Tag: computer
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US Military, Defense Contractors Infected with Infostealers: Hudson Rock
A report by cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock says hundreds of computers from the U.S. Army and Navy and defense contractors like Honeywell and Boeing are infected with infostealer malware, endangering the security of the systems and threatening third-party players. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/02/us-military-defense-contractors-infected-with-infostealers-hudson-rock/
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New family of data-stealing malware leverages Microsoft Outlook
certutil application which handles certificates, to download files.Espionage seems to be the motive, says the report, and there are Windows and Linux versions of the malware. But fortunately the gang “exhibited poor campaign management and inconsistent evasion tactics,” it notes. Nevertheless, CISOs should be watching for signs of attack using this group’s techniques, because their…
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Cyberangriff auf eine Staatsanwaltschaft in Virginia, USA
Virginia Attorney General’s office struck by cyberattack targeting attorneys’ computer systems First seen on apnews.com Jump to article: apnews.com/article/attorney-general-jason-miyares-cyberattack-0cf74a899064a72d4532fb0c38f8e382
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USAID staff accuses DOGE of jeopardizing safety, accessing security clearance data
A new lawsuit sheds light on the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) work at USAID, with some employees alleging that DOGE workers had root access to computer systems containing security clearance data, including foreign contacts for an employee who deploys to conflict zones. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/usaid-staff-accuses-doge-improper-access
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Virginia Attorney General’s Office Struck by Cyberattack Targeting Attorneys’ Computer Systems
The chief deputy attorney general of the agency sent an email on Wednesday that said nearly all of is computer systems were offline. The post Virginia Attorney General’s Office Struck by Cyberattack Targeting Attorneys’ Computer Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/virginia-attorney-generals-office-struck-by-cyberattack-targeting-attorneys-computer-systems/
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What is anomaly detection? Behavior-based analysis for cyber threats
a priori the bad thing that you’re looking for,” Bruce Potter, CEO and founder of Turngate, tells CSO. “It’ll just show up because it doesn’t look like anything else or doesn’t look like it’s supposed to. People have been tilting at that windmill for a long time, since the 1980s, trying to figure out what…
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Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data
Some of the world’s leading computer science experts have signed an open letter calling for the Home secretary, Yvette Coooper to drop a controversial secret order to require Apple to provide access to people’s encrypted data First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366619260/Top-cryptography-experts-join-calls-for-UK-to-drop-plans-to-snoop-on-Apples-encrypted-data
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Russian hacking group targets critical infrastructure in the US, the UK, and Canada
Tags: access, attack, blizzard, computer, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, espionage, exploit, fortinet, group, hacker, hacking, infrastructure, intelligence, international, microsoft, military, network, ransomware, russia, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, ukraine, update, vulnerability, zero-trustWeaponizing IT software against global enterprises: Since early 2024, the hackers have exploited vulnerabilities in widely used IT management tools, including ConnectWise ScreenConnect (CVE-2024-1709) and Fortinet FortiClient EMS (CVE-2023-48788). By compromising these critical enterprise systems, the group has gained undetected access to networks, Microsoft warned.”Seashell Blizzard’s specialized operations have ranged from espionage to information operations…
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CHERI Security Hardware Program Essential to UK Security, Says Government
NCSC CTO Ollie Whitehouse discussed a UK government-backed project designed to secure underlying computer hardware, preventing most vulnerabilities from occurring First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cheri-security-hardware-uk-security/
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Adobe-Patchday: Schadcode-Sicherheitslücken gefährden Illustrator & Co.
Angreifer können an mehreren Sicherheitslücken in Anwendungen von Adobe ansetzen, um Computer zu kompromittieren. First seen on heise.de Jump to article: www.heise.de/news/Adobe-Patchday-Schadcode-Sicherheitsluecken-gefaehrden-Illustrator-Co-10279209.html
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Cyberangriff auf einen Rettungsdienst in Nevada, USA
Cyberattack temporarily disrupts computer operations at REMSA Health First seen on 2news.com Jump to article: www.2news.com/news/local/cyberattack-temporarily-disrupts-computer-operations-at-remsa-health/article_6419666c-e8b2-11ef-9607-2fab8f3c70ce.html
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UK monitoring group to classify cyber incidents on earthquake-like scale
Risk management: The CMC hopes this increased understanding will spur the development of improved incident response planning. Experts quizzed by CSO on CMC welcomed its launch.Ivan Milenkovich, vice president of cyber risk technology in EMEA at Qualys, said data from the CMC has the potential to allow IT security professionals to make better risk assessments,…
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Enhancements for BloodHound v7.0 Provide Fresh User Experience and Attack Path Risk Optimizations
Tags: access, attack, ciso, computer, control, cybersecurity, data, group, identity, incident response, metric, radius, risk, risk-assessment, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeneral Availability of Improved Analysis Algorithm and Security Posture Management Improvements The BloodHound team previewed several concepts in the last couple of releases that made it easier for customers to visualize attack paths and show improvements in identity risk reduction over time. This week’s release of BloodHound v7.0 includes significant enhancements focused on improving user experience…
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OpenSSL patched high-severity flaw CVE-2024-12797
OpenSSL patched the vulnerability CVE-2024-12797, a high-severity flaw found by Apple that enables man-in-the-middle attacks. The OpenSSL Project addressed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12797, in its secure communications library. The OpenSSL software library allows secure communications over computer networks against eavesdropping or need to identify the party at the other end. OpenSSL contains an open-source implementation…
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What Is Penetration Testing? Complete Guide Steps
Penetration testing evaluates the security of a computer system or network. Learn more about penetesting now. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/networks/penetration-testing/
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Bipartisan Senate bill would strengthen cybercrime penalties
The legislation from Sens. Rounds and Gillibrand would amend federal criminal code on computer fraud and stiffen punishments. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cybercrime-computer-fraud-bill-senate/
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CERT-In Warns of High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a vulnerability note (CIVN-2025-0016) highlighting a series of Mozilla vulnerability, including Firefox and Thunderbird. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/critical-vulnerabilities-in-mozilla-products/
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Secret Taliban records published online after hackers breach computer systems
The Taliban government of Afghanistan is reeling after unidentified hackers successfully carried out a massive cyber attack against its computer systems and published over 50GB of stolen documents and files online. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/taliban-records-online-hackers-breach
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Worker distraction is on the rise. Digital employee experience (DEX) platforms can help
With the dramatic increase in remote work in the last few years, many of us are actually working longer hours, ricocheting between communication platforms, learning new systems on the fly, and struggling to fix our own tech issues.It’s all adding up to a new kind of burnoutIt’s also focusing renewed attention on the digital employee experience…
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Police arrest teenager suspected of hacking NATO and numerous Spanish institutions
Spain’s National Police, in a joint operation with the Civil Guard, has arrested an 18-year-old suspected of being the hacker going by aliases including “Natohub,” and known for hacking the computer services of private companies and Spanish institutions such as the Civil Guard, the Ministry of Defense, the National Mint, and the Ministry of Education,…
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Researchers Link DeepSeek’s Blockbuster Chatbot to Chinese Telecom Banned From Doing Business in US
DeepSeek has computer code that could send some user login information to China Mobile. The post Researchers Link DeepSeek’s Blockbuster Chatbot to Chinese Telecom Banned From Doing Business in US appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/researchers-link-deepseeks-blockbuster-chatbot-to-chinese-telecom-banned-from-doing-business-in-us/
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How to Add Fingerprint Authentication to Your Windows 11 Computer
You can easily add a fingerprint reader to your computer if one isn’t already built in. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-add-fingerprint-authentication-to-windows-11-computer/
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Global ransomware payments plunge by a third amid crackdown
Money stolen falls from record $1.25bn to $813m as more victims refuse to pay off criminal gangsRansomware payments fell by more than a third last year to $813m (£650m) as victims refused to pay cybercriminals and law enforcement cracked down on gangs, figures reveal.The decline in such cyber-attacks where access to a computer or its…
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New trojan hijacks Linux and IoT devices
There’s a new trojan on the block, one that specifically targets network appliances and internet of things (IoT) devices running the open-source Linux operating system.FortiGuard Labs has identified a new malware kit, dubbed “ELF/Sshdinjector.A!tr”, that has the ability to infect and remotely control systems, establish root privilege, maintain malware presence, exfiltrate data such as user…
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Hackers impersonate DeepSeek to distribute malware
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, breach, china, cloud, computer, credentials, cyberattack, data, hacker, infrastructure, leak, LLM, malicious, malware, ml, pypi, threat, tool, vulnerabilityTo make things worse than they already are for DeepSeek, hackers are found flooding the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository with fake DeepSeek packages carrying malicious payloads.According to a discovery made by Positive Expert Security Center (PT ESC), a campaign was seen using this trick to dupe unsuspecting developers, ML engineers, and AI enthusiasts looking…
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Musk’s DOGE effort could spread malware, expose US systems to threat actors
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, ceo, cio, computer, computing, control, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, email, exploit, governance, government, hacking, infection, infosec, international, jobs, malicious, malware, network, office, privacy, ransomware, risk, service, technology, threat, toolOver the past 10 days, an astonishing series of actions by Elon Musk via his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project has elevated the cybersecurity risk of some of the most sensitive computing systems in the US government. Musk and his team of young, inexperienced engineers, at least one of whom is not a US…
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Further Adventures With CMPivot”Š”, “ŠClient Coercion
Further Adventures With CMPivot”Š”, “ŠClient Coercion Perfectly Generated AI Depiction based on Title TL:DR CMPivot queries can be used to coerce SMB authentication from SCCM client hosts Introduction CMPivot is a component part of the Configuration Manager framework. With the rise in popularity for ConfigMgr as a target in red team operations, this post looks to cover a…
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5 Encrypted Attack Predictions for 2025
Tags: access, ai, apt, attack, automation, cloud, communications, computer, computing, control, cryptography, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, data, data-breach, defense, detection, email, encryption, exploit, government, group, india, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, malicious, malware, network, phishing, ransomware, risk, service, tactics, technology, threat, update, vpn, zero-trustThe cyberthreat landscape of 2024 was rife with increasingly sophisticated threats, and encryption played a pivotal role”, a staggering 87.2% of threats were hidden in TLS/SSL traffic. The Zscaler cloud blocked 32.1 billion attempted encrypted attacks, a clear demonstration of the growing risk posed by cybercriminals leveraging encryption to evade detection. ThreatLabz reported that malware…