Intel may be facing as many as eight new Spectre-level vulnerabilities in its chips, a new report alleges. The report comes months after the Spectre and Meltdown flaws first rocked the silicon industry in early 2018. German magazine c’t reported on Thursday that the new security flaws in Intel CPUs have been […]
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A pair of Romanian hackers have been extradited to the U.S. after allegedly bilking unwitting victims out of more than $18 million in an elaborate voice- and SMS-phishing (i.e., vishing/smishing) scheme. Teodor Laurentiu Costea and Robert Codrut Dumitrescu were named in the 31-count federal grand jury indictment on August 16 […]
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Even though many cyber-attacks inevitably succeed the Bank Of Canada is looking to reduce their risk. They have recovery mechanisms in place to limit as much damage as possible and get the financial system back up and running, as claimed by the central bank on Wednesday. Chief Operating Officer Filipe Dinis, said […]
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Lenovo has released security patches that address the High severity vulnerability CVE-2017-3775 in the Secure Boot function on some System x servers. The standard operator configurations disable signature checking, this means that some Server x BIOS/UEFI versions do not properly authenticate signed code before booting it. “Lenovo internal testing discovered some System x […]
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The infamous outbreak may no longer be causing mayhem worldwide but the threat that enabled it is still very much alive and posing a major threat to unpatched and unprotected systems It’s been a year since the WannaCryptor.D ransomware (aka WannaCry and WCrypt) caused one of the largest cyber-disruptions the world has […]
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Hacker Kevin Mitnick demonstrates a phishing attack designed to abuse multi-factor authentication and take over targets’ accounts. Businesses and consumers around the world are encouraged to adopt two-factor authentication as a means of strengthening login security. But 2FA isn’t ironclad: attackers are finding ways to circumvent the common best practice. […]
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Security experts at Flashpoint confirmed the availability online for the source code of the TreasureHunter PoS malware since March. The researchers found evidence that the threat has been around since at least late 2014. TreasureHunt was first discovered by researchers at the SANS Institute who noticed the malware generating mutex names to evade detection. TreasureHunt enumerates the […]
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A new malware campaign rapidly spreading via Facebook is infecting victims’ systems to steal their social media credentials and download cryptomining code. The malware, dubbed Nigelthorn by the Radware researchers who first discovered it, is being propagated via socially engineered links on Facebook. It has been active since at least […]
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A Brazilian ISP appears to have deployed routers without a Telnet password for nearly 5,000 customers, leaving the devices wide open to abuse. The devices have been discovered this week by Ankit Anubhav, Principal Researcher at NewSky Security, a cyber-security company specialized in IoT security. All exposed devices are Datacom routers the […]
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IBM has allegedly issued a worldwide ban against the the use of removable drives, including Flash, USB, and SD cards, to transfer data. This new policy is being instituted to prevent confidential and sensitive information from being leaked due to misplaced or unsecured storage devices. According to a report by TheRegister, […]
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