Comment le leader mondial des data centers a contré l’attaque par rançongiciel de NetWalker
Michael Montoya, Chief Information Security Officer de la société Equinix, a dévoilé les coulisses de la gestion de crise suite à la découverte de l’attaque par rançongiciel de NetWalker en septembre 2020.
Une faille vulnérabilise le gestionnaire de paquets Snap pour Linux
Découverte dans le gestionnaire de paquets Snap pour systèmes Linux développé par Canonical, une faille expose les utilisateurs à de l'escalade de privilèges. Un risque qui peut déboucher jusqu'à de l'accès root.
Oh Snap! More Lemmings (Local Privilege Escalation in snap-confine)
We recently audited snap-confine (a SUID-root program that is installed by default on Ubuntu) and discovered two vulnerabilities (two Local Privilege Escalations, from any user to root): CVE-2021-44730 and CVE-2021-44731.
Boosting your Organisation's Cyber Resilience - Joint Publication
ENISA and CERT-EU strongly encourage all public and private sector organisations in the EU to adopt a minimum set of cybersecurity best practices PDF Document
‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. There’s Practically No Way to Stop Them
As a journalist working for the Arab news network Alaraby, Rania Dridi said she’s taken precautions to avoid being targeted by hackers, keeping an eye out for suspicious messages and avoiding clicking on links or opening attachments from people she doesn’t know.
The Elite Hackers of the FSB
For almost two decades, hackers with Snake have been forcing their way into government networks. They are considered one of the most dangerous hacker groups in the world. Who they work for, though, has always been a matter of pure speculation. But reporters with the German public broadcasters BR and WDR have discovered some clues, and they all lead to the Russian secret service FSB.
Passware parvient à trouver le mot de passe des Mac T2 par force brute
La société Passware, qui s'est fait une spécialité des solutions de déverrouillage des Mac et des PC par force brute, est parvenue à « craquer » la puce T2. Mais attention, le processus nécessite de 10 heures à… plusieurs milliers d'années, en fonction du mot de passe et de sa longueur. Mais cela reste possible grâce à une vulnérabilité exploitée par l'entreprise, dont les clients sont principalement les forces de l'ordre mais aussi des entreprises.
Cyberattaque : la Croix-Rouge confirme l’exploitation d’une vulnérabilité non corrigée
Le comité international de la Croix-Rouge vient de confirmer que la cyberattaque dont il a été victime courant janvier a commencé par l’exploitation d’une vulnérabilité critique affectant un serveur Zoho ManageEngine, pour laquelle le correctif n’avait pas été appliqué.
Merck’s $1.4 Billion Insurance Win Splits Cyber From ‘Act of War’
Merck & Co.‘s victory in a legal dispute with insurers over coverage for $1.4 billion in losses from malware known as NotPetya is expected to force insurance policies to more clearly confront responsibility for the fallout from nation-state cyberattacks.
New Emotet Infection Method
As early as Dec. 21, 2021, Unit 42 observed a new infection method for the highly prevalent malware family Emotet. Emotet is high-volume malware that often changes and modifies its attack patterns. This latest modification of the Emotet attack follows suit.
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High-Severity RCE Security Bug Reported in Apache Cassandra Database Software
Researchers have revealed details of a now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in Apache Cassandra that, if left unaddressed, could be abused to gain remote code execution on affected installations. "This Apache security vulnerability is easy to exploit and has the potential to wreak havoc on systems, but luckily only manifests in non-default configurations of Cassandra," Omer Kaspi, security researcher at DevOps firm JFrog, said in a technical write-up published Tuesday.
