Phishers Swim Around 2FA in Coinbase Account Heists

Threat actors are making their way around two-factor authentication 2FA and using other clever evasion tactics in a recently observed phishing campaign aimed at taking over Coinbase accounts to defraud users of their crypto balances. Attackers are using emails that spoofed the popular...

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...

SEC Filing Reveals Fortune 500 Firm Targeted in Ransomware Attack

Fortune 500 integrated services firm R.R.Donnelley & Sons RRD is the latest victim of the hacking collective known as the Conti Group. According to regulatory disclosures RRD was the victim of a network breach that resulted in stolen data in December. RRD, a global firm with 33,000 employees,...

‘Malsmoke’ Exploits Microsoft’s E-Signature Verification

Threat actors are exploiting Microsoft’s digital signature verification to steal user credentials and other sensitive information by delivering the ZLoader malware, which previously has been used to distribute Ryuk and Conti ransomware, researchers have found. Researchers at Check Point Research...

Google Takes Down Glupteba Botnet; Files Lawsuit Against Operators

Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG has disrupted the blockchain-enabled botnet known as Glupteba, which is made up of around 1 million compromised Windows and internet of things IoT devices. In tandem, Google also filed a lawsuit against the botnet’s operators. Glupteba, already a formidable...

The Best Ransomware Response, According to the Data

Ransomware has become part of the cost of doing business, and driving down that cost can be the difference between recovery and catastrophe. A data analysis from Fox-IT, part of NCC Group, offers some best practices for how to minimize the fallout of a ransomware attack, after creating a dataset ...

Threat Actors Abuse Discord to Push Malware

Threat actors are abusing the core features of the popular Discord digital communication platform to persistently deliver various types of malware—in particular remote access trojans RATs that can take over systems–putting its 150 million users at risk, researchers have found. RiskIQ and CheckPoi...

How to Prevent Account Takeovers in 2021

Data breaches and hacking put internet users at risk of account takeover, if cybercriminals successfully gain access to valid login credentials. There are reckoned to be in excess of 8.4 million discrete passwords currently circulating online, more than 3.5 billion of which are tied to active...

The Overlooked Security Risks of The Cloud

Cloud networking has done more to change computing as we know it than any other innovation in the last 15 years. It’s enabled small companies to quickly deploy an online presence, large companies to scale as demand ebbs and flows, and in a post-COVID world, it provides the foundation for a remote...

A Tale of Two Hacks: From SolarWinds to Microsoft Exchange

The past four months have exposed two high-profile attacks, which both had pundits declaring them the “worst-ever” and “unprecedented.” They shared other similarities – both attacked businesses rather than individuals, and affected tens of thousands of organizations. But that is where the...

Defending Against State and State-Sponsored Threat Actors

Security threats from states and state-sponsored actors have been around since before the field of cybersecurity was defined. They have now evolved to cyberspace, and present unique challenges for defenders. While there are fundamental differences between activist and criminal activity, and those...

Code42 Incydr Series: Bringing Shadow IT into the light with Code42 Incydr

Shadow IT is hardly a hidden threat to security professionals. Gartner was warning, way back in 2016, that 1 in 3 successful attacks experienced by enterprises would come from the use of unsanctioned apps by 2020. Code42’s Data Exposure Report just about proves Gartner’s prediction, showing that...

Rana Android Malware Updates Allow WhatsApp, Telegram IM Snooping

Researchers have discovered new samples of a previously discovered Android malware, which is believed to be linked to the APT39 Iranian cyberespionage threat group. The new variant comes with new surveillance capabilities – including the ability to snoop on victims’ Skype, Instagram and WhatsApp...

Healthcare 2021: Cyberattacks to Center on COVID-19 Spying, Patient Data

Sophisticated cybercriminals have been trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine research – and researchers say there’s more of that to come going into 2021. Intellectual property theft will join ransomware, cloud-stored patient data theft and advanced phishing efforts as the main hallmarks of...

Smart Doorbells on Amazon, eBay, Harbor Serious Security Issues

Researchers have found serious security and privacy issues in 11 different smart doorbells, distributed via online marketplaces like Amazon and eBay, which could be exploited by attackers to physically switch off the devices. Smart doorbells, which connect to a smartphone and alert users when...

Attackers Target Porn Site Goers in ‘Malsmoke’ Zloader Attack

Cybercriminals are tricking adult website visitors – including sites such as bravoporn.com and xhamster.com – in malvertising attacks that redirect victims to malicious websites serving up malware. The campaign, which is part of a larger malvertising effort dubbed “malsmoke”, has been tracked...

Overlay Malware Targets Windows Users with a DLL Hijack Twist

Brazilians are being warned of a new overlay malware targeting Windows users in order to siphon victims’ financial data and drain their bank accounts. Researchers say what the malware, dubbed Vizom, lacks in sophistication it makes up for in its creative abuse of the Windows ecosystem. Trusteer, ...

Emotet Emails Strike Thousands of DNC Volunteers

On Thursday, hundreds of U.S. organizations were targeted by an Emotet spear-phishing campaign, which sent thousands of emails purporting to be from the Democratic National Committee and recruiting potential Democratic volunteers. Emotet has historically utilized a variety of lure themes leveragi...

Intel Adds Anti-Malware Protection in Tiger Lake CPUs

Intel’s upcoming class of mobile CPUs, code named “Tiger Lake,” will feature a long anticipated security layer, called Control-flow Enforcement Technology CET, which aims to protect against common malware attacks. CET protects against attacks on processors’ control flow, which refers to the order...

GoDaddy Hack Breaches Hosting Account Credentials

UPDATE GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, is warning customers that attackers may have obtained their web hosting account credentials. An “unauthorized individual” was able to access users’ login details in an intrusion that the company said took place back in October — the compa...

New Kaiji Botnet Targets IoT, Linux Devices

A new botnet has been infecting internet of things IoT devices and Linux-based servers, to then leverage them in distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. The malware, dubbed Kaiji, has been written from scratch, which researchers say is “rare in the IoT botnet landscape” today. Kaiji, which wa...

Airplane Hack Exposes Weaknesses of Alert and Avoidance Systems

The aircraft safety system known as the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System TCAS can be coerced into sending an airplane on a mid-air rollercoaster ride – much to the horror of those onboard. Researchers were able to cobble together an effective method for spoofing the TCAS using a $10...

Adobe Fixes 17 Critical Acrobat, Photoshop and Brackets Flaws

Adobe Systems is stomping out 17 critical vulnerabilities in Acrobat Reader, Photoshop and Brackets, which could lead to arbitrary code execution if exploited. Overall, Adobe released patches – as part of its regularly-scheduled updates – addressing 25 CVEs across various products, including its...

Nine NAS Bugs Open LenovoEMC, Iomega Devices to Attack

Lenovo is warning of nine vulnerabilities rated “high” and impacting 20 separate network attached storage NAS devices sold by the company, including its LenovoEMC, Iomega and its Lenovo-branded NAS devices. By exploiting one of several command-injection vulnerabilities in the devices’ operating...

ThreatList: Malware Samples Targeting IoT More Than Double in 2018

It’s no secret that connected devices are posing a security threat in the commercial, consumer and industrial worlds. A fresh report on this expanding threat landscape shows that attacks are accelerating, with MikroTik routers, Telnet password-cracking and the Mirai botnet dominating the...

Fresh Approach to WiFi Cracking Uses Packet-Sniffing

Legacy WiFi just became a little less safe, according to Jens Steube, the developer of the password-cracking tool known as Hashcat. He has found a faster, easier way to crack some WPA/WPA2-protected WiFi networks. Hackers have compromised the WPA/WPA2 encryption protocols in the past, but it’s an...

Rowhammer Variant ‘RAMpage’ Targets Android Devices All Over Again

Researchers have found a new variation of the Rowhammer attack technique they have dubbed RAMpage. The vulnerability could allow an adversary to create an exploit to gain administrative control over targeted Android smartphones and tablets. The flaw impacts Android devices dating back to 2012...

Foscam Issues Patches For Vulnerabilities in IP Cameras

Foscam is urging customers to update their security cameras after researchers found three vulnerabilities in that could enable a bad actor to gain root access knowing only the camera’s IP address. The vulnerability trifecta includes an arbitrary file-deletion bug, a shell command-injection flaw a...

Cisco Warns of Three Critical Bugs in Digital Network Architecture Platform

Cisco Systems patched three bugs on Wednesday that are rated critical, tied to its Digital Network Architecture DNA Center platform. Cisco also warned of four additional vulnerabilities – each rated high. All of the vulnerabilities have available patches for mitigation. All three of the critical...

Facebook Fallout Continues as Politicians Call For Legal Action

A legal backlash against Facebook’s latest controversy is starting to gain momentum. Lawmakers from around the country are calling for investigations into Facebook after the company revealed that the data of 50 million platform users had leaked through a third-party app. Both New York and...

19-Year-Old TLS Vulnerability Weakens Website Crypto

A vulnerability called ROBOT, first identified in 1998, has resurfaced. Impacted are leading websites ranging from Facebook to Paypal, which are vulnerable to attackers that could decrypt encrypted data and sign communications using the sites’ own private encryption key. The vulnerability is foun...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in LibXL Library Open Door to RCE Attacks

Researchers have identified seven vulnerabilities in the LibXL C library, used to read Excel files. Each of the vulnerabilities are rated 8.8 in severity on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System scale. Attackers could exploit each of the vulnerabilities and perform remote code execution attacks...

Windows Search Bug Worth Watching, and Squashing

Between Conficker and WannaCry, there was a nearly a decade when network worms went dark. WannaCry changed that, riding into enterprises globally on the coattails of a leaked nation-state exploit. In the months since the May 12 ransomware attack, vendors, researchers and network admins have been ...

Juniper Issues Security Alert Tied to Routers and Switches

Juniper Networks warned customers Thursday of a high-risk vulnerability in the GD graphics library that could allow a remote attacker to take control of systems running certain versions of the Junos OS. The alert was in conjunction with a warning from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team...

Subtitle Hack Leaves 200 Million Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution

A proof of concept attack using malicious video subtitle files reveals how adversaries can execute remote code on PCs, Smart TVs and mobile devices using popular video players and services such as VLC Media Player, Kodi, Stremio and Popcorn Time. “This is a brand new attack vector. We haven’t see...

Cisco Patches IOS XE Vulnerability Leaked in Vault 7 Dump

Cisco released an update this week that addresses a vulnerability in software running in more than 300 of its switches. The flaw was disclosed among the WikiLeaks Vault 7 dump of alleged CIA offensive hacking tools, and proof-of-concept exploit code exists that targets the vulnerability. Cisco sa...

Critical Moodle Vulnerability Could Lead to Server Compromise

A critical vulnerability in Moodle, an open source PHP-based learning management system deployed across scores of schools and universities, could expose the server its running on to compromise. Tens of thousands of universities worldwide, including the California State University system, the...

Inside the RIG Exploit Kit

Today’s most prolific exploit kit is RIG, which has filled a void left by the departure of Angler, Neutrino and Nuclear. That has made it public enemy No. 1 when it comes exploit kits. Now Cisco Talos researchers are hoping to shed new light into the ongoing development of the potent EK in hopes ...

Emergency iOS Update Patches Zero Days Used by Government Spyware

Apple rushed an emergency iOS update today after the discovery of three zero-day vulnerabilities used by governments to spy on the activities of human rights activists and journalists. The zero days, called Trident, allow an attacker to take complete control of an iPhone or iPad with just one...

Google Patches Two High-Severity Flaws in Chrome

Google on Wednesday updated the Chrome browser for the third time since the start of May. Chrome 51.0.2704.79 for Windows, Mac, and Linux patched 15 vulnerabilities. It also paid out $14,000 in bounties to prolific bug hunters Mariusz Mlynski $7,500 and Rob Wu $6,500. The previous Chrome update o...

December 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Forgive your local Windows admin if they’re a little shy on holiday cheer in the coming days. Blame instead Microsoft for foisting upon them on Tuesday 71 security patches, including two for vulnerabilities in Office and the Windows kernel currently under attack. Microsoft also issued a separate...

Google Chrome 45 Security Patches, Bug Bounty Awards

Tuesday turned out to be a busy day for browser makers. The three major vendors in the space—Google; Mozilla; and Microsoft—joined arms and announced their intent to stop support for the weakened RC4 encryption algorithm starting early next year. Google, having already announced it would pause...

Oracle Patches VENOM Vulnerability

Oracle, whose virtualization software VirtualBox is among those affected by the VENOM vulnerability, on Saturday joined the litany of VM providers that have patched the bug. Oracle was one of the first vendors notified by Crowdstrike, whose researcher Jason Geffner found the bug and disclosed it...

ICU Project ICU4C Library Vulnerabilities Patched

Multitudes of software packages that make use of the ICU Project C/C++ and Java libraries may need to update after a pair of memory-based vulnerabilities were discovered and subsequently patched. Version 55.1 of the ICU Project ICU4C library, released yesterday, addresses separate heap-based buff...

Adobe Begins Patching Third Flash Player Zero Day

Adobe announced today that it will begin distributing a patch for the third and most recent zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player. Version 16.0.0.305 will be distributed to users who have enabled auto-update. Adobe said it expects to have a manual update available tomorrow. “We are working with...

Another Flash Zero Day Emerges

For the third time in the last couple of weeks, Adobe is dealing with a zero day vulnerability in Flash. The company is working on a patch for another Flash bug that is being exploited in drive-by download attacks. Adobe officials released an advisory Monday warning users that attackers are...

Angler Exploit Kit Adds New Flash Exploit

Exploit kit authors are nothing if not opportunistic, and they know a prime opportunity when they see one. Adobe Flash bugs fit that description nicely, and the people behind the Angler exploit kit already are exploiting one of the Flash bugs patched last week in the kit’s arsenal. This is a comm...

November 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Microsoft today provided its Patch Tuesday advanced notification, giving IT managers a head’s up about 16 bulletins that are scheduled to be delivered next week, including five rated critical for remote code execution and privilege escalation issues. The heavy patch load is an anomaly for 2014,...

June 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates

As expected, Microsoft delivered a patch today for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 that was disclosed by HP’s Zero Day Initiative three weeks ago, six months after it was reported to the ZDI. The IE8 patch, MS14-035, is included in a cumulative Internet Explorer rollup that patche...

Second NSA Crypto Tool Found in RSA BSafe

A team of academics released a study on the maligned Dual EC DRBG algorithm used in RSA Security’s BSafe and other cryptographic libraries that includes new evidence that the National Security Agency used a second cryptographic tool alongside Dual EC DRBG in Bsafe to facilitate spying. Allegation...