2023

New Carbanak / Anunak Attack Methodology 15/08/2023 at 19:32 By SpiderLabs Researcher In the last month Trustwave was engaged by multiple hospitality businesses for investigations by an unknown attacker or attackers. The modus operandi for all three investigations were very similar and appear to be a new Carbanak gang attack methodology, focused on the hospitality

Network Encryption in Modern Relational Database Management Systems 15/08/2023 at 19:19 By Martin Rakhmanov In this post I’ll continue on the topic of data encryption (see my previous post on Encrypting Data At Rest). This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source

ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: Detecting Malware with Fuzzy Hashing 15/08/2023 at 19:05 By Ryan Barnett We witnessed a sophisticated phishing campaign on 16th August 2017, targeting victims by sending spoofed phishing email messages appearing to come from Xero. Xero is a New Zealand-based software company that develops cloud-based accounting software for small and medium-sized

Malware Xeroing in on Cloud Accounting Customers 15/08/2023 at 18:51 By Dr. Fahim Abbasi We witnessed a sophisticated phishing campaign on 16th August 2017, targeting victims by sending spoofed phishing email messages appearing to come from Xero. Xero is a New Zealand-based software company that develops cloud-based accounting software for small and medium-sized businesses. The scammers

Look What I Found: Moar Pony! 15/08/2023 at 18:51 By Daniel Chechik In our last episode of “Look What I Found” we talked about a fairly large instance of the Pony Botnet Controller. With the source code of Pony leaked and in the wild, we continue to see new instances and forks of Pony 1.9. One of the latest

Charging your iPhone literally costs Apple millions as Batterygate saga slams shut 15/08/2023 at 18:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo Estimated payments of $65 can now be distributed to those who filed a claim in 2018 lawsuit Apple’s “Batterygate” legal saga is finally swinging shut – in the US, at least – with a final appeal being

67% of government agencies claim confidence in adopting zero trust 15/08/2023 at 18:10 By A recent Swimlane report analyzed federal agencies’ confidence level and adoption of zero trust requirements following a 2022 executive order. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Foxconn to spend billions bulking its Indian operations – just for starters 15/08/2023 at 17:49 By Laura Dobberstein Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand on mega-manufacturer’s list of not-China expansion targets Foxconn CEO Young Liu said on Monday that the massive conglomerate also known as Hon Hai Technology Group plans to invest billions expanding into India – a

Monti Ransomware Returns with New Linux Variant and Enhanced Evasion Tactics 15/08/2023 at 17:33 By The threat actors behind the Monti ransomware have resurfaced after a two-month break with a new Linux version of the encryptor in its attacks targeting government and legal sectors. Monti emerged in June 2022, weeks after the Conti ransomware group shut down

‘Cyber’ Security – must become a board level issue in the UK …really? 15/08/2023 at 17:17 By SpiderLabs Researcher The UK Government is “committed to helpingreduce vulnerability to attacks and ensure that the UK is the safest place todo business” [1]. It’s all part of the much talked about UK Cyber SecurityStrategy [2]. This article

Microsoft may store your conversations with Bing if you’re not an enterprise user 15/08/2023 at 17:03 By Katyanna Quach New AI Services policies also prohibit any reverse engineering and data collection of its products Microsoft prohibits users from reverse engineering or harvesting data from its AI software to train or improve other models, and will

Nutanix reckons you can stuff AI into a box – a box it manages, that is 15/08/2023 at 16:16 By Simon Sharwood You need resources in lots of places, which is the hybrid cloud taming trick the company exists to perform Interest in AI workloads has reached the point at which major enterprise vendors are

Arkansas school district enhances security at future sports complex 15/08/2023 at 16:02 By An Arkansas school district will utilize a new access control solution to enhance security at their future sports complex. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Malware Unleashed: Public Sector Hit in Sudden Surge, Reveals New Report 15/08/2023 at 15:49 By The just-released BlackBerry Global Threat Intelligence Report reveals a 40% increase in cyberattacks against government and public service organizations versus the previous quarter. This includes public transit, utilities, schools, and other government services we rely on daily. With limited resources

So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans 15/08/2023 at 15:37 By Richard Currie We, for one, welcome our distorted-letter-recognizing overlords Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart – better known as the ubiquitous CAPTCHA we see standing athwart the doors to many websites – may

You’re not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak 15/08/2023 at 14:35 By Paul Kunert Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies admit to accidentally including raw crime data in FoI responses Norfolk and Suffolk police have stepped forward to admit that a “technical issue” resulted in raw data pertaining to crime