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"As a result of COVID-19 and associated global trends, demand for malicious and illicit goods, services and data have reached new peak highs across dark web marketplaces," said researchers in a Friday analysis. Upon a deep-dive investigation into the underground marketplace, researchers found that the pricing for stolen payment cards has soared in 2020; jumping from $14.64 in 2019 to $20.16 in 2020.
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is a fully managed service that enables enterprise IoT developers to easily connect low power wireless devices over long range, wide-area networks to AWS without developing or operating their own LoRaWAN server. To get started with AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, IoT developers can source AWS qualified gateways operating the LoRaWAN protocol from the AWS Partner Device Catalog and select an array of LoRaWAN CertifiedCM devices from the LoRa Alliance website.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has disclosed a zero-day bug in the latest versions of its proprietary HPE Systems Insight Manager software for Windows and Linux. HPE SIM is a management and remote support automation solution for multiple HPE servers, storage, and networking products including but not limited to HPE ProLiant Gen10 and HPE ProLiant Gen9 Servers.
Two thousand servers containing 45 million images of X-rays and other medical scans were left online during the course of the past twelve months, freely accessible by anyone, with no security protections at all. Among the data - drawn from unprotected online storage devices with ties to hospitals and medical centres all over the planet - were 23,000 images of UK patients, left exposed to the public internet on 90 separate servers.
A new wormable botnet that spreads via GitHub and Pastebin to install cryptocurrency miners and backdoors on target systems has returned with expanded capabilities to compromise web applications, IP cameras, and routers. Early last month, researchers from Juniper Threat Labs documented a crypto-mining campaign called "Gitpaste-12," which used GitHub to host malicious code containing as many as 12 known attack modules that are executed via commands downloaded from a Pastebin URL. The attacks occurred during a 12-day period starting from October 15, 2020, before both the Pastebin URL and repository were shut down on October 30, 2020.
A "Malwareless" ransomware campaign delivered from UK IP addresses targeting weak security controls around internet-facing SQL servers successfully pwned 83,000 victims, according to Israeli infosec biz Guardicore. "The attack chain is extremely simple and exploits weak credentials on internet-facing MySQL servers" said Guardicore's Ophir Harpaz in a technical advisory today, estimating that there around five million MySQL servers accessible from the public internet.
Ransomware actors behind the attack have breached at least 85,000 MySQL servers, and are currently selling at least compromised 250,000 databases. Researchers said that PLEASE READ ME is an example of an untargeted, transient ransomware attack that does not spend time in the network besides targeting what's required for the actual attack - meaning there's typically no lateral movement involved.
The server-client communication in certain versions of the WinZip file compression tool is insecure and could be modified to serve malware or fraudulent content to users. WinZip has been a long-standing utility for Windows users with file archiving needs beyond the support built in the operating system.
Critical flaws in a core networking library powering Valve's online gaming functionality could have allowed malicious actors to remotely crash games and even take control over affected third-party game servers. "An attacker could remotely crash an opponent's game client to force a win or even perform a 'nuclear rage quit' and crash the Valve game server to end the game completely," Check Point Research's Eyal Itkin noted in an analysis published today.
Jack Wallen shows you how to make SSH connections even easier from your macOS machine. You probably use SSH to connect to remote machines for admin purposes.