Data Breach Today
AUGUST 31, 2022
Federal Law Enforcement Agents Offer Tips on Improving Detection, Rapid Response Ransomware gets the headlines, and phishing sets off the most alerts, but business email compromise costs enterprises the most - more than $43 billion since 2016. U.S. Secret Service agents Stephen Dougherty and Michael Johns discuss the criticality of rapid detection and response.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 30, 2022
Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their
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The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 29, 2022
Web application attacks directed at organizations’ web and mail servers continue to take the lead in cybersecurity incidents. Related: Damage caused by ‘business logic’ hacking. This is according to Verizon’s latest 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report ( DBIR ). In the report’s findings, stolen credentials and exploited vulnerabilities are the top reasons for web breaches.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 30, 2022
A group of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered malicious plugins on tens of thousands of WordPress sites. A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology has analyzed the backups of more than 400,000 unique web servers and discovered 47,337 malicious plugins installed on 24,931 unique WordPress websites. The experts studied the evolution of CMS plugins in the production web servers dating back to 2012, to do this they developed an automated framework na
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Security Affairs
AUGUST 30, 2022
Google this week launched a new bug bounty program that covers the open source projects of the IT giant. Google launched a new bug bounty program as part of the new Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) that covers the source projects of the IT giant. The company will pay up to $31,337 for vulnerabilities in its projects, while its lowest payout will be $100.
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The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 29, 2022
Penetration testing – pen tests – traditionally have been something companies might do once or twice a year. Related : Cyber espionage is on the rise. Bad news is always anticipated. That’s the whole point. The pen tester’s assignment is to seek out and exploit egregious, latent vulnerabilities – before the bad guys — thereby affording the organization a chance to shore up its network defenses.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 30, 2022
This is good news: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Kochava, a large location data provider, for allegedly selling data that the FTC says can track people at reproductive health clinics and places of worship, according to an announcement from the agency. “Defendant’s violations are in connection with acquiring consumers’ precise geolocation data and selling the data in a format that allows entities to track the consumers’ movements to and from sensitive locatio
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 30, 2022
Getting a Grip on Third-Party Access They’re necessary contributors to the business ecosystem, but there’s risk associated with third-party remote access, including bad actors lurking around every access point.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Uptycs researchers recently spotted a new Linux ransomware that appears to be under active development. The Uptycs Threat Research team recently observed an Executable and Linkable Format ( ELF ) ransomware which encrypts the files inside Linux systems based on the given folder path. We observed that the dropped README note matches exactly with the DarkAngels ransomware README note (see Figure 1).
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WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Hackers can use Microsoft’s Power Automate to push out ransomware and key loggers—if they get machine access first.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 31, 2022
Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported “breach” at Ubiquiti. My sole source for that reporting was the person who has since been indicted by federal prosecutors for his alleged wrongdoing – which includes providing false information to the press. As a result of the new information that has been provided to me, I no longer have faith in the veracity of my source or the information he provided to me.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 31, 2022
Criminal Underground Briefly Assisted But Quickly Grew Bored, Researchers Find The role and impact of criminal hackers and volunteer hacktivists in the Russia-Ukraine war has been vastly overestimated, a team of cybersecurity researchers report, based not just on charting distributed denial-of-service attacks and defacements but also on interviews with participants.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 30, 2022
Researchers spotted three campaigns delivering multiple malware, including ModernLoader, RedLine Stealer, and cryptocurrency miners. Cisco Talos researchers observed three separate, but related, campaigns between March and June 2022 that were delivering multiple malware, including the ModernLoader bot (aka Avatar bot), RedLine info-stealer and cryptocurrency miners to victims.
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 30, 2022
In the last two weeks of the war, an ad hoc team armed with group chats, QR codes, and satellite maps launched a mad dash to save imperiled Afghan allies.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Threat hunters can help build defenses as they work with offensive security teams to identify potential threats and build stronger threat barriers.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How SMS Tokens Put Customers in Danger During Twilio Hack There’s been an unintended effect from Okta’s acquisition of customer identity giant Auth0. It confused its own sales force with similar CIAM products. Salespeople quit. Okta CEO says the company will work on better sales integration of Auth0.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 28, 2022
Leaked documents show the surveillance firm Intellexa offering exploits for iOS and Android devices for $8 Million. Intellexa is an Israeli surveillance firm founded by Israeli entrepreneur Tal Dilian, it offers surveillance and hacking solution to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The Vx-undergroud researchers shared some images of several confidential documents that appear to be the commercial offer of Intellect.
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WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 31, 2022
Prepaid phones are looking good as privacy worries peak.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 31, 2022
Researchers at Check Point warn that attackers based in Turkey are distributing cryptomining malware via free software distribution websites, including Softpedia and uptodown. The malicious apps appear to be legitimate, but have malware packaged within them.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 27, 2022
'Unusual Activity' By Third-Party Service Provider to Blame Food delivery firm DoorDash says its customers and employees have been impacted by the phishing attack on its third-party service provider. DoorDash says it experienced "unusual and suspicious activity" on its third-party vendor's computer network that was a victim of a phishing campaign.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Researchers attribute the Raspberry Robin malware to the Russian cybercrime group known as Evil Corp group. IBM Security X-Force researchers discovered similarities between a component used in the Raspberry Robin malware and a Dridex malware loader, which was part of the malicious operations of the cybercrime gang Evil Corp. Raspberry Robin is a Windows worm discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Red Canary, the malware propagates through removable USB devices.
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WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 29, 2022
Anti-Putin media network February Morning has become a central player in the underground fight against the Kremlin.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 31, 2022
As threat actors look for ways to evade detection by security solutions, the use of cloud applications has seen a material jump in the last 12 months, according to new data.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Amit Yoran Shares Why Tenable Has Doubled Down on Analytics and OT Security Tenable wants to help the cybersecurity industry move away from traditional vulnerability management focused on giving customers a list of vulnerabilities. Instead, CEO Amit Yoran wants to help customers understand their exposure and how they can effectively manage and reduce risk.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Researchers discovered that the infrastructure used in Cisco hack was the same used to target a Workforce Management Solution firm. Researchers from cybersecurity firm eSentire discovered that the attack infrastructure used in recent Cisco hack was also used to attack a top Workforce Management corporation in in April 2022. The experts also speculate that the attack was orchestrated by a threat actor known as mx1r, who is an alleged member of the Evil Corp affiliate cluster dubbed UNC2165.
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WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 27, 2022
Plus: An Iranian hacking tool steals inboxes, LastPass gets hacked, and a deepfake scammer targets the crypto world.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 31, 2022
After suffering a taste of their own medicine as part of a response effort from victim organization Entrust, LockBit appears to have bounced back even stronger than before.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
United Network of Organ Sharing Security and IT Management Under Scrutiny The national network for connecting medical centers with donated human organs faces doubts about its ability to secure data amid concerns about its IT infrastructure. A federal watchdog has reviewed the Health Resources and Services Administration and United Network of Organ Sharing.
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