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The Vice Society ransomware gang is now also actively exploiting Windows print spooler PrintNightmare vulnerability for lateral movement through their victims' networks. PrintNightmare added to Vice Society's arsenal.
AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization scheme is not as secure as its name suggests. In a paper titled "One Glitch to Rule Them All: Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization," Robert Buhren, Hans Niklas Jacob, Thilo Krachenfels, and Jean-Pierre Seifert from TU Berlin's Security in Telecommunications group, describe how they succeeded in mounting a voltage fault injection attack.
Microsoft has disclosed details of an evasive year-long social engineering campaign wherein the operators kept changing their obfuscation and encryption mechanisms every 37 days on average, including relying on Morse code, in an attempt to cover their tracks and surreptitiously harvest user credentials. The phishing attacks take the form of invoice-themed lures mimicking financial-related business transactions, with the emails containing an HTML file.
Microsoft has disclosed details of an evasive year-long social engineering campaign wherein the operators kept changing their obfuscation and encryption mechanisms every 37 days on average, including relying on Morse code, in an attempt to cover their tracks and surreptitiously harvest user credentials. The phishing attacks take the form of invoice-themed lures mimicking financial-related business transactions, with the emails containing an HTML file.
The U.S. is presently combating two pandemics-coronavirus and ransomware attacks. Another contributing factor to the rise in ransomware attacks is the growing number of online users.
The U.S. is presently combating two pandemics-coronavirus and ransomware attacks. Another contributing factor to the rise in ransomware attacks is the growing number of online users.
The survey queried almost 1800 cybersecurity leaders and practitioners about their views specifically on external threat hunting and the people involved in this emerging and increasingly necessary technique organizations are adopting to build their defensive capabilities. In the new findings, half of the attacks on organizations that caused severe business disruption were by repeat offenders - and 61% of those victims said they were unable to remediate these compromises, leaving critical systems and data at risk.
Security vendor Trend Micro has issued a warning for in-the-wild zero-day attacks hitting customers using its Apex One and Apex One as a Service products. In a security bulletin released quietly on July 28, Trend Micro rolled out patches for at least four documented vulnerabilities alongside a warning that malicious attackers are already launching exploits against two of the security defects.
Outsourcing and accounting firm Accenture has been struck by Lockbit ransomware. "LockBit operates under the ransomware-as-a-service business model, whereby ransomware developers lease their ransomware to affiliates who receive a portion of ransom payments received from the attacks they carry out," said the firm's analysis.
The password spraying attack is a special kind of password attack that can prove effective in compromising your environment. While a password spraying attack attempts to bypass this mitigation and can prove successful, password lockout policies are a good line of defense against brute force attacks in general.