Security experts at IBM noticed that hundreds to thousands of Active Directory users were locked out of their company’s domain by the QakBot Banking malware Malware researchers at IBM noticed that hundreds to thousands of Active Directory users were locked out of their organization’s domain, the incident is caused by the Qbot banking malware. The […]
Security experts at Rapid7 have discovered a security issue in the SSH configuration for its Nexpose appliances tracked as CVE-2017-5243. Owners of Nexpose appliances have to apply an update to their systems to fix the issue in the default SSH configuration. The devices were shipped with an SSH configuration that allowed obsolete algorithms to be […]
Security researchers linked Jaff ransomware campaigns to the backend infrastructure used by operators behind a black market. Security researchers at Heimdal Security who are investigating a new strain of Jaff ransomware discovered that the malware is sharing the backend infrastructure with a black market offering for sale stolen card data and account information. The black […]
Security Experts are observing a significant increase in the number of malware and hacking tools leveraging the ETERNALBLUE NSA exploit. ETERNALBLUE is the alleged NSA exploit that made the headlines with DOUBLEPULSAR in the WannaCry attack. ETERNALBLUEÂ targets the SMBv1 protocol and it has become widely adopted in the community of malware developers. Investigations on WannaCry […]
According to Shodan search, unprotected Hadoop Distributed File System installations expose 5 PB of data. Hadoop servers that are not securely configured expose vast amounts of data, according to an analysis conducted using the Internet search engine Shodan. A study conducted by Shodan revealed that nearly 4,500 servers with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) […]
Crowdfunding initiative aims to buy Shadow Brokers leak before threat actors will start using the hacking tools and exploits in the wild. The Shadow Brokers hacker group is going to launch a monthly subscription model for its data dumps, 0-Day Exploit Subscriptions goes for (100 Zcash), approximately $24,450 per month. The hacking tools and exploits that will […]
Russian President Putin says patriotic hackers may have powered attacks against foreign countries and denied Russia involvement. President Vladimir Putin says patriotic hackers may have launched cyber attacks against foreign countries and but denied Russia involvement in cyber espionage campaigns. Russian state-sponsored APT groups area accused of continuous interferences with 2016 US Presidential Election elections […]
OneLogin company announced on Thursday that it had “detected unauthorised access” in its systems located in the United States. OneLogin is a leading identity and access management software vendor providing an identity-driven enterprise security solution. OneLogin is a popular password manager used by many Internet users to allow management of complex passwords as requested by […]
Wikileaks released a new lot of documents belonging to the Vault7 dump that details the CIA project codenamed ‘Pandemic implant’ Wikileaks released a new batch of documents belonging to the Vault7 archive related to the CIA project codenamed ‘Pandemic.’ RELEASE: CIA 'Pandemic' Windows infection malware documentation #Vault7 https://t.co/YfxAKT1pog pic.twitter.com/HhmmvUBupi — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 1, 2017 The Pandemic […]
A top defense contractor left tens of thousands sensitive Pentagon documents on Amazon Server Without any protection in places. The popular security expert Chris Vickery discovered more than 60,000 sensitive files belonging to a US military project for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) left on Amazon cloud storage server without authentication. The documents were reportedly left unsecured on […]