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SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-17 13:37:13 AMD Radeon Driver Flaw Leads to VM Escape (lien direct) A vulnerability in the AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL driver could be triggered from within a VMware guest to execute code on the host, Cisco Talos warns. Vulnerability ★★★★
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-17 11:27:29 Oracle Launches New Services to Secure the Cloud (lien direct) Oracle this week expanded its portfolio with three new services designed to help automatically protect cloud workloads and data.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-17 10:53:57 Australia Knows China Hacked Its Parliament: Report (lien direct) Australia is confident that China was behind cyberattacks on its parliament and political parties, but decided not to make public accusations to avoid disrupting trade relations, according to Reuters.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-17 01:02:42 Security Firm: Data Breach Exposes Millions of Ecuadorians (lien direct) Millions of Ecuadorians are at risk of identity theft because a security breach exposed a trove of data including names, phone numbers and birth dates, a cyber security firm said Monday. Data Breach
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-16 17:57:56 InnfiRAT Targets Personal Data, Cryptocurrency Wallets (lien direct) A newly discovered remote access Trojan can steal various types of data from the infected machines, including personal data and cryptocurrency wallet information, Zscaler security researchers warn.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-16 17:42:32 Snowden Says He Would Return to US If He Can Get a Fair Trial (lien direct) Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor living in Russia after leaking information about the US government's mass surveillance program, has said he would like to return home if he can get a fair trial.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-16 16:24:46 Saudi Attacks Expose Threat to Critical Infrastructure (lien direct) The strike on Saudi oil infrastructure highlights the easy vulnerability of such facilities even as the kingdom has splurged billions on sophisticated defense hardware. Vulnerability Threat
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-16 14:40:28 LastPass Patches Bug Leaking Last-Used Credentials (lien direct) A vulnerability recently addressed in LastPass could be abused by attackers to expose the last site credentials filled by LastPass. A freemium password manager, LastPass stores encrypted passwords online and provides users with a web interface to access them, as well as with plugins for web browsers and apps for smartphones. Vulnerability LastPass
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-16 14:19:49 Serious Flaws in CODESYS Products Expose Industrial Systems to Remote Attacks (lien direct) Several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities have been found recently in widely used CODESYS industrial products made by Germany-based 3S-Smart Software Solutions.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-16 13:52:37 Securing the 2020 Elections From Multifarious Threats (lien direct) Securing 2020 Presidential Election That foreign nations will attempt to interfere with the U.S. 2020 elections is a given.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-16 13:20:43 Recycled Source Code Used to Create New MobiHok Android RAT (lien direct) MobiHok is a new Android RAT marketed by the actor known as mobeebom. It is a recycled version of the older, established SpyNote RAT.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-16 12:36:13 Tor Raises $86K to Smash Bugs (lien direct) Members of The Onion Router (Tor) community have raised $86,081 as part of an initiative aimed at securing funds to find and squash issues in the popular browser. Called the Bug Smash Fund, the initiative was launched at the beginning of August 2019, with the purpose of creating a reserve for the Tor Project to use for maintenance and bug patching.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-16 08:46:57 Hundreds Laid Off by Symantec as Part of Restructuring Plan (lien direct) Cybersecurity giant Symantec has informed more than 200 employees in the United States that they are being laid off as part of a recently announced restructuring plan for fiscal year 2020.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-16 07:52:05 Snowden Says Would Like French Asylum (lien direct) Whistleblower Edward Snowden, living in Russia since leaking a trove of classified documents showing the scope of post-9/11 US government surveillance, wants to claim asylum in France, according to an interview published Saturday.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-16 04:42:22 UK Teen Arrested in US-Led Music Hacking Probe (lien direct) British police said Friday they had arrested a 19-year-old man for stealing unreleased songs from musicians' websites and cloud-based accounts, as part of a US-led investigation.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-14 13:49:46 Ohio Gamer Sentenced to 15 Months Prison in \'Swatting\' Case (lien direct) An Ohio gamer upset about a $1.50 bet while playing Call of Duty: WWII online was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison for recruiting a prankster to make a bogus emergency call that resulted in the fatal shooting of a Kansas man by police.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 18:23:25 Car Dealer Marketing Firm Exposed 198 Million Data Records (lien direct) A publicly accessible, unprotected database belonging to car dealership marketing firm Dealer Leads was found to expose 198 million records, including personally identifiable information, Security Discovery reports. Guideline
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 17:32:23 US Puts Sanctions on N.Korea Hacking Groups Behind Major Thefts (lien direct) The US Treasury on Friday placed sanctions on three North Korea government-sponsored hacking operations which it said were behind the theft of possibly hundreds of millions of dollars and destructive cyber-attacks on infrastructure.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 15:45:15 Arizona Schools Provide Model for Managing Ransomware (lien direct) On Wednesday, September 4, 2019, ransomware was discovered at Flagstaff Unified School District, Arizona. Schools were closed on Thursday and Friday of that week, but re-opened after the weekend. No ransom was paid, and only two days schooling was lost. Ransomware
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 14:25:03 Shape Security Raises $51 Million at $1 Billion Valuation (lien direct) Shape Security has raised a further $51 million in Series F growth funding, valuing the company at $1 billion. The total capital raised to date is now $183 million.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 14:10:04 WiryJMPer Dropper Employs Heavy Obfuscation to Deliver Netwire (lien direct) A recently discovered malware dropper employs heavy obfuscation and poses as a virtual coin wallet, in an attempt to deliver a Netwire payload, Avast's security researchers reveal. Malware
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 13:32:06 Sophos Makes Sandboxie Free in Transition to Open Source (lien direct) Sophos this week removed the license check and activation requirements from Sandboxie, essentially making the isolation tool free. The move, the cybersecurity firm says, is the first step it makes toward releasing the sandbox-based isolation program open source. Tool
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 12:20:21 IBM Launches z15 Mainframe With New Data Protection Capabilities (lien direct) IBM z15 mainframe IBM on Thursday unveiled the IBM z15, a mainframe that provides enterprises new capabilities for protecting sensitive customer data across hybrid multi-cloud environments.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 12:06:20 Netanyahu, Trump Deny Report of Israeli Spying Near White House (lien direct) President Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday denied a media report that Israel spied on cell phones in the vicinity of the White House -- and President Donald Trump said he believed him. Speaking on a trip to Russia, Netanyahu said there was no eavesdropping on cell phones around the US presidency because he had forbidden spying against the United States.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 11:02:01 Ukrainian Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking, Wire Fraud Charges (lien direct) A member of a sophisticated international hacking group that authorities say targeted businesses in 47 states to steal credit and debit card records pleaded guilty to hacking and wire fraud charges in Seattle. Guideline
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 10:53:00 Israeli Spyware Firm Adopts \'Human Rights Policy\' (lien direct) An Israeli spyware company that has been accused of helping authoritarian governments stifle dissent says it has adopted "a new human rights policy" to ensure its software is not misused.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 10:10:01 Android Flashlight Apps Request up to 77 Permissions (lien direct) An analysis of Android flashlight applications available in Google Play has revealed that they request an average of 25 permissions, with some requesting up to 77 permissions when installed.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 09:49:01 DoS Vulnerabilities Patched in NETGEAR N300 Routers (lien direct) A firmware update NETGEAR recently released for the N300 series routers addresses two denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities found by security researchers at Cisco's Talos group. Tracked as CVE-2019-5054, the first of the two bugs resides in the session handling functionality of the NETGEAR N300 (WNR2000v5) HTTP server.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-13 09:27:05 Russian Hackers Behind Ukraine Power Outage May Have Sought More Damage (lien direct) The Russia-linked hackers who triggered a power outage in Ukraine back in 2016 may have hoped to cause much more damage, according to a report published recently by U.S.-based industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-12 18:40:00 Attack Traffic Caught by Honeypots Triples Over Six Months (lien direct) The attack traffic recorded by F-Secure's global network of honeypots tripled from the last six months of 2018 to the first six months of 2019. In H2 2018, the network recorded 813 million attacks. In H1 2019, that figure leapt to 2.98 billion attacks.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-12 18:37:00 Wikimedia Gets $2.5 Million in Funding to Secure Wikipedia (lien direct) The Wikimedia Foundation this week announced that it has received $2.5 million in funding from Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-12 16:26:00 Poland to Launch Cyberspace Defense Force (lien direct) NATO member Poland will launch a cyberspace defense force by 2024 made up of around 2,000 soldiers qualified in cybersecurity, the defense minister said on Thursday after formally approving it.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-12 16:07:02 WatchBog Crypto-Mining Botnet Relies on Pastebin for C&C (lien direct) The WatchBog cryptocurrency-mining botnet is heavily reliant on the Pastebin website for command and control (C&C) operations, Cisco Talos' security researchers reveal.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-12 15:49:02 Simjacker: SIM Card Attack Used to Spy on Mobile Phone Users (lien direct) Researchers at AdaptiveMobile Security, a firm that specializes in cyber telecoms security, have disclosed a new SIM card attack method that could work against over 1 billion mobile phones, and they claim it has already been exploited by a surveillance company to track users.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-12 15:00:04 Securing a Connected Future: 5G and IoT Security (lien direct) Organizations Must be Wary of the Security Implications of Transitioning to 5G 
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-12 13:31:01 Iran-Linked Hackers Again Target Universities (lien direct) Iran-linked threat actor COBALT DICKENS has launched a new phishing campaign targeting universities around the world, similar to an operation launched in August 2018, Secureworks reveals. Threat
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-12 13:24:01 Cloud Security Firm Lacework Raises $42 Million (lien direct) Funding Will Help Company Expand DevOps and Workload Security Offerings for Cloud, Container, and Hybrid Environments
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-12 13:13:01 North Korean Hackers Use New Tricks in Attacks on U.S. (lien direct) Hackers linked to North Korea have been targeting entities in the United States using evasion techniques that involve an uncommon file format, U.S.-based business compromise intelligence startup Prevailion reported on Wednesday.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-12 10:02:03 (Déjà vu) Microsoft Makes Automated Incident Response in Office 365 ATP Generally Available (lien direct) The Automated Incident Response feature in Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is now generally available, Microsoft has announced. Threat
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-12 08:33:05 Credential Leaking Vulnerabilities Impact Comba, D-Link Routers (lien direct) Trustwave security researchers have discovered five new credential leaking vulnerabilities, two in a D-Link DSL modem and three in multiple Comba Telecom WiFi devices.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-12 08:20:04 Chinese Woman Guilty of Trespassing at Trump\'s Mar-a-Lago (lien direct) A Chinese woman who stirred fears of espionage when she entered President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort carrying multiple mobile phones and a malware-spiked thumb drive was found guilty of trespassing and lying in a Florida court Wednesday.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-11 17:03:01 DNS-over-HTTPS Coming to Chrome 78 (lien direct) In an attempt to improve the privacy and security of its users, Google is getting ready to bring DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) to the Chrome browser.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-11 16:20:02 Loss to BEC Fraud Now Claimed to be $26 Billion (lien direct) The FBI has published upgraded figures from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) describing business email compromise (BEC) as a $26 billion scam. The figure is aggregated from 166,349 domestic and international victim complaints received by IC3 between June 2016 and July 2019 comprising a total loss of $26,201,775,589.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-11 15:30:01 Telegram Failed to Delete Removed Images From Local Storage (lien direct) The Telegram secure messaging application was found to breach users' privacy by failing to properly remove images from a device's local storage when the sender selects to delete them for all recipients.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-11 15:16:00 (Déjà vu) Chrome 77 Released with 52 Security Fixes (lien direct) Google this week released Chrome 77 in the stable channel with various fixes and improvements, including 52 security patches.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-11 14:43:03 SAP Patches Critical Vulnerability in NetWeaver (lien direct) Four of the Security Notes published by SAP as part of the September 2019 Security Patch Day are rated Hot News, the same as last month. Vulnerability
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-11 14:32:02 18 Years later, America Vows to \'Never Forget\' 9/11 (lien direct) Americans commemorated 9/11 with solemn ceremonies and vows Wednesday to “never forget” 18 years after the deadliest terror attack on American soil.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-11 12:57:02 Siemens Issues Advisories for DejaBlue, SACK Panic Vulnerabilities (lien direct) Siemens on Tuesday released several security advisories, including ones covering recently disclosed vulnerabilities tracked as DejaBlue, Urgent/11 and SACK Panic.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-11 09:51:05 NetCAT Attack: Hackers Can Remotely Steal Data From Servers With Intel CPUs (lien direct) Researchers have discovered yet another side-channel attack method that can be exploited to steal potentially sensitive data from devices powered by Intel processors.
SecurityWeek.webp 2019-09-11 05:21:04 Hundreds Arrested in Joint US-Nigeria Crackdown on Cyber Scams (lien direct) Nigerian and US authorities said Tuesday that nearly 300 people had been arrested in a months-long global crackdown on online scams to hijack wire transfers from companies and individuals.
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