[[{“value”:”Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network: Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the…
[[{“value”:”Johnson Controls confirms that the recent ransomware attack resulted in data theft and says expenses reached $27 million. The post Johnson Controls Ransomware Attack: Data Theft Confirmed, Cost Exceeds $27 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.”}]] Read More
The U.S. government on Wednesday said it took steps to neutralize a botnet comprising hundreds of U.S.-based small office and home office (SOHO) routers hijacked by a China-linked state-sponsored threat actor called Volt Typhoon and blunt the impact posed by the hacking campaign.
The existence of the botnet, dubbed KV-botnet, was first disclosed by the Black Lotus Labs team at
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of the malware HeadCrab that's known to target Redis database servers across the world since early September 2021.
The development, which comes exactly a year after the malware was first publicly disclosed by Aqua, is a sign that the financially-motivated threat actor behind the campaign is actively adapting and
How’s your vulnerability management program doing? Is it effective? A success? Let’s be honest, without the right metrics or analytics, how can you tell how well you’re doing, progressing, or if you’re getting ROI? If you’re not measuring, how do you know it’s working?
And even if you are measuring, faulty reporting or focusing on the wrong metrics can create blind spots and make it harder to
The law enforcement operation deleted the KV Botnet malware from the routers and severed their connection to the botnet. Read More
[[{“value”:”The cybersecurity industry has taken limited action to reduce cybersecurity process friction, reduce mundane tasks and improve overall user experience. The post Why Are Cybersecurity Automation Projects Failing? appeared first on SecurityWeek.”}]] Read More
[[{“value”:”Recently, Cluster25, a threat intelligence firm, uncovered a spear-phishing campaign dubbed “The Bear and the Shell,” specifically targeting entities critical of the Russian government and aligned with dissident movements. The campaign leverages social engineering tactics, employing seemingly legitimate lures to…
[[{“value”:”Apple releases first security update for Vision Pro VR headset as CISA issues warning about exploitation of iOS vulnerability. The post Apple Patches Vision Pro Vulnerability as CISA Warns of iOS Flaw Exploitation appeared first on SecurityWeek.”}]] Read More
[[{“value”:”Attackers continue to use compromised routers as malicious infrastructure to target government organizations in Europe and the Caucasus region. APT28 threat actors (also known as Sofacy, Fancy Bear, etc.) were behind this malicious espionage effort, according to the Ukrainian government’s computer emergency…
Google-owned Mandiant said it identified new malware employed by a China-nexus espionage threat actor known as UNC5221 and other threat groups during post-exploitation activity targeting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Policy Secure devices.
This includes custom web shells such as BUSHWALK, CHAINLINE, FRAMESTING, and a variant of LIGHTWIRE.
"CHAINLINE is a Python web shell backdoor that is
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a high-severity flaw impacting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-48618 (CVSS score: 7.8), concerns a bug in the kernel component.
"An attacker with
[[{“value”:”Chinese government hackers are busily targeting water treatment plants, the electrical grid, transportation systems and other critical infrastructure inside the United States, FBI Director Chris Wray told lawmakers. The post US Says it Disrupted a China Cyber Threat, but Warns…
[[{“value”:”The iPhone security setting that you should enable right now, the worrying way that AI is predicting what criminals look like, and we play a game of face fake or real… All this and much more is discussed in the…
The iPhone security setting that you should enable right now, the worrying way that AI is predicting what criminals look like, and we play a game of face fake or real…All this and much much more is discussed in the…
