Do You Have Ransomware Insurance? Look at the Fine Print

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Insurance exists to protect the insured party against catastrophe, but the insurer needs protection so that its policies are not abused – and that’s where the fine print comes in. However, in the case of ransomware insurance, the fine print …

Google Researchers Detail 5-Year-Old Apple Safari Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

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Ravie Lakshmanan A security flaw in Apple Safari that was exploited in the wild earlier this year was originally fixed in 2013 and reintroduced in December 2016, according to a new report from Google Project Zero. The issue, tracked as …

BRATA Android Malware Gains Advanced Mobile Threat Capabilities

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Ravie Lakshmanan The operators behind BRATA have once again added more capabilities to the Android mobile malware in an attempt to make their attacks against financial apps more stealthy. “In fact, the modus operandi now fits into an Advanced Persistent …

Over a Dozen Flaws Found in Siemens’ Industrial Network Management System

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Ravie Lakshmanan Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about 15 security flaws in Siemens SINEC network management system (NMS), some of which could be chained by an attacker to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. “The vulnerabilities, if exploited, pose …

Authorities Shut Down Russian RSOCKS Botnet That Hacked Millions of Devices

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Ravie Lakshmanan The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday disclosed that it took down the infrastructure associated with a Russian botnet known as RSOCKS in collaboration with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K. The botnet, …

Atlassian Confluence Flaw Being Used to Deploy Ransomware and Crypto Miners

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A recently patched critical security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center products is being actively weaponized in real-world attacks to drop cryptocurrency miners and ransomware payloads. In at least two of the Windows-related incidents observed by cybersecurity vendor …

Researchers Uncover ‘Hermit’ Android Spyware Used in Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy

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An enterprise-grade surveillanceware dubbed Hermit has been put to use by entities operating from within Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy over the years since 2019, new research has revealed. Lookout attributed the spy software, which is equipped to target both Android …

MaliBot: A New Android Banking Trojan Spotted in the Wild

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A new strain of Android malware has been spotted in the wild targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy, just weeks after a coordinated law enforcement operation dismantled FluBot. The information stealing trojan, codenamed MaliBot by …

Critical Flaw in Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Lets Attackers Bypass Authentication

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Ravie Lakshmanan Cisco on Wednesday rolled out fixes to address a critical security flaw affecting Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Secure Email and Web Manager that could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to sidestep authentication. Assigned the CVE …

New Hertzbleed Side Channel Attack Affects All Modern AMD and Intel CPUs

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Ravie Lakshmanan A newly discovered security vulnerability in modern Intel and AMD processors could let remote attackers steal encryption keys via a power side channel attack. Dubbed Hertzbleed by a group of researchers from the University of Texas, the University …