Ukraine secret service announces joint investigation with Europol, FBI, and NCA to attribute the recent Notpetya massive attack. While security experts are investigating real motivation behind the massive NotPetya attack, Ukrainian authorities called for support in the investigation from European and US intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The country’s security service SBU announced the international co-operation […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. · BAE Systems accused of selling mass surveillance software Evident across the Middle East · Facebook inadvertently revealed moderators identities to suspected terrorists · Kasperagent malware used in a new campaign leveraging Palestine-Themed decoy files · Security […]
Security experts at Fox‑IT have demonstrated that is possible sniff AES-256 encryption keys from a distance of one meter (3.3 feet) with a cheap equipment. Security experts at Fox‑IT have demonstrated that is possible to power a side-channel attack to wirelessly extract secret AES-256 encryption keys from a distance of one meter (3.3 feet). The […]
According to the US intelligence, Russian hackers tried to compromise electoral networks in 21 unnamed US states, but voting tallies hadn’t been hacked. According to Homeland Security officials, the attack against the 2016 Presidential election was more sophisticated than first thought. In a public hearing into the Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election held by […]
Drupal team released security updates to fix several vulnerabilities, including the critical access bypass flaw CVE-2017-6922 exploited in spam campaigns. The Drupal development team has released security updates to fix several vulnerabilities, including the critical access bypass flaw tracked as CVE-2017-6922 that has been exploited in spam campaigns. The CVE-2017-6922 flaw was fixed with the […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. · Critical kernel command line injection flaw found in Motorola handsets MOTO G4, G5 · Police seized two Tor relays investigating WannaCry attack, others disappeared in the same period · US Defense is working on new multifactor […]
BC Arabic and the Danish newspaper Dagbladet accuse British BAE Systems of selling mass surveillance software called Evident across the Middle East. The British company BAE Systems has been selling mass surveillance software called Evident across the Middle East, the findings are the result of a year-long investigation by BBC Arabic and the Danish newspaper […]
Cisco èiblished two security advisories to warn customers of the presence of two critical vulnerabilities in the CISCO Prime Data Center Network Manager, Cisco warns its customers of the presence of two critical vulnerabilities in the CISCO Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) that can be exploited by remote attackers for code execution and to access […]
Is the hack back legal? There is a heated debate about the concept of active defense. What about the Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act? In a time where attribution of cyber crimes is all but impossible, the idea of allowing companies to ‘hack back‘ at their attackers seems far-fetched. However, Tom Graves (R-GA) has […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. · British Airways cancels thousands of flights, there is no evidence of cyber-attacks · Security Affairs newsletter Round 112 – News of the week · Tainted Leaks – Widespead Russias disinformation campaign hit 39 Countries · Austrian […]