The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns businesses and netizens of Emotet and BlueKeep attacks in the wild. The ACSC is warning organizations and people of a wave of cyberattacks exploiting the Windows BlueKeep vulnerability to deliver crypto-currency miners. “The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), with its state and territory partners, […]
The Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leaves a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets.db. The Apple expert Bob Gendler discovered that the Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leaves a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets.db. The issue affects all […]
Another day, another victim of a ransomware attack, this time major ASP.NET hosting provider SmarterASP announced it was infected by ransomware. SmarterASP.NET is one of the most popular ASP.NET hosting providers, the company has more than 440,000 customers. SmarterASP announced it was hit yesterday by ransomware attack. The attack encrypted customer data and the company’s […]
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Controversial law entered into effect in Russia this week First Cyber Attack ‘Mass Exploiting BlueKeep RDP Flaw Spotted in the Wild New Gafgyt botnet targets Gaming Servers Everis and Spains radio network Cadena SER hit by ransomware Exclusive […]
Experts believe Artificial intelligence (AI) could introduce new cybersecurity concerns, and that the upcoming 5G network could pose new risks as well. Information Risk Management (IRM) recently published its 2019 Risky Business Report. The document shows the results of polling decision-makers in the cybersecurity and risk management sectors to get their expert opinions on things […]
Ransomware attacks made the lines again, victims are the leading action sports company Boardriders and its subsidiaries including QuikSilver and Billabong. Systems at the action sports company Boardriders was hit by a ransomware attack, the incident also impacted some of its subsidiaries, including QuikSilver and Billabong. In response to the infection, the company shut down its […]
Kaspersky researchers have found a new advanced backdoor used by the Platinum advanced persistent threat (APT) group in attacks in the wild. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new backdoor, tracked as Titanium, that was used by the Platinum APT group in attacks in the wild, the malicious code implements sophisticated evasion techniques. […]
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warns of critical flaws impacting Medtronic Valleylab products that could allow hackers to overwrite files and achieve remote code execution. The US DHS Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a security advisory to warn of three recently patched flaws in Medtronic Valleylab products that could be exploited to install […]
Cisco Talos security researchers discovered multiple flaws in the LEADTOOLS imaging toolkits that could lead to code execution on the target system. LEAD addressed them this week. Security experts at Cisco Talos discovered four High severity vulnerabilities in the LEADTOOLS imaging toolkits that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the target system. LEADTOOLS […]
Italian law enforcement shut down the ‘Berlusconi market’ black market and arrested three suspected of being its administrators. Italian financial police “Guardia di Finanza” shut down the ‘Berlusconi market’ black market hosted on the Tor network and arrested three administrators. The site was managed by two individuals that go online with nicknames of “VladimirPutin” with […]