Announcement This revised draft addresses the public comments provided for the preliminary draft released in June 2021. Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts an...
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zdnet – FBI decision to withhold Kaseya ransomware decryption keys stirs debate
Many security experts defended the FBI’s decision to leave Kaseya victims struggling with ransomware infections for weeks. This week, the Washington Post reported that the FBI had the...
thehackernews – Apple’s New iCloud Private Relay Service Leaks Users’ Real IP Addresses
A new as-yet unpatched weakness in Apple’s iCloud Private Relay feature could be circumvented to leak users’ true IP addresses from iOS devices running the latest...
Infosecurity magazine – LG to Acquire Cybellum
The board of directors at Korean electronics company LG Electronics has approved the acquisition of Israel-based vehicle cybersecurity startup Cybellum. In announcing the deal on Thursday, LG said it would assume...
cisomag – Immutable Backups are Key to Becoming Resilient Against Ransomware: Veeam
Ransomware groups now prioritize seeking and encrypting data in backups to make the recovery process difficult unless the ransom is paid. That’s why it’s important to...
securityweekly – Building a More Secure AppDev Process
Enterprises that integrate security testing into their CI/CD pipeline fix 91.4 percent of new issues, according to a progress report from ShiftLeft. Recent software supply chain attacks...
cisomag – What are Credential Stuffing Attacks and How to Prevent Them
In credential stuffing attacks, threat actors leverage stolen or leaked credentials like usernames and passwords to break into user accounts illicitly.By CISOMAG – September 21, 2021SHARE FacebookTwitter Read Aloud Thwarting...
cyberdefensemagazine – Defeat Ransomware with Immutable Backup Data and Encryption
Move beyond traditional security strategies to protect against the two most common types of ransomware threats By Jon Toor, CMO, Cloudian The Director of the FBI...
thehackernews – New Malware Targets Windows Subsystem for Linux to Evade Detection
A number of malicious samples have been created for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with the goal of compromising Windows machines, highlighting a sneaky method...
thehackernews – Google to Auto-Reset Unused Android App Permissions for Billions of Devices
Google on Friday said it’s bringing an Android 11 feature that auto-resets permissions granted to apps that haven’t been used in months, to devices running Android...
thehackernews – Europol Busts Major Crime Ring, Arrests Over 100 Online Fraudsters
Law enforcement agencies in Italy and Spain have dismantled an organized crime group linked to the Italian Mafia that was involved in online fraud, money laundering,...
teissTalk: Shadow-IT – keeping security out of the way of productivity?
This audio-only version of our twice weekly cyber security talk show, teissTalk. Join us twice a week for free by visiting www.teiss.co.uk/talk On this episode, we...
Should The U.S. Ban Chinese and Russian Technology?
Every year, seemingly, there’s a new story of some software – like ‘Tik Tok’ or ‘FaceApp’ – from a hostile country that may or may not...
Electioneering, domestic, but with international implications. The Mirai botnet is exploiting OMIGOD. Container shipper sustains data breach. Odd ads. Phishing with Mr. Musk’s name.
Cyber electioneering, in Hungary and Russia, the latter with some international implications. The Mirai botnet is exploiting the OMIGOD vulnerability. A shipping company deals with data...
058| Paths to Infosec: From ER to IR
Data breaches and other security incidents have become a frequent, severe problem for organizations. But with incident responders in short supply, there are fewer professionals available...
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Analysis of Numando banking trojan, steps to mitigate attack surface, and more! – Week in security with Tony Anscombe The post Week in security with Tony...
Numando: Count once, code twice
The (probably) penultimate post in our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans. The post Numando: Count once, code twice appeared first on WeLiveSecurity Views: 0
Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes actively exploited zero‑day and 85 other flaws
The most recent Patch Tuesday includes a fix for the previously disclosed and actively exploited remote code execution flaw in MSHTML. The post Microsoft Patch Tuesday...
thehackernews – New Stealthier ZLoader Variant Spreading Via Fake TeamViewer Download Ads
Users searching for TeamViewer remote desktop software on search engines like Google are being redirected to malicious links that drop ZLoader malware onto their systems while simultaneously embracing...
thehackernews – 3 Former U.S. Intelligence Officers Admit to Hacking for UAE Company
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday disclosed it fined three intelligence community and military personnel $1.68 million in penalties for their role as cyber-mercenaries...
nakedsecurity – Windows zero-day MSHTML attack – how not to get booby trapped!
Details are scarce so far, but Microsoft is warning Office users about a bug that’s dubbed CVE-2021-40444, and described as Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. The bug doesn’t have...
thehackernews – Microsoft Warns of Cross-Account Takeover Bug in Azure Container Instances
Microsoft on Wednesday said it remediated a vulnerability in its Azure Container Instances (ACI) services that could have been weaponized by a malicious actor “to access...
thehackernews – WhatsApp to Finally Let Users Encrypt Their Chat Backups in the Cloud
WhatsApp on Friday announced it will roll out support for end-to-end encrypted chat backups on the cloud for Android and iOS users, paving the way for storing information...
welivesecurity – BladeHawk group: Android espionage against Kurdish ethnic group
ESET researchers have investigated a targeted mobile espionage campaign against the Kurdish ethnic group, and that has been active since at least March 2020. ESET researchers...
welivesecurity – ProtonMail forced to log user’s IP address after an order from Swiss authorities
ProtonMail a Swiss-based secure email provider has been at the center of some controversy after it was forced to share the IP address of one of...
thehackernews – Mēris Botnet Hit Russia’s Yandex With Massive 22 Million RPS DDoS Attack
Russian internet giant Yandex has been the target of a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a new botnet called Mēris. The botnet is believed to...
thehackernews – Russian Ransomware Group REvil Back Online After 2-Month Hiatus
The operators behind the REvil ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) staged a surprise return after a two-month hiatus following the widely publicized attack on technology services provider Kaseya on July 4....
thehackernews – Hackers Leak VPN Account Passwords From 87,000 Fortinet FortiGate Devices
Network security solutions provider Fortinet confirmed that a malicious actor had unauthorizedly disclosed VPN login names and passwords associated with 87,000 FortiGate SSL-VPN devices. “These credentials...