Cybersecurity News
Facebook’s FTC-Mandated Privacy Committee Now in Effect
Facebook will report its privacy practices to both the committee, the FTC, and to a third-party assessor.
18 June 2020
Have Your Say: Dark Reading Video News Desk Seeks Reader Contributions
We've got questions for you on black infosec, burnout, vulnerabilities, COVID-19, and much more. Send us your video responses and we'll play them in our News Desk broadcast during Black Hat Virtual.18 June 2020
Facebook sues websites that sold Instagram likes and scraped Facebook user data
Facebook files lawsuits against MGP25 Cyberint Services in Spain and against Massroot8 in the US.18 June 2020
IcedID Banker is Back, Adding Steganography, COVID-19 Theme
The malware has boosted its anti-detection capabilities in a new email campaign.
18 June 2020
The Bigger the News, the Bigger the Cyber Threats
Criminals use disasters, wars, and now pandemics as air cover to focus collective anxiety and fear into highly targeted, malicious messaging.18 June 2020
60% of Businesses Plan to Spend More on Cyber Insurance
New data reveals 65% of SMEs plan to invest more in cyber insurance, compared with 58% of large enterprises.18 June 2020
Russia unbans Telegram
Russia's media watchdog Roskomnadzor said Telegram has agreed to help Russian law enforcement fight against extremist and terrorist content shared on its platform.18 June 2020
O365 Phishing Campaign Leveraged Legit Domains
A sophisticated scheme used legitimate redirection tools to convince victims to give up Office 365 credentials.18 June 2020
Cisco Webex, Router Bugs Allow Code Execution
High-severity flaws plague Cisco's Webex collaboration platform, as well as its RV routers for small businesses.
18 June 2020
Most Contact-Tracing Apps Fail Basic Security
A survey of 17 Android applications for informing citizens if they had potential contact with a COVD-19-infected individual finds few have adopted code-hardening techniques.18 June 2020
Google removes 106 Chrome extensions for collecting sensitive user data
Security firm identifies 111 malicious Chrome extensions collecting user keystrokes, clipboard content, cookies, more.18 June 2020
CISO Dialogue: How to Optimize Your Security Budget
CISOs are never going to have all the finances they want. Hard choices must be made. The CISO of Amazon Prime Video discusses his approaches to a slimmed-down budget.18 June 2020
BofA Phish Gets Around DMARC, Other Email Protections
The June campaign was targeted and aimed at stealing online banking credentials.
18 June 2020
Five Password Tips for Securing the New WFH Normal
Darren James, product specialist with Specops Software, warned that password resets, for example, are a particularly vexing issue for sysadmins, as they can often lockout end-users from their accounts.
18 June 2020
Phishing Campaign Targeting Office 365, Exploits Brand Names
Attackers use trusted entities to trick victims into giving up their corporate log-in details as well as to bypass security protections.
18 June 2020
Unpatched vulnerability identified in 79 Netgear router models
Bug lets attackers run code as "root" on vulnerable routers. Impacted routers go back to 2007.18 June 2020
Digging up InvisiMole’s hidden arsenal
ESET researchers reveal the modus operandi of the elusive InvisiMole group, including newly discovered ties with the Gamaredon group
The post Digging up InvisiMole’s hidden arsenal appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
18 June 2020
InvisiMole Group Resurfaces Touting Fresh Toolset, Gamaredon Partnership
InvisiMole is back, targeting Eastern Europe organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions with an updated toolset and new APT partnership.
18 June 2020
Microsoft: COVID-19 malware attacks were barely a blip in total malware volume
COVID-19-themed malware attacks began in February, peaked in March, and are slowly dying out.18 June 2020
When Security Takes a Backseat to Productivity
"We must care as much about securing our systems as we care about running them if we are to make the necessary revolutionary change." -CIA's Wikileaks Task Force. So ends a key section of a report the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency produced in the wake of a mammoth data breach in 2016 that led to Wikileaks publishing thousands of classified documents stolen from the agency's offensive cyber operations division. The analysis highlights a shocking series of security failures at one of the world's most secretive organizations, but the underlying weaknesses that gave rise to the breach also unfortunately are all too common in many organizations today.17 June 2020