Cybersecurity News
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
HP Omen Hub Exposes Millions of Gamers to Cyberattack
A driver privilege-escalation bug gives attackers kernel-mode access to millions of PCs used for gaming.
16 September 2021
Azure Zero-Day Flaws Highlight Lurking Supply-Chain Risk
Dubbed OMIGOD, a series of vulnerabilities in the Open Management Infrastructure used in Azure on Linux demonstrate hidden security threats, researchers said.
16 September 2021
Customer Care Giant TTEC Hit By Ransomware?
TTEC, [NASDAQ: TTEC], a company used by some of the world's largest brands to help manage customer support and sales online and over the phone, is dealing with disruptions from a network security incident that appears to be the result of a ransomware attack, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.15 September 2021
No Patch for High-Severity Bug in Legacy IBM System X Servers
Two of IBM's aging flagship server models, retired in 2020, won’t be patched for a command-injection flaw.
15 September 2021
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.
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15 September 2021
Attackers Impersonate DoT in Two-Day Phishing Scam
Threat actors dangled the lure of receiving funds from the $1 trillion infrastructure bill and created new domains mimicking the real federal site.
15 September 2021
Cybercriminals recreate Cobalt Strike in Linux
The new malware strain has gone unnoticed by detection tools.15 September 2021
Two-thirds of cloud attacks could be stopped by checking configurations, research finds
IBM says that over half of cloud security breaches are caused by issues simple to rectify.15 September 2021
Meris botnet assaults KrebsOnSecurity
The botnet appears to be made up of compromised routers.15 September 2021