A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.
Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.
THREAT ANALYSIS REPORT: Bumblebee Loader – The High Road to Enterprise Domain Control
Cybereason GSOC observed distribution of the Bumblebee Loader and post-exploitation activities including privilege escalation, reconnaissance and credential theft. Bumblebee operators use the Cobalt Strike framework throughout the attack and abuse credentials for privilege escalation to access Active Directory, as well as abusing a domain administrator account to move laterally, create local user accounts and exfiltrate data...
Ransomware Group Claims Access to SCADA in Confusing UK Water Company Hack
A ransomware group has hit at least one water company in the United Kingdom, but there is some confusion over whose systems were actually breached.
Fake DDoS Pages On WordPress Sites Lead to Drive-By-Downloads
We reveal how hackers have begun leveraging fake DDoS protection pages to trick users into downloading remote access trojans (RATs) onto their computers.
Lloyd’s to Exclude Catastrophic Nation-Backed Cyberattacks From Insurance Coverage
Lloyd’s of London will require its insurer groups globally to exclude catastrophic state-backed hacks from stand-alone cyber insurance policies starting next year.
CVE-2022-27925
On May 10, 2022, Zimbra released versions 9.0.0 patch 24 and 8.8.15 patch 31 to address multiple vulnerabilities in Zimbra Collaboration Suite, including CVE-2…
Google And Cloudflare Are Changing The Trust Infrastructure of the Internet: A Long Goodbye to RSA and a Hello to ECC and ECDSA
The RSA method was created by Rivest, Shamir and Adleman in 1978, and it is still used to encrypt and sign for data. The core of trust on the Internet is the usage of PKI, and where Web sites have a…
New macOS malware 'CloudMensis' detected and prevented
Jamf Threat Labs updates Jamf Protect to completely prevent CloudMensis from threatening the security of your macOS fleet.
Mēris botnet, climbing to the record
End of June 2021, Qrator Labs started to see signs of a new assaulting force on the Internet – a botnet of a new kind. That is a joint research we conducted together with Yandex to elaborate on the specifics of the DDoS attacks enabler emerging in almost real-time.
Overview of the Cyber Weapons Used in the Ukraine
Observing the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, we can clearly see that cyberattacks leveraging malware are an important part of modern hybrid war strategy.
Bypass phishing detections with Google Translate
A new wave of phishing is currently circulating (a related story from derstandard.at newspaper can be found here). Documents are said to have been sent to you from a scanner, which you can allegedly download, as can be seen in the following image
Reservations Requested: TA558 Targets Hospitality and Travel
- TA558 is a likely financially motivated small crime threat actor targeting hospitality, hotel, and travel organizations. * Since 2018, this group has used consistent tactics, techniques, and procedures to attempt to install a variety of malware including Loda RAT, Vjw0rm, and Revenge RAT. * TA558’s targeting focus is mainly on Portuguese and Spanish speakers, typically located in the Latin America region, with additional targeting observed in Western Europe and North America. * TA558 increased operational tempo in 2022 to a higher average than previously observed. * Like other threat actors in 2022, TA558 pivoted away from using macro-enabled documents in campaigns and adopted new tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Making Sense of the Killnet, Russia’s Favorite Hacktivists
Killnet makes three announcements The past month seemed to be a turning point for the pro-Russian hacktivist group “Killnet”—and it was very eager to tell the world about it. First, on July 27, “Killmilk”—the founder and the head of the group who led its transformation from a DDoS-for-hire outlet i
Disrupting SEABORGIUM’s ongoing phishing operations
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed and taken actions to disrupt campaigns launched by SEABORGIUM in campaigns involve persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft.
Operation In(ter)ception: Aerospace and military companies in the crosshairs of cyberspies | WeLiveSecurity
ESET research uncovers attacks against several high-profile aerospace and military companies in Europe and the Middle East, with several hints suggesting a possible link to the Lazarus group.
North Korean hackers use signed macOS malware to target IT job seekers
North Korean hackers from the Lazarus group have been using a signed malicious executable for macOS to impersonate Coinbase and lure in employees in the financial technology sector.
An inside view of domain anonymization as-a-service
One, if not the main, challenge with producing good intelligence is to have access to the right information at the right moment. The right telemetry from the right angle helps you to detect and dig…
The Return of LOIC, HOIC, HULK, and Slowloris to the Threat Landscape
CHARGING MY LASER! Since the first quarter of 2022, there has been a significant increase in hacktivism worldwide.
Twilio Incident: What Signal Users Need to Know
Recently Twilio, the company that provides Signal with phone number verification services, suffered a phishing attack. Here's what our users need to know: All users can rest assured that their message history, contact lists, profile information, whom they'd blocked, and other personal data remain private and secure and were not affected. For about 1,900 users, an attacker could have attempted to re-register their number to another device or learned that their number was registered to Signal. This attack has since been shut down by Twilio. 1,900 users is a very small percentage of Signal’s total users, meaning that most were not affected.
DigitalOcean says customer email addresses were exposed after latest Mailchimp breach – TechCrunch
Cloud giant DigitalOcean says that some customers’ email addresses were exposed because of a recent “security incident” at email marketing company Mailchimp. In a scant blog post dated August 12, just two days after the company’s co-founder and long-time CEO Ben Chestnut stepped down, Mailchimp said a recent but undated attack saw threat actors targeting […]
Impact to DigitalOcean customers resulting from Mailchimp security incident
The security of DigitalOcean customers and their data is a responsibility we approach with utmost dedication. When our customers' security is threatened we respond swiftly, communicate with transpa...
Two more malicious Python packages in the PyPI
We used our internal automated system for monitoring open-source repositories and discovered two other malicious Python packages in the PyPI.
Ransomware Now Threatens the Global South
Increased targeting of developing and middle-income countries by ransomware actors presents a challenge to political resilience, economic development and global cyber security.
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Zoom’s latest update on Mac includes a fix for a dangerous security flaw
Zoom has issued a patch for a bug on macOS that could allow a hacker to take control of a user’s operating system (via MacRumors). In an update on its security bulletin, Zoom acknowledges the issue (CVE-2022-28756) and says a fix is included in version 5.11.5 of the app on Mac, which you can (and should) download now.
Process injection: breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability ·
In macOS 12.0.1 Monterey, Apple fixed CVE-2021-30873. This was a process injection vulnerability affecting (essentially) all macOS AppKit-based applications. We reported this vulnerability to Apple, along with methods to use this vulnerability to escape the sandbox, elevate privileges to root and bypass the filesystem restrictions of SIP.
NHS IT supplier held to ransom by hackers
Its IT provider says it may take three or four weeks to fully recover from the cyber-attack.
Cisco confirms May attack by Yanluowang ransomware group
Cisco confirmed on Wednesday that it was attack by the Yanluowang ransomware group in May, but said the hackers were not able to steal sensitive data or impact the company’s operations. In a statement to The Record, Cisco said the incident occured on their corporate network in late May and that they “immediately took action to contain and eradicate the bad actors.”
Phishers who breached Twilio and targeted Cloudflare could easily get you, too
Unusually resourced threat actor has targeted multiple companies in recent days.
The mechanics of a sophisticated phishing scam and how we stopped it
Yesterday, August 8, 2022, Twilio shared that they’d been compromised by a targeted phishing attack. Around the same time as Twilio was attacked, we saw an attack with very similar characteristics also targeting Cloudflare’s employees. While individual employees did fall for the phishing messages, we were able to thwart the attack through our own use of Cloudflare One products, and physical security keys issued to every employee that are required to access all our applications.
Hands-on with Lockdown Mode in iOS 16
Lockdown Mode is a new Apple feature you should hope you’ll never need to use. But for those who do, like journalists, politicians, lawyers and human rights defenders, it’s a last line of defense against nation-state spyware designed to punch through an iPhone’s protections. The new security feature was announced earlier this year as an […]