Continuous Monitoring and Protection
Gift card email scams still work as cyber criminals know how to exploit users’ emotions. Therefore, be cautious of such unsolicited emails that carry an emotionally charged plea to help someone who does not exist. Having good email security measures also helps block such emails from reaching inboxes. https://cyware.com/news/newly-discovered-lilac-wolverine-associated-with-gift-card-scams-8827ee76
Read MoreVietnam has been the most affected country from these apps, but Android users in any country could have downloaded them. Android apps are constantly being used by threat actors because of the availability of third-party app stores and the lack of strict app guidelines for apps published within those stores. Android users should only download apps through the official Google Play Store and only from trusted developers. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-malware-infected-300-000-devices-to-steal-facebook-accounts/
Read Moreby Paul Ducklin BUSINESS RISKS FROM AFTER-HOURS MALWARE Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and anywhere that good podcasts are found. Or just drop the URL of our RSS feed into your favourite podcatcher. READ THE TRANSCRIPT DOUG. Crackdowns,…
Read Moreby Paul Ducklin Forget Sergeant Pepper and his Lonely Hearts Club Band, who taught the band to play a mere 20 years ago today. December 2022 sees the 35th anniversary of the first major self-spreading computer virus – the infamous CHRISTMA EXEC worm that temporarily crushed the major mainframe networks of the day… … not by any deliberately coded side-effects such as file scrambling or data deletion, but simply by leeching too much network bandwidth…
Read MoreIt is highly recommended for all users of the Quarkus Java framework to update to versions 2.14.2.Final and 2.13.5.Final (LTS) to fix the exploit as soon as possible. This fix forces the Dev UI to check the origin header of the request and only accept requests where the value is localhost. Since this header is set by the browser and is not modifiable by JavaScript run within the browser, exploitation of this vulnerability cannot be…
Read MoreLastPass reminded customers their master password should be extremely strong and unique, and should never be reused. Additionally, users should set up multi-factor authentication (MFA). MFA combines biometric and contextual factors to establish identity – something you know (a password), something you have (a mobile device), and something you are (a biometric). LastPass provided the following instructions to ensure customer accounts are set up properly and secured. https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/01/how-to-set-up-your-new-lastpass-account/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-says-hackers-accessed-customer-data-in-new-breach/
Read MoreFree credit and identity monitoring has been offered to those impacted by the event; it is highly recommended that affected users should take advantage of these services. Throughout the investigation process, no evidence of misuse or redistribution of the information was found by Southampton County. However, this assertion of low impact was proven to be false after snippets of data were posted, demonstrating the uncertainty and risks that emerge in the aftermath of ransomware attacks.…
Read MoreIn the first half of this year, researchers saw a rising trend of wiper malware being deployed in parallel with the Russia-Ukraine war. However, those wipers haven’t stayed in one place – they’re emerging globally, which underscores the fact that cybercrime knows no borders. It’s not just the numbers that are growing; we’re also seeing a rise in variety and sophistication. These wiper varieties are also increasingly targeting critical infrastructure. Awash with wipers The war…
Read MoreOriginal release date: December 1, 2022 Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and CISA released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) #StopRansomware: Cuba Ransomware to provide network defenders tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with Cuba ransomware. FBI investigations identified these TTPs and IOCs as recently as August 2022. This CSA updates the December 2021 FBI Flash: Indicators of Compromise Associated with Cuba Ransomware. Key updates include: FBI has identified a…
Read MoreSecurity researchers recently probed IBM Cloud’s database-as-a-service infrastructure and found several security issues that granted them access to the internal server used to build database images for customer deployments. The demonstrated attack highlights some common security oversights that can lead to supply chain compromises in cloud infrastructure. Developed by researchers from security firm Wiz, the attack combined a privilege escalation vulnerability in the IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL service with plaintext credentials scattered around the…
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