Security News > 2023 > January
Whether an infection is the result of a disgruntled employee, hardware vulnerability, software-based threat, social engineering penetration, robotic attack or human error, all organizations must...
Cacti servers under attack by attackers exploiting CVE-2022-46169If you're running the Cacti network monitoring solution and you haven't updated it since early December, now is the time to do it to foil attackers exploiting a critical command injection flaw. PoC for critical ManageEngine bug to be released, so get patching!If your enterprise is running ManageEngine products that were affected by CVE-2022-47966, check now whether they've been updated to a non-vulnerable version because Horizon3 will be releasing technical details and a PoC exploit this week.
Riot Games, the video game developer and publisher behind League of Legends and Valorant, says it will delay game patches after its development environment was compromised last week. Riot Games also added that the breach directly impacted its ability to publish patches for its games.
Threat actors now use OneNote attachments in phishing emails that infect victims with remote access malware which can be used to install further malware, steal passwords, or even cryptocurrency wallets. This comes after attackers have been distributing malware in emails using malicious Word and Excel attachments that launch macros to download and install malware for years.
Threat actors now use OneNote attachments in phishing emails that infect victims with remote access malware which can be used to install further malware, steal passwords, or even cryptocurrency wallets. This comes after attackers have been distributing malware in emails using malicious Word and Excel attachments that launch macros to download and install malware for years.
A massive ad fraud operation dubbed 'Vastflux' that spoofed more than 1,700 applications from 120 publishers, mostly for iOS, has been disrupted by security researchers at cybersecurity company HUMAN. The operation's name was derived from the VAST ad-serving template and the "Fast flux" evasion technique used to conceal malicious code by rapidly changing a large number of IP addresses and DNS records associated with a single domain. The research team at HUMAN discovered Vastflux while investigating a separate ad fraud scheme.
Publisher's Weekly reviewed A Hacker's Mind-and it's a starred review! "Hacking is something that the rich and powerful do, something that reinforces existing power structures," contends security technologist Schneier in this excellent survey of exploitation.
There has been quite a bit of ransomware news this week, with crypto exchanges being seized for alleged money laundering and researchers providing fascinating reports on the behavior of ransomware operators. For those who want to learn more about the rise of the most prominent ransomware operation at this time, you should definitely give DiMaggio's Unlocking LockBit - a Ransomware Story a read. The US and France also conducted a law enforcement operation where they seized the domain and arrested the operator of the Bizlato crypto exchange for allegedly money laundering crypto proceeds generated from ransomware and illegal drug transaction.
Here's a new video of a giant squid, filmed in the Sea of Japan. It's so close to the surface, and not really moving very much.
Over 19,000 end-of-life Cisco VPN routers on the Internet are exposed to attacks targeting a remote command execution exploit chain. By chaining two security flaws disclosed last week, threat actors can bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of Cisco Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 routers.