The UK government has signed what it claims to be a “world-first” charter with some of the biggest technology companies on the planet, which will see the latter commit to blocking and removing fraudulent content from their platforms. Announced late yesterday, the Online Fraud Charter is a voluntary agreement for technology firms to better police fraud
Dec 04, 2023NewsroomTechnology / Firmware Security The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) code from various independent firmware/BIOS vendors (IBVs) has been found vulnerable to potential attacks through high-impact flaws in image parsing libraries embedded into the firmware. The shortcomings, collectively labeled LogoFAIL by Binarly, “can be used by threat actors to deliver a malicious payload
Apple has been forced to patch yet another pair of zero-day vulnerabilities, bringing the total for the year to 20. The tech giant said that the two bugs in its WebKit browser engine were being actively exploited in the wild. The first vulnerability, CVE-2023-42916, is found in a range of Apple products: iPhone XS and
Video Several cases of children creating indecent images of other children using AI software add to the worries about harmful uses of AI technology 01 Dec 2023 It has been reported recently that children are using artificial intelligence (AI) image generators to create indecent images of other children. The reports came amid a few publicized
Dec 02, 2023Newsroom Organizations in the Middle East, Africa, and the U.S. have been targeted by an unknown threat actor to distribute a new backdoor called Agent Racoon. “This malware family is written using the .NET framework and leverages the domain name service (DNS) protocol to create a covert channel and provide different backdoor functionalities,”
The UK’s security agency has urged the nation’s water sector to apply best practice security measures after a US operator was breached via its industrial control systems. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed earlier this week that an unnamed facility had been taken offline and switched to manual operation after its Unitronics
Business Security While it may be too late to introduce wholesale changes to your security policies, it doesn’t hurt to take a fresh look at where the biggest threats are and which best practices can help neutralize them Phil Muncaster 28 Nov 2023 • , 6 min. read The holiday shopping season has begun in
Dec 02, 2023NewsroomCybercrime / Malware A Russian national has been found guilty in connection with his role in developing and deploying a malware known as TrickBot, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced. Vladimir Dunaev, 40, was arrested in South Korea in September 2021 and extradited to the U.S. a month later. “Dunaev developed browser
North Korean hackers have reportedly stolen a total of $3bn in cryptocurrency since 2017, as revealed in a recent report by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group. The revelation underscores the prolonged engagement of the regime in the cryptocurrency sector, transitioning from targeting financial institutions through the SWIFT network to a broader strategy during the 2017 cryptocurrency
Business Security Failing to practice what you preach, especially when you are a juicy target for bad actors, creates a situation fraught with considerable risk Phil Muncaster 30 Nov 2023 • , 5 min. read When it comes to corporate cybersecurity, leading by example matters. Yes, it’s important for every employee to play their part
Dec 01, 2023NewsroomFirewall / Network Security Zyxel has released patches to address 15 security issues impacting network-attached storage (NAS), firewall, and access point (AP) devices, including three critical flaws that could lead to authentication bypass and command injection. The three vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2023-35138 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A command injection vulnerability that
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a critical vulnerability, CVE-2023-46604, in Apache systems. Over the past few weeks, Fortiguard Labs identified multiple threat actors leveraging this vulnerability to unleash several malware strains. Among the discoveries is the emergence of a newly discovered Golang-based botnet named GoTitan. This sophisticated botnet has raised concerns due to its ability
Digital Security The technology is both widely available and well developed, hence it’s also poised to proliferate – especially in the hands of those wishing ill Cameron Camp 29 Nov 2023 • , 2 min. read Who would be to blame if your plane got tricked into flying into a war zone? If GPS gets
Nov 30, 2023NewsroomHacking / Cryptocurrency The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions against Sinbad, a virtual currency mixer that has been put to use by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group to launder ill-gotten proceeds. “Sinbad has processed millions of dollars’ worth of virtual currency from Lazarus Group heists, including the Horizon Bridge and Axie
Security researchers have uncovered the continuation and expansion of an Android mobile banking Trojan campaign targeting major Iranian banks. Initially discovered in July 2023, the campaign has not only persisted but has also evolved with enhanced capabilities, according to a new report by Zimperium malware analysts Aazim Bill SE Yaswant and Vishnu Pratapagiri. A prior
Nov 29, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Data Breach Identity services provider Okta has disclosed that it detected “additional threat actor activity” in connection with the October 2023 breach of its support case management system. “The threat actor downloaded the names and email addresses of all Okta customer support system users,” the company said in a statement
Fidelity National Financial (FNF) has disclosed a cybersecurity incident that prompted the company to take down certain systems. The company made the announcement in a recent Form 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dated November 19 2023. A prominent player in the real estate and mortgage industry, FNF said it initiated an immediate
Scams, Cybercrime The holiday shopping season may be the time to splurge, but it’s a also favorite time of year for cybercriminals to target shoppers with phony deals, phishing scams and other threats Phil Muncaster 27 Nov 2023 • , 5 min. read The holiday shopping season is in full swing. It involves a seemingly
Nov 28, 2023NewsroomMalware / Cyber Espionage The North Korean threat actors behind macOS malware strains such as RustBucket and KANDYKORN have been observed “mixing and matching” different elements of the two disparate attack chains, leveraging RustBucket droppers to deliver KANDYKORN. The findings come from cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, which also tied a third macOS-specific malware called
Security researchers have warned of triple-digit increase in the volume of phishing emails designed to trick shoppers, ahead of the Black Friday online sales bonanza which starts today. For the past few years, the Amazon-inspired event has signaled the unofficial start of the busy shopping season running through to the end of December. However, it
Nov 27, 2023NewsroomArtificial Intelligence / Privacy The U.K. and U.S., along with international partners from 16 other countries, have released new guidelines for the development of secure artificial intelligence (AI) systems. “The approach prioritizes ownership of security outcomes for customers, embraces radical transparency and accountability, and establishes organizational structures where secure design is a top
Security researchers have found a way to bypass the popular Windows Hello fingerprint authentication technology, after discovering multiple vulnerabilities. Microsoft’s Offensive Research and Security Engineering (MORSE) asked Blackwing Intelligence to evaluate the security of the top three fingerprint sensors embedded in laptops. The firm studied a Dell Inspiron 15, a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 and a Microsoft
Video ESET’s research team reveals details about the onboarding process of the Telekopye scam operation and the various methods that the fraudsters use to defraud people online 24 Nov 2023 How do aspiring fraudsters become members of a scam operation that helps them defraud people on online marketplaces? ESET researchers recently discovered and analyzed Telekopye,
Nov 25, 2023NewsroomData Security / Vulnerability The maintainers of the open-source file-sharing software ownCloud have warned of three critical security flaws that could be exploited to disclose sensitive information and modify files. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is as follows – Disclosure of sensitive credentials and configuration in containerized deployments impacting graphapi versions from
House sales and purchases across the UK have been disrupted by a cyber-attack affecting multiple conveyancing firms. CTS, a legal sector specialist infrastructure service provider, confirmed in a statement that it has experienced a service outage caused by a cyber-incident. The firm said the cyber-attack has impacted a portion of the services it delivers to
We recently published a blogpost about Telekopye, a Telegram bot that helps cybercriminals scam people in online marketplaces. Telekopye can craft phishing websites, emails, SMS messages, and more. In the first part, we wrote about technical details of Telekopye and hinted at hierarchical structure of its operational groups. In this second part, we focus on
Nov 25, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Threat Intelligence An unspecified government entity in Afghanistan was targeted by a previously undocumented web shell called HrServ in what’s suspected to be an advanced persistent threat (APT) attack. The web shell, a dynamic-link library (DLL) named “hrserv.dll,” exhibits “sophisticated features such as custom encoding methods for client communication and
The Akamai Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) has detected increased activity targeting a rarely used TCP port across its global honeypots. The investigation conducted in late October 2023 revealed a specific HTTP exploit path, identifying two zero-day exploits being actively leveraged in the wild. The first exploit targeted network video recorders (NVRs) used in CCTV
Digital Security AI-driven voice cloning can make things far too easy for scammers – I know because I’ve tested it so that you don’t have to learn about the risks the hard way. Jake Moore 22 Nov 2023 • , 6 min. read The recent theft of my voice brought me to a new fork in the
Nov 24, 2023NewsroomCloud security / Data Protection Cybersecurity researchers are warning of publicly exposed Kubernetes configuration secrets that could put organizations at risk of supply chain attacks. “These encoded Kubernetes configuration secrets were uploaded to public repositories,” Aqua security researchers Yakir Kadkoda and Assaf Morag said in a new research published earlier this week. Some
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