Cybersecurity News
Europol Breaks Open Extensive Mafia Cybercrime Ring
Organized crime ring thrived on violence, intimidation and $12 million in online fraud profits.
20 September 2021
Payment API Bungling Exposes Millions of Users’ Payment Data
Misconfigured APIs make any app risky, but when you’re talking about financial apps, you’re talking about handing ne’er-do-wells the power to turn your pockets inside-out.
20 September 2021
Bring Your APIs Out of the Shadows to Protect Your Business
APIs are immensely more complex to secure. Shadow APIs—those unknown or forgotten API endpoints that escape the attention and protection of IT¬—present a real risk to your business. Learn how to identify shadow APIs and take control of them before attackers do.
20 September 2021
Facebook rebukes WSJ over investigation on the platform's ability to harm, 'toxic' impact
Facebook says the series contains "deliberate mischaracterizations."20 September 2021
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Analysis of Numando banking trojan, steps to mitigate attack surface, and more! – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
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17 September 2021
Porn Problem: Adult Ads Persist on US Gov’t, Military Sites
Cities, states, federal and military agencies should patch the Laserfiche CMS post-haste, said the security researcher whose jaw dropped at 50 sites hosting porn and Viagra spam.
17 September 2021
Ditch the Alert Cannon: Modernizing IDS is a Security Must-Do
Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, makes the case for implementing next-gen intrusion-detection systems (NG-IDS) and retiring those noisy 90s compliance platforms.
17 September 2021
AT&T Phone-Unlocking Malware Ring Costs Carrier $200M
With the help of malicious insiders, a fraudster was able to install malware and remotely divorce iPhones and other handsets from the carrier's U.S. network -- all the way from Pakistan.
17 September 2021
Microsoft MSHTML Flaw Exploited by Ryuk Ransomware Gang
Microsoft and RiskIQ researchers have identified several campaigns using the recently patched zero-day, reiterating a call for organizations to update affected systems.
17 September 2021
This banking Trojan abuses YouTube to manage remote settings
The spam-spread malware is another headache for Latin America in the cybersecurity realm.17 September 2021
Numando: Count once, code twice
The (probably) penultimate post in our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans.
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17 September 2021
Cyberattacks against the aviation industry linked to Nigerian threat actor
The investigation began after a Microsoft tweet concerning AsyncRAT.17 September 2021
Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss
A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrel's conviction comes roughly two weeks after his co-conspirator pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to running the services.16 September 2021
CISA, FBI: State-Backed APTs May Be Exploiting Critical Zoho Bug
The newly identified bug in a Zoho single sign-on and password management tool has been under active attack since early August.
16 September 2021
Airline Credential-Theft Takes Off in Widening Campaign
A spyware effort bent on stealing cookies and logins is being driven by unsophisticated attackers cashing in on the initial-access-broker boom.
16 September 2021
Information Supplement: Implementing ISO Format 4 PIN Blocks
The Implementing ISO Format 4 PIN Blocks Information Supplement provides guidance to help PIN acquiring entities with the planning, migration, and testing of the implementation of ISO Format 4 PIN blocks in conformance with the requirements in the PCI PIN Standard. This document contains information that may be useful in migrating to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
16 September 2021
Financial Cybercrime: Following Cryptocurrency via Public Ledgers
John Hammond, security researcher with Huntress, discusses a wallet-hijacking RAT, and how law enforcement recovered millions in Bitcoin after the Colonial Pipeline attack.
16 September 2021
REvil/Sodinokibi Ransomware Universal Decryptor Key Is Out
Bitdefender worked with law enforcement to create a key to unlock victims encrypted in ransomware attacks before REvil's servers went belly-up on July 13.
16 September 2021
New Go malware Capoae targets WordPress installs, Linux systems
Capoae highlights the increase of cyberattacks designed to deploy cryptocurrency-mining payloads.16 September 2021
DDoS Attacks: A Flourishing Business for Cybercrooks – Podcast
Imperva’s Peter Klimek on how DDoS attacks started out as inconveniences but evolved to the point where attackers can disrupt businesses for as little as the price of a cup of coffee,
16 September 2021
