiting the unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer, but that the attacks right now are limited to specifically targeted activity against enterprise networks. The company said that it doesn’t look like...

U.K. Water Supplier Hit with Clop Ransomware Attack

A U.K. water supplier suffered a disruption in its corporate IT systems Monday as a result of a cyber-attack but claims that its water supply was not affected. Meanwhile, the alleged attack perpetrator—the Clop ransomware group—claimed the attack was on another, larger water utility, which for it...

Zero-Day ‘Follina’ Bug Lays Microsoft Office Open to Attack

UPDATE A zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office allows adversaries to run malicious code on targeted systems via a flaw a remote Word template feature. The warning comes from Japanese security vendor Nao Sec, which tweeted a warning about the zero day over the weekend. It’s unclear if the...

Firms Push for CVE-Like Cloud Bug System

Big gaps exist in the 22-year-old Common Vulnerability and Exposures CVE system that do not address dangerous flaws in cloud services that drive millions of apps and backend services. Too often, cloud providers needlessly expose customers to risk by not sharing the details of bugs discovered on...

Web Filtering & Compliances for Wi-Fi Providers

The demand for public Wi-Fi is increasing constantly due to the increase of smartphone owners and remote workers. Researchers at VPNMentor say that there are approximately 549 million Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide. Another survey by Semantic found that 87 percent of U.S. consumers have used the readil...

‘Be Afraid:’ Massive Cyberattack Downs Ukrainian Gov’t Sites

Cyberattackers brought down around 70 Ukrainian government websites on Friday, defacing the site of the foreign ministry with a message to “Be afraid and expect the worst.” The huge attack hit on Friday, unfolding hours after Russia and Western allies wrapped up fruitless talks intended to...

Researchers Flag 300K Banking Trojan Infections from Google Play in 4 Months

Overcoming Google Play app restrictions, attackers have successfully racked up more than 300,000 banking trojan installations over just the past four months in the official Android app marketplace. Researchers from Threat Fabric reported that these threat groups have honed their ability to use...

War-Driving Technique Allows Wi-Fi Password-Cracking at Scale

War-driving – the process of driving around mapping residential Wi-Fi networks in hopes of finding a vulnerability to exploit – can still pay off for attackers, apparently: A CyberArk researcher recently found he could easily slice open about 70 percent of Wi-Fi network passwords in one Tel Aviv...

Keep Attackers Out of VPNs: NSA, CISA Offer Guidance

Unsecured VPNs can be a hot mess: Just ask Colonial Pipeline which got pwned by the REvil ransomware crooks with an old VPN password or the 87,000 at least Fortinet customers whose credentials for unpatched SSL-VPNs were posted online earlier this month. Vulnerabilities in VPN servers are like...

Microsoft Spills 38 Million Sensitive Data Records Via Careless Power App Configs

For months, Microsoft’s Power Apps portals exposed personal data tied to 38 million records ranging from COVID-19 vaccination status, Social Security numbers and email addresses. Consumers most affected by what is being called a “platform issue” are those doing business with American Airlines,...

Tracking Malware and Ransomware Domains in 2021

In 2021, the threat of ransomware has loomed large. In many ways, it’s exactly what cybersecurity experts expected and predicted after the major cyber attacks of 2020—including hospital ransomware attacks on a healthcare industry hard-hit by both ransomware and Covid-19. But in other ways, this...

MacOS Targeted in WildPressure APT Malware Campaign

Threat actors known as WildPressure have added a macOS malware variant to their latest campaign targeting energy sector businesses, while enlisting compromised WordPress websites to carry out attacks. Novel malware, initially identified in March 2020 and dubbed Milum, has now been retooled with a...

Cloud Cryptomining Swindle in Google Play Rakes in Cash

Bogus cryptomining apps for Android available for download on Google Play are estimated to have scammed more than 93,400 victims to date, researchers said, stealing at least $350,000. According to Lookout, the apps – categorized into “BitScam” and “CloudScam” versions – advertise themselves as...