The CVE-2019-1132 flaw addressed by Microsoft this month was exploited by Buhtrap threat actor to target a government organization in Eastern Europe. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, including two privilege escalation flaws actively exploited in the wild. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1132, affects the Win32k component and could be […]
Malware researchers at two security firms Intezer and Anomali have discovered a new piece of ransomware targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Experts at security firms Intezer and Anomali have separately discovered a new piece of ransomware targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. NAS servers are a privileged target for hackers because they normally store […]
The Maryland Department of Labor announced it has suffered a data breach announced that exposed personally identifiable information. The Maryland Department of Labor suffered a data breach, hackers accessed databases containing personally identifiable information (PII). The security breach was discovered earlier this year, hackers also accessed data stored in the Literacy Works Information System and […]
Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team discovered a fileless malware campaign that was spreading the information stealing Astaroth Trojan. Experts at the Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team discovered a fileless malware campaign that is delivering the information stealing Astaroth Trojan. The malware is able to log the users’ keystrokes, collect information through hooking, access clipboard content, and monitor […]
Government computer systems at La Porte County, Indiana, were shut down after a cyber attack hit them on July 6. Experts believe it was a ransomware attack. On July 6, a cyber attack brought down government computer systems at La Porte County, Indiana. At the time of writing, there were only a few details about […]
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined British Airways with £183 million for failing to protect its customers’ data during last year’s security breach. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined British Airways with £183 million for failing to protect the personal information of roughly 500,000 customers during 2018 security breach. “Following an extensive investigation the ICO […]
Security experts have uncovered a Magecart large-scale payment card skimming campaign that compromised 962 online stores based on Magento. Security experts at Sanguine Security have uncovered a new large-scale payment card skimming campaign that already hacked 962 online stores running on the Magento CMS. The list of hacked e-commerce also includes a number of websites belonging […]
Cyber criminals have exploited an unproperly implemented password reset process in 7-Eleven to make unwanted charges on 900 customers’ accounts. 7-Eleven Inc. is a Japanese-American international chain of convenience stores, news of the day is that hackers exploited a weakness in the password reset function to make unwanted charges on its customers’ accounts. Crooks targeted approximately 900 […]
Eurofins Scientific, the UK’s biggest provider of forensic services, has paid a ransom to demand to recover its data after a ransomware attack. Eurofins Scientific, the UK’s largest police forensics lab contractor, announced to have paid a ransom to crooks to recover its data after a ransomware had been encrypted them. The company is based […]
Experts at F5 Networks discovered a cryptomining campaign that is delivering a new piece of the Golang malware that targets Linux-based servers. F5 experts uncovered a cryptominer campaign that is delivering a new strain of Golang malware that targets Linux-based servers. The campaign began around June 10 and already infected several thousand machines. The malicious […]