Security News

Hackers say they encrypted Belarusian Railway servers in protest
2022-01-24 17:34

A group of hackers claim they breached and encrypted servers belonging to the Belarusian Railway, Belarus's national state-owned railway company. "At the command of the terrorist Lukashenka, Belarusian Railway allows the occupying troops to enter our land," the group said today on Twitter.

Dark Souls servers taken down to prevent hacks using critical bug
2022-01-24 11:58

Bandai Namco has deactivated the online PvP mode for the Dark Souls role-playing game, taking its servers offline to investigate reports about a severe security issue that may pose a risk to players. Bandai Namco allegedly ignored the report but given the severity of the flaw, the reporter decided to demonstrate it on popular streamers to raise awareness and show how critical it is.

Dark Souls PvP servers taken down to investigate severe RCE flaw
2022-01-24 11:58

Bandai Namco has deactivated the online PvP mode for the Dark Souls role-playing game, taking its servers offline to investigate reports about a severe security issue that may pose a risk to players. The issue became widely known on Saturday in a post on Discord clarifying that the game developer received details about the RCE vulnerability in a responsible disclosure report straight from the person who discovered it.

Critical Bugs in Control Web Panel Expose Linux Servers to RCE Attacks
2022-01-21 23:25

Researchers have disclosed details of two critical security vulnerabilities in Control Web Panel that could be abused as part of an exploit chain to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution on affected servers. Tracked as CVE-2021-45467, the issue concerns a case of a file inclusion vulnerability, which occurs when a web application is tricked into exposing or running arbitrary files on the web server.

Google Details Two Zero-Day Bugs Reported in Zoom Clients and MMR Servers
2022-01-21 22:28

An exploration of zero-click attack surface for the popular video conferencing solution Zoom has yielded two previously undisclosed security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to crash the service, execute malicious code, and even leak arbitrary areas of its memory. Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero, who discovered and reported the two flaws last year, said the issues impact both Zoom clients and Multimedia Router servers, which transmit audio and video content between clients in on-premise deployments.

Windows Server 2019 OOB update fixes reboots, Hyper-V, ReFS bugs
2022-01-18 23:14

Microsoft has released an emergency out-of-band update for Windows Server 2019 that fixes numerous critical bugs introduced during the January 2022 Patch Tuesday. Soon after Windows Server admins installed the January 2022 updates, they began reporting severe issues, including domain controllers entering into boot loops, Hyper-V no longer starting, L2TP VPN connections failing, and ReFS volumes becoming inaccessible.

Crypto.com acknowledges 'unauthorized activity' on servers, maintains no funds have been lost
2022-01-18 21:12

Crypto.com, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, has denied reports that the firm lost nearly $15m in Ethereum in a possible network intrusion over the weekend. According to blockchain biz PeckShield, Crypto.com lost about $14.3m or 4,600 ETH, based on its analysis of public blockchain addresses.

International police shut down 15 server infrastructures as part of VPNLab.net's takedown
2022-01-18 17:01

Some 15 server infrastructures used by crims to prepare ransomware attacks were seized by cops yesterday as part of an international sting to take down VPNLab.net. The VPN provider's service gave users "Shielded communications and internet access" that was used in "Support of serious criminals acts such as ransomware deployment and other cybercrime activities," Europol said today.

Critical ManageEngine Desktop Server Bug Opens Orgs to Malware
2022-01-18 15:44

A critical security vulnerability in the Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central and Desktop Central MSP platforms could allow authentication bypass, the company has warned. Zoho's ManageEngine Desktop Central is a unified endpoint management solution that lets IT admins manage servers, laptops, desktops, smartphones and tablets from a central location.

Microsoft patches the patch that broke VPNs, Hyper-V, and left servers in boot loops
2022-01-18 11:34

Microsoft has patched the patch that broke chunks of Windows and emitted fixes for a Patch Tuesday cock-up that left servers rebooting and VPNs disconnected. On the receiving end of the company's attention were Windows desktop and Windows Server installs left a little broken following Microsoft's latest demonstration of its legendary quality control.