Botnet operators can be as clueless about security as their victims, according to Ankit Anubhav, Principal Researcher at NewSky Security, a cyber-security company specialized in IoT security. Anubhav told Bleeping Computer that he recently stumbled upon two databases of two distinct IoT botnets secured with the trivial username and password combination of […]
Updated: Microsoft reportedly acquires the GitHub popular code repository hosting service
Microsoft has reportedly acquired the popular code repository hosting service GitHub, but at the time of writing there is no news about how much Microsoft paid for the platform. Microsoft has reportedly acquired the popular code repository hosting service GitHub. GitHub was last valued at $2 billion in 2015, but […]
Les banques néerlandaises touchées par des attaques informatiques
Les trois principales banques des Pays-Bas, de même que, brièvement, le service néerlandais des impôts, ont été la cible de plusieurs cyberattaques ces derniers jours, bloquant l’accès aux sites web et aux services en ligne, ont-ils fait savoir lundi. Les banques ING, ABN Amro et Rabobank ont souligné que les […]
Block.one piraté : les utilisateurs d’EOS visés par du phishing
Voilà deux jours que le lancement du mainnet d’EOS s’est produit, et, en plus d’une belle envolée dans le prix, les dramas se multiplient. Après la prétendue découverte de failles critiques dans le réseau (qui ont été corrigées) c’est une affaire de phishing qui fait désormais surface, comme nous l’annonce Block.one, la firme […]
Iron cybercrime group uses a new Backdoor based on HackingTeam’s RCS surveillance sw
Security experts at security firm Intezer have recently discovered backdoor, associated with the operation of the Iron cybercrime group, that is based on the leaked source code of Remote Control System (RCS). The Remote Control System (RCS) is the surveillance software developed by the HackingTeam, it was considered a powerful malware that is able […]
Over 115,000 Drupal Sites still vulnerable to Drupalgeddon2, a gift to crooks
Two months after the release of the security updates for the drupalgeddon2 flaw, experts continue to see vulnerable websites running on flawed versions of Drupal that hasn’t installed security patches. In March, the Drupal developers Jasper Mattsson discovered a “highly critical” vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-7600, aka drupalgeddon2, affecting Drupal 7 […]
North Korea-Linked Covellite APT group stopped targeting organizations in the U.S.
A North Korea-linked APT group, tracked by experts at industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos as Covellite, has stopped targeting US organizations. Anyway, the group, that is believed to be linked to the notorious Lazarus APT group, is continuing to target organizations in Europe and East Asia. The group has been around at least since 2017 and […]
Crooks expand the original Mirai botnet code base with new capabilities and improvements
Cybercriminals continue to improve the infamous Mirai botnet by adding new exploits and functionalities, experts warn new dangerous variant will appear in the wild. According to Netscout’s Arbor Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT), cybercriminals continue to improve the dreaded Mirai IoT botnet by adding new exploits and functionalities. The time to market of […]
The VPNFilter Botnet Is Attempting a Comeback
The VPNFilter botnet that was built by Russian cyberspies, which infected over 500,000 routers, and was taken down last week by the FBI is attempting a comeback, according to telemetry data gathered this week. Security researchers from JASK and GreyNoise Intelligence revealed on Friday that they had detected the same threat actor that built the first […]
Microsoft Inches Past Google to Become the Third Most Valuable Company
Microsoft has now officially become the third most valuable company in the world as it pushes Google’s parent company Alphabet into fourth place. With Microsoft’s current market cap at 766.8 billion compared to Alphabet’s 766.5 billion, Microsoft is able to retain the third place spot using market prices at the time of this writing. With Apple, […]