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2021-03-08 20:49:12 | How the Microsoft Exchange hack could impact your organization (lien direct) | Cybercriminals are racing to exploit four zero-day bugs in Exchange before more organizations can patch them. | Hack | ||
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2021-03-08 15:17:33 | Hackers compromised Microsoft Exchange servers at the EU Banking Regulator EBA (lien direct) | The European Banking Authority (EBA) disclosed a cyberattack that resulted in the hack of its Microsoft Exchange email system. The European Banking Authority announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack against its email system that exploited recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange. On March 2nd, Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates that […] | Hack | ||
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2021-03-08 13:03:49 | EU Banking Regulator Hit by Microsoft Email Hack (lien direct) | The European Banking Authority, a key EU financial regulator, says it has fallen victim to a hack of its Microsoft email system which the US company blames on a Chinese group. | Hack | ||
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2021-03-08 12:50:00 | Everything you need to know about Microsoft Exchange Server hack (lien direct) | Vulnerabilities are being exploited by Hafnium. Other cyberattackers are following suit. | Hack | ||
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2021-03-08 11:05:59 | European Banking Authority discloses Exchange server hack (lien direct) | The European Banking Authority (EBA) took down all email systems after their Microsoft Exchange Servers were hacked as part of the ongoing attacks targeting organizations worldwide. [...] | Hack | ||
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2021-03-08 08:26:40 | Flagstar Bank customer data breached through Accellion hack (lien direct) | Like many other users, Flagstar Bank has now permanently stopped using the platform. | Hack | ||
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2021-03-08 01:45:28 | Casting a Wide Intrusion Net: Dozens Burned With Single Hack (lien direct) | The SolarWinds hacking campaign blamed on Russian spies and the “grave threat” it poses to U.S. national security are widely known. A very different - and no less alarming - coordinated series of intrusions also detected in December has gotten considerably less public attention. | Hack | ||
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2021-03-06 22:50:07 | Tens of thousands of US organizations hit in ongoing Microsoft Exchange hack (lien direct) | Multiple hacking groups are exploiting vulnerabilities to backdoor unpatched servers. | Hack | ||
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2021-03-06 18:32:04 | Hackers breached four prominent underground cybercrime forums (lien direct) | A suspicious wave of attacks resulted in the hack of four cybercrime forums Verified, Crdclub, Exploit, and Maza since January. Since January, a series of mysterious cyberattacks that resulted in the hack of popular Russian-language cybercrime forums. Unknown threat actors hacked the Verified forum in January, Crdclub in February, and Exploit and Maza in March, […] | Hack Threat | ★★ | |
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2021-03-04 21:52:36 | (Déjà vu) Sunshuttle, the fourth malware allegedly linked to SolarWinds hack (lien direct) | FireEye researchers spotted a new sophisticated second-stage backdoor that was likely linked to threat actors behind the SolarWinds hack. Malware researchers at FireEye discovered a new sophisticated second-stage backdoor, dubbed Sunshuttle, while analyzing the servers of an organization that was compromised as a result of the SolarWinds supply-chain attack. The new malware is dubbed Sunshuttle, and it was […] | Malware Hack Threat | ||
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2021-03-04 18:10:38 | China and Russia\'s Spying Sprees Will Take Years to Unpack (lien direct) | The full extent of the Solarwinds hack and Hafnium's attack on Microsoft Exchange Server may never be known. | Hack | ||
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2021-03-04 11:19:20 | Qualys Confirms Unauthorized Access to Data via Accellion Hack (lien direct) | Hours after the Clop ransomware gang published data allegedly stolen from information security and compliance solutions provider Qualys, the company has confirmed being impacted by the recent cyberattack involving Accellion's FTA product. | Ransomware Hack | ||
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2021-03-02 19:11:55 | Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site\'s CTO (lien direct) | Site executive introduces, then removes, insecure code, then hides the evidence. | Hack | ||
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2021-03-02 17:54:53 | Jailbreak Tool Works on iPhones Up to iOS 14.3 (lien direct) | The UnC0ver team took advantage of an iOS flaw patched in January in its latest tool allowing developers and other enthusiasts to hack into their own devices. | Hack Tool | ||
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2021-03-01 20:41:51 | Passwords, Private Posts Exposed in Hack of Gab Social Network (lien direct) | The Distributed Denial of Secrets group claim they have received more than 70 gigabytes of data exfiltrated from social media platform Gab. | Hack | ||
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2021-03-01 12:12:49 | National Security Risks of Late-Stage Capitalism (lien direct) | Early in 2020, cyberspace attackers apparently working for the Russian government compromised a piece of widely used network management software made by a company called SolarWinds. The hack gave the attackers access to the computer networks of some 18,000 of SolarWinds's customers, including US government agencies such as the Homeland Security Department and State Department, American nuclear research labs, government contractors, IT companies and nongovernmental agencies around the world. It was a huge attack, with major implications for US national security. The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to ... | Hack | ||
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2021-03-01 11:00:00 | 5 Cybersecurity concerns surrounding the COVID vaccine (lien direct) | This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. COVID-19 vaccines are starting to roll out after a year of grappling with the pandemic. While this certainly inspires hope for the future, there are still risks on the road ahead. As distribution ramps up, vaccine-related cybersecurity concerns are also rising. Cybercrime has been a prominent side effect of the pandemic throughout the past year. This wave of cyberattacks shows no signs of slowing as vaccines roll out, with some threat actors targeting distribution. Here are five of the leading cybersecurity concerns surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines. 1. State-sponsored spear-phishing In early December, the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning about cyberattacks targeting the vaccine supply chain. Threat actors sent a series of spear-phishing emails to organizations involved in COVID vaccine storage and transport. These attacks sought to steal network access credentials and, perhaps more troubling, seemed to be government-sponsored. Security experts noted that these attacks seemed too sophisticated for a random criminal operation. While it’s uncertain what country could be behind the spear-phishing attempts, it’s a troubling prospect. Malicious nation-states may be aiming to incite civil or economic disruption. 2. Cold chain IoT attacks Spear-phishing isn’t the only threat that faces the vaccine supply chain. Given the vaccines’ cold storage requirements, some organizations have turned to IoT tracking devices to ensure their safe and timely delivery. These sensors are a potential life-saver for vaccine distribution, but any endpoint represents a potential vulnerability. Most IoT devices today feature little to no built-in security, leaving them vulnerable to criminals. If someone were to hack into these sensors, it could be disastrous. They could interfere with GPS data, adjust storage temperatures or otherwise jeopardize the vaccines. 3. Vaccine scams Since the vaccines have such a short shelf life, effective distribution relies on quickly reaching out to patients and scheduling appointments. Many health care organizations have turned to text-based outreach programs to streamline this process. Unfortunately, fraudsters have started mimicking these organizations to take vulnerable users’ money. Authorities have noticed an uptick in vaccine-related scams as the rollout continues. Many of these specifically target older patients who may be less likely to recognize a hoax. 4. Ransomware attacks As hospitals and other health care organizations vaccinate more people, they acquire more patient data. This highly sensitive information is a potential goldmine for hackers. Consequently, ransomware attacks targeting these organizations may increase as vaccine distribution continues. Ransomware is already a growing problem. Bitdefender’s Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report found that these attacks increased by more than 715% year-over-year in 2020. With vaccinations generating more valuable medical data, this trend could continue to rise. 5. Misinformation campaigns In late January, the European Medicines Agency re | Ransomware Hack Threat Guideline | ||
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2021-02-26 18:29:53 | Chinese Threat Actor Uses Browser Extension to Hack Gmail Accounts (lien direct) | In early 2021, a Chinese threat actor tracked as TA413 attempted to hack into the Gmail accounts of Tibetan organizations using a malicious browser extension, researchers with cybersecurity firm Proofpoint have discovered. | Hack Threat | ||
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2021-02-26 16:12:00 | FBI Investigating Michigan School District Hack (lien direct) | Saginaw Township Community Schools targeted in ransomware attack | Ransomware Hack | ||
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2021-02-26 11:07:04 | Microsoft failed to fix known problems that could have prevented SolarWinds hack (lien direct) | According to the office of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and a number of American security experts, Microsoft could have prevented some of the damage caused by the SolarWinds hack had they fixed known problems in the cloud software that facilitated the hack. As these issues were not fixed it resulted in at least nine federal […] | Hack | ★★★ | |
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2021-02-25 20:31:46 | No, 1,000 engineers were not needed for SolarWinds (lien direct) | Microsoft estimates it would take 1,000 to carry out the famous SolarWinds hacker attacks. This means in reality that it was probably fewer than 100 skilled engineers. I base this claim on the following Tweet: When asked why they think it was 1,000 devs, Brad Smith says they saw an elaborate and persistent set of work. Made an estimate of how much work went into each of these attacks, and asked their own engineers. 1,000 was their estimate.— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 23, 2021 Yes, it would take Microsoft 1,000 engineers to replicate the attacks. But it takes a large company like Microsoft 10-times the effort to replicate anything. This is partly because Microsoft is a big, stodgy corporation. But this is mostly because this is a fundamental property of software engineering, where replicating something takes 10-times the effort of creating the original thing.It's like painting. The effort to produce a work is often less than the effort to reproduce it. I can throw some random paint strokes on canvas with almost no effort. It would take you an immense amount of work to replicate those same strokes -- even to figure out the exact color of paint that I randomly mixed together.Software EngineeringThe process of software engineering is about creating software that meets a certain set of requirements, or a specification. It is an extremely costly process verify the specification is correct. It's like if you build a bridge but forget a piece and the entire bridge collapses.But code slinging by hackers and open-source programmers works differently. They aren't building toward a spec. They are building whatever they can and whatever they want. It takes a tenth, or even a hundredth of the effort of software engineering. Yes, it usually builds things that few people (other than the original programmer) want to use. But sometimes it produces gems that lots of people use.Take my most popular code slinging effort, masscan. I spent about 6-months of total effort writing it at this point. But if you run code analysis tools on it, they'll tell you that it would take several millions of dollars to replicate the amount of code I've written. And that's just measuring the bulk code, not the numerous clever capabilities and innovations in the code.According to these metrics, I'm either a 100x engineer (a hundred times better than the average engineer) or my claim is true that "code slinging" is a fraction of the effort of "software engineering".The same is true of everything the SolarWinds hackers produced. They didn't have to software engineer code according to Microsoft's processes. They only had to sling code to satisfy their own needs. They don't have to train/hire engineers with the skills necessary to meet a specification, they can write the specification according to what their own engineers can produce. They can do whatever they want with the code because they don't have to satisfy somebody else's needs.HackingSomething is similarly true with hacking. Hacking a specific target, a specific way, is very hard. Hacking any target, any way, is easy.Like most well-known hackers, I regularly get those emails asking me to hack somebody's Facebook account. This is very hard. I can try a lot of things, and in the end, chances are I cannot succeed. On the other hand, if you ask me to hack anybody's Facebook account, I can do that in seconds. I can download one of the many ha | Hack | ||
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2021-02-25 17:31:00 | Steris Touted as Latest Accellion Hack Victim (lien direct) | Data of Accellion client advertised for sale online by Clop ransomware group | Ransomware Hack | ||
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2021-02-24 18:02:00 | CrowdStrike Slams Microsoft Over SolarWinds Hack (lien direct) | Tech companies point fingers at customers and one another in SolarWinds Senate hearing | Hack | ||
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2021-02-24 01:11:22 | Tech Firms Say There\'s Little Doubt Russia Behind Major Hack (lien direct) | Leading technology companies said Tuesday that a months-long breach of corporate and government networks was so sophisticated, focused and labor-intensive that a nation had to be behind it, with all the evidence pointing to Russia. | Hack Guideline | ||
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2021-02-23 23:28:16 | Airplane maker Bombardier data posted on ransomware leak site following FTA hack (lien direct) | Bombardier is the latest in a long string of hacks caused by companies using old versions of the Accellion FTA file-sharing server. | Ransomware Hack | ||
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2021-02-23 13:09:33 | Australian Health and Transport Agencies Hit by Accellion Hack (lien direct) | Transport for NSW, which is the main transport and roads agency in New South Wales, Australia, and NSW Health, the state's ministry of health, are the latest confirmed victims of a cyber-attack targeting Accellion's FTA file transfer service. | Hack | ||
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2021-02-22 18:54:00 | Former Employee Behind Earthquakes Stadium Hack (lien direct) | Spiteful fired employee lost San Jose stadium concessionaire hundreds of thousands of dollars | Hack | ||
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2021-02-20 23:13:40 | The US Government is going to respond to the SolarWinds hack very soon (lien direct) | The US is going to respond to the SolarWinds supply chain attack within weeks, national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN. The US will respond within weeks to the devastating SolarWinds supply cyber attack, national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN. “We are in the process now of working through, with the intelligence community and [President […] | Hack | ★★★★ | |
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2021-02-19 20:35:56 | Suspected Russian Hack Fuels New US Action on Cybersecurity (lien direct) | Jolted by a sweeping hack that may have revealed government and corporate secrets to Russia, U.S. officials are scrambling to reinforce the nation's cyber defenses and recognizing that an agency created two years ago to protect America's networks and infrastructure lacks the money, tools and authority to counter such sophisticated threats. | Hack | ||
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2021-02-19 07:28:53 | New Hack Lets Attackers Bypass MasterCard PIN by Using Them As Visa Card (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel attack that could allow criminals to trick a point of sale terminal into transacting with a victim's Mastercard contactless card while believing it to be a Visa card.
The research, published by a group of academics from the ETH Zurich, builds on a study detailed last September that delved into a PIN bypass attack, permitting bad actors to leverage |
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2021-02-18 02:16:44 | US Still Unraveling \'Sophisticated\' Hack of 9 Gov\'t Agencies (lien direct) | U.S. authorities are still working to unravel the full scope of the likely Russian hack that gave the “sophisticated” actor behind the breach complete access to files and email from at least nine government agencies and about 100 private companies, the top White House cybersecurity official said Wednesday. | Hack | ||
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2021-02-17 21:12:56 | U.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million (lien direct) | The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against three men accused of working with the North Korean regime to carry out some of the most damaging cybercrime attacks over the past decade, including the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, the global WannaCry ransomware contagion of 2017, and the theft of roughly $200 million and attempted theft of more than $1.2 billion from banks and other victims worldwide. | Ransomware Hack | Wannacry Wannacry | |
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2021-02-17 11:27:54 | The Solarwinds Hack Is A One Of A Kind And Not The Norm (lien direct) | Following the news around the comments from Microsoft President Brad Smith on the 60 Minutes program about how the recent SolarWinds hack was “the largest and most sophisticated attack, the… | Hack | ||
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2021-02-15 22:00:16 | Hackers Exploit IT Monitoring Tool Centreon to Target Several French Entities (lien direct) | Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as Sandworm has been linked to a three-year-long stealthy operation to hack targets by exploiting an IT monitoring tool called Centreon.
The intrusion campaign - which breached "several French entities" - is said to have started in late 2017 and lasted until 2020, with the attacks particularly impacting web-hosting providers, said the French |
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2021-02-15 17:33:34 | Episode 203: Don\'t Hack The Water and Black Girls Hack Founder Tennisha Martin (lien direct) | In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#203) we talk about the apparent hack of a water treatment plant in Oldsmar Florida with Frank Downs of the firm BlueVoyant. In our second segment: is infosec's lack of diversity a bug or a feature? Tennisha Martin of Black Girls Hack joins us to talk about the many obstacles that black women face...Read the whole entry... _!fbztxtlnk!_ https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/644380242/0/thesecurityledger -->»
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2021-02-15 16:00:57 | Many SolarWinds Customers Failed to Secure Systems Following Hack (lien direct) | Many companies still expose SolarWinds Orion to the internet and have failed to take action following the disclosure of the massive SolarWinds breach, according to RiskRecon, a Mastercard company that specializes in risk assessment. | Hack | ||
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2021-02-15 11:00:00 | CISOs report that ransomware is now the biggest cybersecurity concern in 2021 (lien direct) | This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. As the number of remote working arrangements rose substantially in the last year, cybercriminals were quick to take advantage of these new opportunities. Spam and phishing emails increased in number even more rapidly than telecommuting, and company cybersecurity officers found themselves struggling to keep up. Phishing emails often came with a sinister sidekick - a ransomware attack. It is not surprising then that a recent survey of IT and cybersecurity officers revealed that ransomware attacks are the primary security concern for these professionals in 2021. Organizations have good reason to be concerned about ransomware attacks. Not only are they highly effective, but often companies find that it is simply easier to pay the ransom than try to rectify the problem. This is far from the best solution as it encourages the criminals to continue their attacks, fails to provide any long-term sense of security for the organization, and may incur liability for the organization. This article provides an overview of the rise of ransomware attacks and discusses how security professionals can prepare for and prevent attacks. The anatomy of a ransomware attack Ransomware is essentially a virus that loads onto a user’s computer, where it scans connected drives for files that it then encrypts. The user is also typically locked out of their machine and can only view a screen showing how to make a ransom payment. Ransomware attacks can take many forms, although the most common is to prevent a user from accessing encrypted files or using their machine until the ransom is paid (cryptocurrencies preferred). More malicious ransomware attacks threaten to release sensitive data to the internet broadly (doxware) or to delete data permanently. Ransomware can reach a user’s machine using a number of vectors, the most common of which is a phishing attack. However, malicious websites or popups may also provide access for ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks can also be directly injected into an organization’s network through unsecured network connections (i.e. if no VPN is used). Or, even more simply, criminals may simply use brute force to hack weak passwords and directly insert the ransomware themselves. Ransomware can also attack vulnerabilities in applications arising during the software development process. It is therefore important to use testing methods, such as static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), that identify these security vulnerabilities continuously while your applications are running. The prevalence of ransomware attacks Overall ransomware constitutes a small portion of all malware attacks; however, they are also some of the most damaging forms of malware-based attacks as the financial and operational consequences can be devastating. The FBI saw a 37% increase in the reporting of ransomware attacks from 2018-2019, and an associated increase of 147% in financial losses. Average ransom demands also soared, reaching nearly $200,000 by the end of 2019. And the total average business costs resulting from a ransomware attack (post-attack costs, lost business costs, new cybersecurity investments, etc.) reached nearly $4.5 million as of early 2020. Exacerbating the ransomware concern is the fact that cybercriminals are now offering | Ransomware Spam Malware Hack | ||
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2021-02-12 20:50:10 | US Court system demands massive changes to court documents after SolarWinds hack (lien direct) | Multiple senators have demanded a hearing on what court officials know about the hackers' access to sensitive filings. The effects could make accessing documents harder for lawyers. | Hack | ||
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2021-02-12 13:44:10 | Industry Reactions to U.S. Water Plant Hack: Feedback Friday (lien direct) |  The U.S.
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2021-02-11 10:04:02 | Smashing Security podcast #214: Valentine scams, SolarWinds, and a data deletion bungle (lien direct) | Fingerprints and DNA records have been deleted from the UK's police database, the SolarWinds hack continues to wreak havoc and raise questions, and we have some advice for how to fall in love safely under lockdown... All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Professor Alan Woodward. | Hack | ||
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2021-02-11 01:02:36 | Poor Password Security Lead to Recent Water Treatment Facility Hack (lien direct) | New details have emerged about the remote computer intrusion at a Florida water treatment facility last Friday, highlighting a lack of adequate security measures needed to bulletproof critical infrastructure environments.
The breach, which occurred last Friday, involved an unsuccessful attempt on the part of an adversary to increase sodium hydroxide dosage in the water supply to dangerous levels |
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2021-02-10 21:20:19 | Hacker Sets Alleged Auction for Witcher 3 Source Code (lien direct) | The ransomware gang behind the hack of CD Projekt Red may be asking for $1 million opening bids for the company's valuable data. | Ransomware Hack | ||
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2021-02-10 16:48:33 | Researcher manages to hack into 35 tech firms (lien direct) | Security researcher, Alex Birsan had an idea last year while working with Justin Gardner, another researcher. This idea led to him being able to gain access to over 35 major tech companies’ internal systems in a supply chain attack. Among these were Microsoft, Apple, Netflix and Uber. This particular supply chain attack is so sophisticated, […] | Hack | Uber | |
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2021-02-10 16:03:00 | (Déjà vu) Researcher Hacks Apple and Microsoft (lien direct) | Novel supply chain attack allows researcher to hack internal systems of major companies | Hack | ||
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2021-02-10 13:49:32 | Supply-Chain Hack Breaches 35 Companies, Including PayPal, Microsoft, Apple (lien direct) | Ethical hacker Alex Birsan developed a way to inject malicious code into open-source developer tools to exploit dependencies in organizations internal applications. | Hack | ||
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2021-02-09 16:14:00 | SolarWinds hack explained: Everything you need to know (lien direct) | Ethical hacker Alex Birsan developed a way to inject malicious code into open-source developer tools to exploit dependencies in organizations internal applications. | Hack | ||
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2021-02-09 15:47:24 | (Déjà vu) Cyberpunk 2077 Video Game Developer Hit by Hack Attack (lien direct) | Polish video game maker CD Projekt RED, the company behind The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, said Tuesday hackers had stolen data in a "targeted cyber attack". "An unidentified actor gained unauthorized access to our internal network, collected certain data belonging to CD PROJEKT capital group, and left a ransom note," the company said on Twitter. | Hack | ||
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2021-02-09 13:04:16 | (Déjà vu) Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack (lien direct) | A researcher managed to hack systems of over 35 major tech companies including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Tesla, Yelp, Tesla, and Uber in a novel software supply chain attack. For his ethical hacking research efforts, the researcher has been awarded over $130,000 in bug bounties. [...] | Hack | Uber Uber | |
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2021-02-09 13:04:16 | Researcher hacks Microsoft, Apple, more in novel supply chain attack (lien direct) | A researcher managed to hack systems of over 35 major tech companies including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Tesla, Yelp, Tesla, and Uber in a novel software supply chain attack. For his ethical hacking research efforts, the researcher has been awarded over $130,000 in bug bounties. [...] | Hack | Uber Uber | |
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2021-02-09 11:00:00 | Zero Trust policies - Not just for humans, but for machines and applications too (lien direct) | This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Hackers are continually finding more and more pathways into an organization’s internal environment. Not only is access widely available, it can also be alarmingly simple. Rather than having to actively hack systems, hackers often just log in using easily-obtained or compromised user identities and credentials. To avert these types of attacks, many organizations have adopted zero trust policies that require a user to provide additional authentication before accessing an organization’s resources and data. Traditional, identity-centric zero trust practices focusing solely on protecting the credentials of human users ignore a substantial set of vulnerabilities, namely those involving interactions between machines, applications and workloads. “Machine identities,” which now outnumber human identities 20:1, present organizations with additional security challenges. To address those challenges, businesses must implement effective processes for recognizing machine identities, provisioning their access to resources, and continuously authenticating identities during interactions with organizational resources. What is Zero Trust? Zero trust security models assume that no identity is inherently trustworthy. All identities are equally distrusted - whether customer, employee, device or process - and require additional authentication. A well-known example of a zero trust policy is the use of multi-factor authentication to verify a user’s identity. Identity authentication issues for machine identities, while similar, become a bit more complicated. But, as discussed below, there are policies and processes an organization should consider when implementing zero trust programs that will effectively protect both human and machine identities. Effective application of Zero Trust policies to machine identities Effective zero trust policies require frequent and continuous validation of all “users.” But to be as effective as possible, the policy must address the question “Who or what constitutes a user?” It is quite normal to think only of human users when the word “identity” is used. But there are any number of intermediate nodes between a human end user and the resources they access within an organization, including devices, applications and networks, as well as the organization’s databases that contain relevant data. In addition to having their own identities, each of these nodes can be associated with and accessed by a number of other identities, whether they be other devices, workloads, microservices, applications or human users. And each identity involved in an interaction, from human user identities to the machine identities, is a potential target for a hacker. Many businesses reach the point of zero trust too late, after a problem such as a breach or a failed security audit has already happened. Prudent businesses, however, implement strong zero trust policies proactively. Effective policies require strong, well-protected, frequently modified credentials and limit access to essential processes and data without negatively impacting interactions and workloads. Zero trust is not a perfect solution with respect to machine identities, but it can be effective. Organizations should consider the f | Hack |
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