Security News

Baddies linked to Iran fingered for DNS hijacking to read Middle Eastern regimes' emails
2019-01-10 14:04

'Almost unprecedented' attacks use the old man-in-the-middle diddle – infoseccers Infosec biz FireEye has suggested Iran may be responsible for what it claims are DNS hijacking attacks aimed at...

Iran-Linked DNS Hijacking Attacks Target Organizations Worldwide
2019-01-10 09:24

A DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various sectors around the world may be the work of the Iranian government, FireEye reported on Wednesday. read more

Hijacking Online Accounts Via Hacked Voicemail Systems
2018-12-28 15:24

Proof-of-concept hack of a voicemail systems shows how it can lead to account takeovers multiple online services.

Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Relied on BGP Hijacking
2018-12-28 12:43

This is a really interesting story of an ad fraud scheme that relied on hijacking the Border Gateway Protocol: Members of 3ve (pronounced "eve") used their large reservoir of trusted IP addresses...

Secure Messaging Applications Prone to Session Hijacking
2018-12-11 15:27

Secure messaging applications such as Telegram, Signal and WhatsApp can expose user messages through a session hijacking attack, Cisco’s Talos security researchers warn.  read more

Mitigating the risk of Office 365 account hijacking
2018-12-10 10:56

Office 365 – the online, subscription-based version of Microsoft’s Office application suite – is one the most widely used enterprise cloud applications/services, which makes it the preferred...

Google’s G Suite, Search and Analytics Taken Down in Hijacking
2018-11-13 17:44

Google cloud business customers were impacted by a Border Gateway Protocol hijacking.

Stop us if you've heard this one: Remote code hijacking flaw in Apache Struts, patch ASAP
2018-11-07 01:49

Advisory issued over yet another critical security vulnerability The Apache Foundation is urging developers to update their Struts 2 installations and projects using the code – after a critical...

PoC Exploit Compromises Microsoft Live Accounts via Subdomain Hijacking
2018-11-01 15:44

Poor DNS housekeeping opens the door to account takeover.

China hijacking internet traffic using BGP, claim researchers
2018-10-30 11:28

Researchers claim that unusual BGP routing changes are actually man-in-the-middle surveillance.