Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
03 March 2023
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack occurred on Tuesday, causing the website to crash for approximately one hour and blocking users’ access to the online tax filing system.
03 March 2023
A new federal strategy to make manufacturers liable for insecure software requires an attainable safe harbor policy and could be a disincentive for them in sharing important vulnerability info with the government, according to industry observers.
03 March 2023
Cado Labs researchers recently discovered a new cryptojacking campaign targeting insecure deployments of Redis database servers. Threat actors behind this campaign used the free and open source command line file transfer service transfer.sh.
03 March 2023
A leader of an international crime network that attempted to launder more than $25 million in fraudulently obtained funds, including through business email compromise, received a sentence of more than a decade in prison.
03 March 2023
An analysis conducted by researcher Anurag Sen at CloudDefense.AI showed that the exposed Falkensteiner customer data was associated with Gustaffo, a company offering IT solutions for the hospitality industry.
03 March 2023
The breach exposed reams of sensitive personal data for more than 550,000 users, including customers’ full names, home addresses, email addresses, plaintext passwords, and telephone numbers.
03 March 2023
Individuals confirmed to be impacted by the incident will be notified directly. WH Smith says that special measures to support them will be put in place. This presumably will include identity protection services.
03 March 2023
The new strategy has five pillars: Defend critical infrastructure; Target and disrupt threat actors; Use market forces to improve security and resilience; Invest in resilience; and Enhance international partnerships.
03 March 2023
Vulnerabilities associated with Microsoft Exchange Server and some virtual private networks, many of which were first disclosed in 2017, continue to be a popular route for hackers to exploit, a report from exposure management company Tenable found.
03 March 2023
A pair of serious security defects has been disclosed in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 reference library specification that could potentially lead to information disclosure or privilege escalation.
One of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-1017, concerns an out-of-bounds write, while the other, CVE-2023-1018, is described as an out-of-bounds read. Credited with discovering and reporting the
03 March 2023
American fast food chain Chick-fil-A has confirmed that customers' accounts were breached in a months-long credential stuffing attack, allowing threat actors to use stored rewards balances and access personal information.
03 March 2023
The China-aligned Mustang Panda actor has been observed using a hitherto unseen custom backdoor called MQsTTang as part of an ongoing social engineering campaign that commenced in January 2023.
"Unlike most of the group's malware, MQsTTang doesn't seem to be based on existing families or publicly available projects," ESET researcher Alexandre Côté Cyr said in a new report.
Attack chains
03 March 2023
A new report by Kaspersky states that almost 200,000 new mobile banking trojans surfaced in 2022, marking a 100% increase from 2021, with China being the most affected, followed by Syria and Iran. RiskTool-type potentially unwanted software accounted for the most distributions at 27.39%, followed by adware at 24.05% and trojan-type malware at 15.56%.
03 March 2023
The vulnerability found by Snyk, which the Gitpod team addressed within a day, is tracked as CVE-2023-0957 and falls into a category of issues known as cross-site WebSocket hijacking.
03 March 2023
The European Data Protection Board on Tuesday published an analysis of the framework, lauding "substantial improvements" but simultaneously expressing "concerns" and requesting "clarifications on several points."
03 March 2023
Some of the emails likely used spoofed email addresses to appear as though they were sent from people within the same organization or from other maritime-related organizations.
03 March 2023
Hewlett Packard Enterprise will soon offer its customers single-vendor SASE after agreeing to purchase a security service edge startup founded by a Symantec security researcher.
03 March 2023
Security researchers discovered recently that the online travel agency Booking.com was impacted by serious vulnerabilities that could have been exploited to take complete control of a user’s account.
03 March 2023
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new advisory about Royal ransomware, which emerged in the threat landscape last year.
"After gaining access to victims' networks, Royal actors disable antivirus software and exfiltrate large amounts of data before ultimately deploying the ransomware and encrypting the systems," CISA said.
The custom ransomware
03 March 2023
BlackBerry researchers spotted the APT-C-36 threat group, aka Blind Eagle, masquerading as a Colombian government tax agency to target financial, health, immigration, and law enforcement sectors. Based on the infection vector and other tactics, researchers believed that the campaign targeted some organizations in Chile, Spain, and Ecuador.