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By Lee Smith 2 min read Learn how Logit.io responded to the CVE-2021-4422 and CVE-2021-45046 security vulnerability This blog post provides a summary of CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 and provides details of the steps that have been taken by Logit.io to mitigate the exploitation of the vulnerability. Please be aware...
Mirai: A Botnet of Things In mid-September the journalist Brian Krebs, of krebsonsecurity.com fame, had his website taken down by one of the largest DDoS attacks ever observed. The attack clocked in at over 600Gbps, removing the website from the Internet for multiple days. Krebs, who is famous for shining a light in so...
Researchers say Necurs malware has been updated with a module that adds SOCKS/HTTP proxy and DDOS capabilities to this malware. Lloyds Banking Group fell victim to an attempted cyberattack earlier this month, which saw cybercriminals attempt to crash the online banking service over a two day period. The post Lloyds Ban...
The Necurs botnet is arguably one of the most successful distribution points for many different types of malware. That was until Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (MDCU), alongside other technology partners such as BitSight made a coordinated strike against it. 35 countries participated in the move shutting down its infr...
WiFi Access in Labitat The WiFi access point in Labitat has two SSIDs: - Labitat (free) - no encryption, anyone can get internet access this way. - encrypted with WPA2-EAP and authenticated by a Radius Server. - internal resources - servers, printers etc. is connected to this network - See below for info on how to get ...
With Channel 4 screening the first Twilight movie this week, interest in the latest part of the Vampire movie series – the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – has started to ramp up ahead of its November cinema release. But cybercriminals are now luring internet users with a Facebook scam, supposedly offering users free tic...
Recently most of the people used to collaborate through GitHub experienced a new kind of Denial Of Service Attack widly recognized as Main-On-The-Side Attack. The Github DDOS attack was driven by the State of China (NewYorkTime) with the intent to alert GitHub company about the violation of the Chinese censorship polic...
The most heated conversation during the week has been about the Advisory released by Microsoft on 7th September 2021 on the zero day vulnerability CVE-2021-40444 which affects MSHTML components of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 and many Windows Server versions as well. On successful exploitation, TrendMicro has identi...
Russia targets Ukrainian power grid The Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) and the cybersecurity firm ESET revealed that Russian-linked Sandworm hackers targeted high-voltage electrical substations in Ukraine with malware. The attackers targeted the substations with a novel variant of the Industroyer ...
Mainly been directed at organizations using Microsoft Office 365 cloud services and also targeting other service providers, the cyber campaign is said to have begun in mid-2019 and to be “almost certainly” ongoing Russian military hackers have been accused by the US and UK intelligence of being behind an ongoing cyber ...
A relative newcomer in 2022, the Black Basta ransomware group has wasted no time making a name for itself by upgrading its toolset and racking up its victim count around the world mere months since its ransomware was first detected. Learn more about this new ransomware and fortify your organization’s defenses against t...
Some of the most dangerous vulnerabilities facing companies today are the ones that, in any other world, would remain entirely unnoticed. Known as LOLBins – a reference to ‘Living off the Land’ binaries, rather than the practice of maniacally laughing at refuse receptacles – these vulnerabilities are naturally occurrin...
F5 FirePass 4100 prior 6.x multiple Cross Site Scripting scip AG Vulnerability ID 2352 (07/04/2006) F5 FirePass is an appliance which allows a remote communication between SSL-VPN endpoints. This secure connectivity to corporate applications and data is provided using a standard web browser. More Information are availa...
The cyber revolution is changing the characteristics of warfare. The land, sea, and air domains each have their own theorists who have attempted to provide the principals of warfare. Cyber does not have its own defining grand theorist, but perhaps it does not need one. Sun Tzu outlined an enduring framework for tactics...
While the LatentBot trojan has been around since 2013, Malwarebytes researchers warn the bot has grown rich in features and is still being actively maintained making it a serious threat. LatentBot is a multi-modular trojan written in Delphi. Its main executable is a persistent botnet agent that downloads additional mod...
November 24, 2019 Autoclickers are software that simulates clicking, i.e. user interaction, with a computing device. While they can have legitimate uses, threat actors have found several ways to improve and weaponize them. Cybersixgill has identified many autoclickers distributed on the underground, including some that...
November 17, 2023: Popular open source message broker, Apache ActiveMQ, whose basic function is to broker messages between different applications, has identified a critical flaw that is being actively exploited, allowing potentially undetected remote code execution (RCE). The critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023...
Login to the router is significant because it allows checking out the status of the network. Not only this, but we are also able to make some changes in the network’s setting. However, if someone wants to the log into the router, then it is vital to find out the router’s setting in the settings of pc. Majority of the p...
In some cases, this information is enough to buy an inexpensive item over the Internet, book a hotel room or make a purchase. Therefore, if possible, it is better not to transfer the card to third parties (for example, waiters in a restaurant can be offered to bring you a POS-terminal and make a payment with you, and n...
Just over a week ago, a security vulnerability was discovered in the log4j2 library, used by the vast majority of programs written in the Java programming language. According to publications in the area, such as IEEE Spectrum, Java is the second most used language by programmers . Although most programs developed in th...
Modify Authentication Process: Domain Controller Authentication Adversaries may patch the authentication process on a domain controller to bypass the typical authentication mechanisms and enable access to accounts. Malware may be used to inject false credentials into the authentication process on a domain controller wi...
Share this article on: The Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued a further advisory about Philips healthcare devices after nine vulnerabilities were self-reported to the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) by the A...
- Legion of Doom - Tips To Protect If malicious software had family reunions, each program would need a conference center to hold all its relatives. A prime example is a pernicious program known as Agobot, Gaobot, and Phatbot. This threat has become the most modified attack tool on the Internet, with antivirus firms de...
Check CVE Id Check CWE Id PrinterOn Enterprise 4.1.3 stores the Active Directory bind credentials using base64 encoding, which allows local users to obtain credentials for a domain user by reading the cps_config.xml file. CVSS Base Score An issue was discovered in PrinterOn Central Print Services (CPS) through 4.1.4. A...
Simple steps to protect yourself from the Conficker Worm |Article:TECH93179|||||Created: 2009-01-30|||||Updated: 2010-10-07|||||Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH93179| Worried about the Conficker worm? A few simple steps can protect you. Target: All users of Windows XP and Windows Vista. The Conficker worm,...
Social Network For CISO (Chief Information Security Officers) Machine learning is a powerful new tool that can be used for security applications (for example, to detect malware) but machine learning itself introduces many new attack surfaces. For example, attackers can control the output of machine learning models by m...
How to Remove the Virus? | Zoom Malware Removal Attackers are taking advantage of the increased popularity of the Zoom video conferencing service to distribute installers that are bundled with malware and adware applications. Knowing this, threat actors have started distributing Zoom client installers bundled with malw...
A method of cybercrime that is becoming more and more popular of late is to take over a victim’s email account and attack their contacts. That’s according to Barracuda VP email security Asaf Cidon, who says it’s simple – you’d be more inclined to open and act on an email from a colleague, friend, or at the very least s...
China targeted by new Android Trojan Bootkit attack hits '350,000 devices' Russian security researchers are warning about an Android Trojan called Oldboot that has infected 350,000 devices worldwide. According to this post at Dr Web, Oldboot has a characteristic that makes it hard to deal with: some of the Trojan's com...
Mirai botnet exploits CVE-2023-1389 to add TP-Link Archer A21 (AX1800) routers to DDoS attacks. During the Pwn2Own Toronto event in December 2022, two hacking teams exploited the vulnerability in different ways via:- - LAN interfaces - WAN interfaces In January 2023, the flaw was unveiled to TP-Link, and just after the...
W4500 Cyber Security What is Cyber Security? Cyber Security is the protection and hardening of computers and their software from attacks from malicious individuals called hackers. Cybersecurity is extremely important, now more than ever, because of the growing influence of global computing and internet access. Capture ...
This article, covers a recent tweet that displayed a vulnerability where a specific SSID name could permanently disable an iPhone's wifi functions. Luckily for user, @vm_call, a user in the replies found a way to fix the wifi. The article covers the process by which the SSID is processed and what the actual issue that ...
As I continue to learn penetration testing with different labs and scenarios, my exploit research of Linux Kernels usually returns a hit for Dirty Cow. So, I thought I would take the time to learn this exploit and share my notes. I had recently obtained a shell with another Linux vulnerability. However, I needed to esc...
Healthcare and Public Health Sector Notification Ransomware Activity Targeting the Healthcare and Public Health Sector (Update 1) This email is from the the Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness an...
Vulnerability identifier: #VU23413 Vulnerability risk: Low Exploitation vector: Local Exploit availability: No The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to potentially sensitive information. The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when the system does not properly validate certain length paramet...
Last Updated on August 7, 2021 by Admin 2 A user learns of an operating system vulnerability that would allow a hacker to access the computer. The user would like to keep the operating system up to date to prevent such vulnerabilities from occurring. Which of the following should the user configure? - Additional OS fea...
TCP SYN attack protection has been available on Windows platforms since Windows 2000, but by default is turned off. This has changed for the Windows 2003 SP1 release as SP1 enables SYN attack protection by default (which is a good thing). However, once enabled it affects how TCP connections are accepted. Specifically i...
Upon opening a Windows telecommunications program, it is not uncommon to receive an error stating that the modem cannot be initialized. This problem is typically caused by one of three things. First, if the user is using an external modem, the modem may not be getting power. Second, the telecommunications program could...
SQL Server fingerprinting can be a time consuming process. It involves a lot many trial and error methods to fingerprint the exact SQL Server version. Intentionally inserting an invalid input to obtain a typical error message or using certain alphabets that are unique for a certain server are two of the ways to possibl...
Worm:Win32/Vundo.A is a worm that spreads by copying itself to mapped drives in the computer. Vundo is also a family known to display pop-ups that are usually related to fake antivirus software. It may prevent security processes and features from functioning properly. Worm:Win32/Vundo.A copies itself as a DLL file with...
Texas Ransomware Attacks: MSP Industry On Edge Ransomware attacks that hit 22 Texas local governments may be tied back to the MSP (managed IT services provider) industry, according to the latest chatter about the attacks. If hackers penetrated an MSP and associated IT management software in the attacks, the news could ...
This series of blog entries will examine the topic of rootkits , what they are, and how they work. Rootkits are a utility component to bots and other malware that provides stealth and protection for the malware. They are also the reason that makes malware very difficult to remove and sometimes detect. Therefore they ar...
A new malware targeting Linux systems has been discovered and evidence suggests that it may have been used in several targeted attacks, according to analysts at Slovakian security firm ESET The malware is named “FontOnLake”, and the attackers claim to have been “particularly careful” in using this tool in their attacks...
As per the FBI’s Internet Crime Report 2021 (IC3-2021), spoofing and impersonification-based cybercrimes led to a loss of $82.2 million! Thus, businesses need to implement anti-spoofing solutions for better protection against heinous cybercrimes. Spoofing is the act of replicating a user to access a system unethically....
On October 28, 2020, a joint cybersecurity advisory was coauthored by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This advisory describes the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by cybercriminals agai...
Sonoff is a smart switch made for smart home automation. Sonoff devices connected to an MQTT broker can be manipulated by publishing certain special crafted messages. A sonoff device that is connected to our MQTT broker will subscribe to certain topics in order to get commands from its operator. We can utilize this fac...
Squid Proxy Port Scanner A misconfigured Squid proxy can allow an attacker to make requests on his behalf. This may give the attacker information about devices that he cannot reach but the Squid proxy can. For example, an attacker can make requests for internal IP addresses against a misconfigurated open Squid proxy ex...
This blog post reports on a malware attack in which a compromised version of Kakao Talk, an Android-based mobile messaging client, was sent in a highly-targeted email to a prominent individual in the Tibetan community. The malware is designed to send a user’s contacts, SMS message history, and cellular network location...
The history of cybercrime goes back to 1971 and the first computer virus called the Creeper which was created by Bob H. Thomas, who was a BBN engineer (Dalakov, Meltzer, and Phillips). BBN which stands for Bolt, Beranek and Newman, is now Raytheon BBN Technologies (“About”, Dalakov). A computer virus is a program that ...
Nmap can scan and sometimes successfully detect the running OS in the remote host. However, can nmap scan routers and switches? Most of them use an embedded system. Don't forget other network protocols, routing protocols, Cisco Discovery Protocol, SNMP, etc.., there's a ton of information on these types of devices and ...
Many people have grown accustomed to talking to their smart devices, asking them to read a text, play a song or set an alarm. But someone else might be secretly talking to them, too. Over the last two years, researchers in China and the United States have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are ...
CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery, aka one-click attack) is an attack that tricks a web browser into performing an unwanted action within an application, which a victim is logged into. If a victim visits a website created by an attacker, a request is sent secretly on behalf of a user to another server that performs a ma...
Beyond Security by Fortra is aware of a recently disclosed security issue related to the open-source Apache “Log4j2” utility (CVE-2021-44228). Log4j is a logging framework found in Java software. The flaw is tied to a failure by certain features in the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) which is used in configu...
Juniper Networks is betting that device-fingerprinting is a better way of dealing identifying and repulsing security attacks compared to the traditional method of blocking based on Internet protocol (IP) addresses. Upon detection of an attack, the Juniper tools will collect data about the attacking device in order to f...
(This is more a scenario than a story. Similar to #1, I suppose. Actually the more I look at itm the more I see that it is almost exactly the same. Ah, well. And, to be honest, my knoweldge of computer science and security is slight. I really have no idea what I am talking about.) The most amazing thing about the maker...
Organizations’ cybersecurity capabilities have improved over the past decade, mostly out of necessity. As their defenses get better, so do the methods, tactics, and techniques malicious actors devise to penetrate their environments. Instead of the standard virus or trojan, attackers today will deploy a variety of tools...
Attackers have exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in limited targeted attacks that affected South Korea. The exploit for the Microsoft Internet Explorer Scripting Engine Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2016-0189) appears to have been hosted on a web page, which suggests that attackers use...
Researchers have tracked new spyware – dubbed “PseudoManuscrypt” because it’s similar to “Manuscrypt” malware from the Lazarus advanced persistent threat (APT) group – that’s attempted to scribble itself across more than 35,000 targeted computers in 195 countries. Kaspersky researchers said in a Thursday report that fr...
A man-in-the-middle (MITM) cyberattack refers to a cybercriminal intercepting a digital interaction or exchange between individuals, systems or an individual and a system. During a MITM incident, a cybercriminal could either eavesdrop on an interaction or pretend to be a genuine participant in the exchange. MITM cybera...
CSRF - Cross Site Request Forgery A CSRF allows an attacker to make victims to perform actions that they do not intend to perform. - Cookie-based session handling. - No unpredictable request parameters. - Use the SameSitecookie attribute to : Strict: the browser will not include the cookie in any requests that originat...
Please Contact Us for questions about the acquisition, product support, or account management.here. Recently, a research paper published from Japanese academics demonstrated a newer, faster, and more reliable way to crack wireless networks that use WPA/TKIP protocols. In the best case, such a network can be compromised...
The use of deep learning for human identification and object detection is becoming ever more prevalent in the surveillance industry. These systems have been trained to identify human body's or faces with a high degree of accuracy. However, there have been successful attempts to fool these systems with different techniq...
Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20060419-wlse For Public Release 2006 April 19 15:00 UTC (GMT) There are two vulnerabilities that exist in the CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE). The first is a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that may allow an attacker to gain administrative privileges on the system. The sec...
17 Aug 2020 • 10 min read 17 Aug 2020 • 10 min read Credential stuffing abuses the most sensitive gateways of your website, such as the login and payment page. With bot's evolution, these attacks are getting more recurrent and sophisticated. Credential stuffing causes reputation and funding loss. It hurts online busine...
A new, large phishing campaign has actually been observed using adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) methods to get around safety and security protections as well as concession enterprise email accounts. ” It uses an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) strike technique efficient in bypassing multi-factor authentication,” Zscaler ...
This error appears when attempting to push out or perform a silent (command line) installation of the Remote Agent for Windows Servers (RAWS). You must reboot this system to complete a previous installation of Remote Agent. After rebooting, run the Setup program again. This error can occur even after a remote machine h...
Surviving the RAT Invasion: Strengtheni... RAT Invasion: Strengthening Your Defenses VPN Tunnel: A secure connection between two or more devices ... Trojans (RATs) are malicious software that enable unauthorized individuals to access and control computers remotely. These intrusions can compromise the security and Tor (...
The lead paragraph sets the stage: “The U.S. military needs to upgrade its psychological operations as adversaries take advantage of cyberspace to ramp up psychological warfare on the United States. Yet the military faces a difficult landscape to up its game, based on remarks by several current and former Special Opera...
Banking trojan DanaBot, which is known to target organizations across Europe, North America, and Australia, has been found being distributed with a ransomware module. Security researchers from CheckPoint came across this new variant in few of the recent DanaBot campaigns. According to the researchers, DanaBot also had ...
Cisco has at the time all over again fixed four earlier disclosed critical bugs in its Jabber movie conferencing and messaging application that had been inadequately dealt with, leaving its buyers prone to remote assaults. The vulnerabilities, if successfully exploited, could enable an authenticated, distant attacker t...
Access Risk Management Blog | Courion Target, the second largest retailer in the United States, recently revealed that it was the target of a data breach between Wednesday November 27 and Sunday December 15 which resulted in unauthorized access to data for 40 million credit and debit cards that included customer name, ...
Yes, artificial intelligence (AI) can indeed be hacked. As we delve deeper into the digital age, it's crucial to understand the vulnerabilities of AI systems and the potential threats they face. In response to these challenges, we see a range of AI tools being deployed to enhance security measures. The Vulnerability of...
ChatGPT's implications for cybersecurity A roundup and some potential future developments. OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT has huge implications for cybersecurity. I have seen security professionals do all manner of things using the tool, such as: Generating convincing phishing emails. Identifying methods to fix vulnerabil...
The Need for Runtime security in the cloud – Part #1 Introduction Log4shell type of vulnerabilities in software packages that were previously assumed safe (Log4J) keeps appearing everywhere. Open source tooling has widespread adoption amongst enterprises and yet most of these tools are supported by developers who are d...
In some of the request processed at the serlvet level only value event=continue is received. Other parameters of the form are not received. It appears that form contents are not posted or evenif posted only values from query string are taken i.e. it may be treated like a GET request rather than POST request. GET and PO...
Welcome to the Virus Encyclopedia of Panda Security. |worm, Trojan or backdoor. It is a group of critical vulnerabilities in the Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers on Windows Server 2008/Vista/2003/XP/2000 computers, which allows arbitrary code to be remotely executed and local privilege escalation to be gained in the vulnera...
Flame, the most complex piece of malware ever discovered, and which has been used to carry out cyber-espionage primarily in the Middle East, was controlled using servers in countries like the UK, Hong Kong and Switzerland over the last four years. Following an investigation prompted by the International Telecommunicati...
The use of wireless network technologies is so popular and trendy today. Accessing the internet or web has been more convenient and easier either by Wi-Fi or mobile data. And there are opportunities brought by these wireless network technologies in which can be advantageous to the organization. Employees who use your w...
Very High(1 user assessed) High(1 user assessed) Command and Control Upon installation, Cisco Jabber registers protocol handlers for a number of different protocols. These are used to tell the operating system that whenever a user clicks on a URL containing one of the custom protocols (e.g. ciscoim:firstname.lastname@e...
Recently, researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team Unit 42 have uncovered the first instance case of a cryptojacking worm that propagates via malicious Docker images. On October 2019 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released patches for CVE-2019-1166 and CVE-2019-1338, two serious vulnerabilities that may ...
"During 2018, the world moved further toward confrontation. An important problem is that the actions of an increasing number of actors are driven not by a real essence of what is happening, but by their medial reflection, which is often deliberately manipulated and biased", the report said. According to the intelligenc...
NTP BUG 2665: Weak default key in config_auth() Last update: June 28, 2022 20:06 UTC (57417e17c) auth key is set in the configuration file, ntpd would generate a random key on the fly. There were two problems with this: 1) the generated key was 31 bits in size, and 2) it used the (now weak) ntp_random() function, which...
Named parameters call a JScript function or method, and one of the named parameter names is empty or null. This is not allowed since all parameters have non-null names. Named parameters cannot be used when calling functions and methods using JScript. However, JScript functions and methods can be called from other langu...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malware, called ‘LOBSHOT,’ distributed through Google ads. This malware allows cybercriminals to take over infected Windows devices by using hVNC. The hVNC is a type of VNC remote access software customized to operate on a hidden desktop within an infected device rather t...
OWASPan open source web application security project, has released a testing tool to test the security of servers against this type of attacks. Amplification[ edit ] Amplification attacks are used to magnify the bandwidth that is sent to a victim. This paper first engine starting defense from Intrusion Detection, Intru...
CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) has published the first results of its pre-ransomware notifications that were introduced at the start of 2023. Even though this initiative is relatively young, CISA says it has notified over 60 entities across the energy, healthcare, water/wastewater, education, a...
Attackers upload webshell into a web server to achieve the purpose of stealing data, launching a DDoS attack, modifying files with malicious intentions, etc. Once these objects are accomplished, it will bring huge losses to website managers. With the gradual development of encryption and confusion technology, the most ...
Adobe ColdFusion Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability SonicWall Capture Labs Threat Research Team has observed the following threat: Adobe ColdFusion is an application development platform by Adobe Systems. It is an IDE used to develop web applications and supports a full scripting language, ColdFusion Markup Language (C...
Linux server admins are reporting attacks resulting in the disappearance of the server’s web folder and websites being down indefinitely. Posts to the forums on the BleepingComputer website corroborate a number of such attacks, most likely intrusions powered by brute-force attacks against SSH, according to one of the v...
About This Chapter Wireless Network Security - Chapter Summary If you're looking for an overview of wireless network security concepts, then you're in the right place. This chapter includes a collection of short lessons that break down the fundamentals of wide area network topologies, WLAN protocols, wireless protected...
Jun 09 2009 In 2008, we wrote about Backdoor.Win32.Sinowal , a malicious program we believed to pose a serious threat, as it employed the most advanced, at the time, virus technologies. Dec 18 2008 The term MalWare 2.0 is often used in our reports to denote a model for the complex malicious programs which appeared at t...
Objective 8 - Broken Tag Generator¶ The Tag Generator can be accessed here. The terminal challenge for this objective is Redis Bug Hunt which is offered by Holly Evergreen. Solving the terminal challenge, Redis Bug Hunt, provides additional hints for this objective. To view the hints or the walk-through for this termin...
What is "Lakshasa" that infects BIOS and firmware and creates backdoor that can not be detected by hardware? British researchers in MayDiscovered an unknown backdoor capable of cyber attack on Chinese-made silicon chip used for nuclear power plants and militaryThere was an article saying that,Black Hat security confere...
Penetration testing, more commonly called pentesting, is the practice of finding holes that could be exploited in an application, network or system with the goal of detecting security vulnerabilities that a hacker could use against it. Here is a compilation of multiple forensic and penetration testing tools for applica...
Wi-Fi Penetration Testing Wireless communication is an inherent service of most businesses that allow easy access and flow of information. The wireless infrastructure allows mobile clients to easily be connected, but improper implementation may leave your business vulnerable to outside exploitation from malicious hacke...
Ransomware is a serious threat to all organizations across all industries. All organizations must bolster their defenses against ransomware and other cyberattacks immediately. However, the security technology landscape is complex and presents many challenges in implementing a strong security practice. In this white pap...
More ransomware attacks made news headlines this month, with the most notable being the Oslo, Norway-based aluminum manufacturing Norsk Hydro being shut down by ransomware. The company manufactures aluminum products, manufacturing close to half a million tons each year, and is also a significant provider of hydroelectr...
This is the second news on Zeus malware in less than a week, previous one was related to a new variant using steganography to hide configuration file, this last discovery is related to a version even more sophisticated that implements a web-crawling feature. We have been accustomed to associate the name of the feared Z...
- Reference: U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) Alert TA18-106A – Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Targeting Network Infrastructure Devices (see www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-106A). - Issue: US-CERT, the FBI, and the UK National Cyber Security Centre have issued a joint Technical Alert that provide...
How often do you clean out your Downloads folder? When you download something from a website, the file will be saved in the Downloads folder because of your browser’s default setting. Last time I checked mine, I had almost 2GB of files in the folder—a variety of zipped files, MS Office docs, pictures, and installers. I...