Security News > 2017 > March

Cyber criminals targeting healthcare orgs’ FTP servers (Help Net Security)
2017-03-27 21:30

FBI’s Cyber Division has sent out another notification to healthcare organizations, alerting them to the danger of cyber criminals using their FTP servers for various malicious purposes. “The FBI...

New Clues Surface on Shamoon 2’s Destructive Behavior (Threatpost)
2017-03-27 20:51

Researchers report new connections between Magic Hound and Shamoon 2, along with descriptions of how the Disttrack malware component of campaigns moves laterally within infected networks.

APT29 Used Domain Fronting, Tor to Execute Backdoor (Threatpost)
2017-03-27 20:14

APT29, a/k/a Cozy Bear, has used Tor and a technique called domain fronting in order to secure backdoor access to targets for nearly two years running.

Docs.com’s “public by default” setting to blame for users publishing sensitive info? (Help Net Security)
2017-03-27 20:08

The search option on Docs.com, Microsoft’s publishing and file sharing service, has been temporarily disabled as it could be used to trawl published documents for sensitive user information...