Bad news if you’re one of the hundreds of millions of online banking users around the world. The chances are your bank’s website and web apps are horribly insecure. Researchers at security firm Positive Technologies, which has a commercial stake in securing web apps, tested 33 websites and services using its […]
Talos experts found many high severity flaws in Moxa EDR-810 industrial routers
Security experts at Cisco’s Talos group have discovered a total of 17 vulnerabilities in Moxa EDR-810 industrial routers manufactured by Moxa. The Moxa EDR-810 is an integrated industrial multiport router that implements firewall, NAT, VPN and managed Layer 2 switch capabilities. These devices are used in industrial environments to protect systems such […]
Gootkit banking Trojan continues to be delivered via fake invoices via Mailgun SMTP relay service and Microsoft one drive for business
Gootkit banking trojan is still being distributed via the Mailgun SMTP sending service, using Microsoft’s One drive business file hosting service to deliver the malicious macro enabled word docs that in turn download the gootkit banking trojan payload from another site. These use compromised mail accounts or websites to relay […]
New malware strikes panic among B’luru bank customers
The bankers in Bengaluru claimed to have discovered a new malware that helps the hackers siphon off money from a number of bank accounts forcing the southern city policemen to probe a number of complaints they received from the affected account holders. The policemen probing the cyber crime initially talk […]
Intel SPI Flash Flaw Lets Attackers Alter or Delete BIOS/UEFI Firmware
Intel has addressed a vulnerability in the configuration of several CPU series that allow an attacker to alter the behavior of the chip’s SPI Flash memory —a mandatory component used during the boot-up process . According to Lenovo, who recently deployed the Intel fixes, « the configuration of the system firmware […]
Cost of City of Atlanta’s cyber attack: $2.7 million — and rising
The City of Atlanta entered into emergency contracts worth $2.7 million to help restore the city’s computer network in the days following the March 22 ransomware cyber attack. But despite hiring a stable of security consultants and crisis communications experts, some departments remain hobbled by an attack that occurred after years […]
TrueMove H, the biggest 4G mobile operator in Thailand suffered a data leak
TrueMove H, the biggest 4G mobile operator in Thailand suffered a data leak, 46000 people’s data store on an AWS bucked were left on accessible online, including driving licenses and passports. Let’s speak about a new data breach, this time the victim is TrueMove H, the biggest 4G mobile operator in […]
Experts warn threat actors are scanning the web for Drupal installs vulnerable to Drupalgeddon2
After the publication of a working Proof-Of-Concept for Drupalgeddon2 on GitHub for “educational or information purposes,” experts started observing bad actors attempting to exploit the flaw. At the end of March, the Drupal Security Team confirmed that a “highly critical” vulnerability (dubbed Drupalgeddon2), tracked as CVE-2018-7600, was affecting Drupal 7 and 8 core and announced the […]
UK GCHQ director confirmed major cyberattack on Islamic State
GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming announced this week that the U.K. has launched a major cyberattack on the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization. According to the spy chief, the GCHQ the attack was launched in collaboration with the U.K. Ministry of Defence and has distributed operations of the Islamic State. The UK intelligence […]
Microsoft engineer charged with money laundering linked to Reveton ransomware
The Microsoft network engineer Raymond Uadiale (41) is facing federal charges in Florida for the alleged involvement in Reveton Ransomware case. The man is suspected to have had a role in helping launder money obtained from victims of the Reventon ransomware. Uadiale currently works at Microsoft site in Seattle since 2014, […]