Cybersecurity News
Coronavirus ‘Financial Relief’ Phishing Attacks Spike
A spate of phishing attacks have promised financial relief due to the coronavirus pandemic - but in reality swiped victims' credentials, payment card data and more.
01 April 2020
Critical WordPress Plugin Bug Can Lock Admins Out of Websites
A second vulnerability could be used to prevent access to almost all of a site’s existing content, by simply redirecting visitors.
01 April 2020
Active Directory Attacks Hit the Mainstream
Understanding the limitations of authentication protocols, especially as enterprises link authentication to cloud services to Active Directory, is essential for security teams in the modern federated enterprise.01 April 2020
Microsoft Alerts Healthcare to Human-Operated Ransomware
Microsoft has notified dozens of hospitals with vulnerable gateway and VPN appliances in their infrastructure, which could put them at risk.01 April 2020
Two Zoom Zero-Day Flaws Uncovered
The zero-day Zoom flaws could give local, unprivileged attackers root privileges, and allow them to access victims’ microphone and camera.
01 April 2020
Could Work-From-Home Staff be Violating Privacy Laws During Conference Calls?
If you are lucky enough to be able to do your job from home right now, you should be aware of a few key things.
01 April 2020
Marriott hacked again, 5.2 million guests affected
Bad actors accessed a range of personally identifiable information, including names, dates of birth and a lot more
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01 April 2020
The SOC Emergency Room Faces Malware Pandemic
To keep users and networks healthy and secure, security teams need to mimic countries that have taken on COVID-19 with a rapid, disciplined approach.01 April 2020
LimeRAT malware is being spread through VelvetSweatshop Excel encryption technique
The old tactic is proving fruitful in a new campaign.01 April 2020
Top Email Protections Fail in Latest COVID-19 Phishing Campaign
An effective spoofing campaign promises users important information about new coronavirus cases in their local area, scooting past Proofpoint and Microsoft Office 356 ATPs.
01 April 2020
Major Cloud, CDN Providers Join Secure Routing Initiative
Akamai, AWS, Azion, Cloudflare, Facebook, and Netflix are now members of the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) effort.01 April 2020
A crypto-mining botnet has been hijacking MSSQL servers for almost two years
Vollgar botnet launches brute-force attacks against MSSQL databases to take over servers and install Monero and Vollar cryptocurrency miners.01 April 2020
Morrisons not liable for massive staff data leak, court rules
UK supreme court says retailer not to blame for actions of employee with grudge
The UK’s highest court has ruled that Morrisons should not be held liable for the criminal act of an employee with a grudge who leaked the payroll data of about 100,000 members of staff.
The supermarket group brought a supreme court challenge in an attempt to overturn previous judgments which gave the go-ahead for compensation claims by thousands of employees whose personal details were posted on the internet.
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Coronavirus con artists continue to spread infections of their own
The scam machine shows no signs of slowing down, as fraudsters dispense bogus health advice, peddle fake testing kits and issue malware-laced purchase orders
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01 April 2020
Phish of GoDaddy Employee Jeopardized Escrow.com, Among Others
A spear-phishing attack this week hooked a customer service employee at GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The incident gave the phisher the ability to view and modify key customer records, access that was used to briefly hijack domains for a half-dozen GoDaddy customers, including transaction brokering site escrow.com.31 March 2020
Defense Evasion Dominated 2019 Attack Tactics
Researchers mapped tactics and techniques to the MITRE ATT&CK framework to determine which were most popular last year.31 March 2020
Watering-Holes Target Asian Ethnic Victims with Flash Update Decoy
About 10 compromised websites employ a multi-stage, targeted effort to fingerprint and compromise victims.
31 March 2020
FCC tells US telcos to implement caller ID authentication by June 30, 2021
FCC says all US telcos must use the new SHAKEN/STIR protocol to support caller ID authentication by June, next year.31 March 2020
Researchers Uncover Unsophisticated - But Creative - Watering-Hole Attack
Holy Water campaign is targeting users of a specific religious and ethnic group in Asia, Kaspersky says.31 March 2020
Marriott discloses new data breach impacting 5.2 million hotel guests
Marriott says a hacker gained access to the accounts of two employees.31 March 2020