Security News

Business Email Compromise: Battling Advanced Attackers
2019-11-05 16:48

Ultra-Lucrative Campaigns Continue, Warns David Stubley of 7 ElementsMany businesses don't seem to be able to block the ongoing scourge of sophisticated business email compromise schemes....

Vendor Email Compromise is Latest Identity Deception Attack
2019-11-04 18:19

Identity deception attacks continue to grow, but the type of attack seems to be changing. During Q3, 2019, phishing campaigns impersonating brands dropped by 6% over the previous quarter. Attacks...

Chinese Hackers Compromise Telecom Servers to Spy on SMS Messages
2019-10-31 14:34

A group of Chinese hackers carrying out political espionage for Beijing has been found targeting telecommunications companies with a new piece of malware designed to spy on text messages sent or...

Turla Compromises, Infiltrates Iranian APT Infrastructure
2019-10-21 17:52

The Russian-speaking APT stole the Neuron and Nautilus implants and accessed the Iranian APT's C2 infrastructure.

Avast breached by hackers who wanted to compromise CCleaner again
2019-10-21 10:39

Czech security software maker Avast has suffered another malicious intrusion into their networks, but the attackers didn’t accomplish what they apparently wanted: compromise releases of the...

Four-Year-Old Critical Linux Wi-Fi Bug Allows System Compromise
2019-10-18 15:55

A patch is currently under revision but has not yet been incorporated into the Linux kernel.

The Ultimate Missing Link in Cyber: Continuous Compromise Assessment
2019-10-16 18:33

According to Ricardo Villadiego, Lumu Technologies' Founder and CEO, organizations are "sitting on a gold mine: their own data". Under the single premise that organizations should assume they are...

New Reductor Nation-State Malware Compromises TLS
2019-10-10 18:49

Kaspersky has a detailed blog post about a new piece of sophisticated malware that it's calling Reductor. The malware is able to compromise TLS traffic by infecting the computer with hacked TLS...

Microsoft NTLM vulnerabilities could lead to full domain compromise
2019-10-10 12:58

Preempt researchers have discovered two vulnerabilities that may allow attackers to bypass a number of protections and mitigations against NTLM relay attacks and, in some cases, to achieve full...

WhatsApp vulnerability could compromise Android smartphones
2019-10-04 12:10

A researcher has released details of a WhatsApp flaw that could be used to compromise the app and the mobile device the app is running on.