Microsoft on Friday said it’s investigating an incident wherein a driver signed by the company turned out to be a malicious Windows rootkit that was observed communicating with command-and-control (C2) …
Microsoft Edge Bug Could’ve Let Hackers Steal Your Secrets for Any Site
Microsoft last week rolled out updates for the Edge browser with fixes for two security issues, one of which concerns a security bypass vulnerability that could be exploited to inject and …
DMARC: The First Line of Defense Against Ransomware
There has been a lot of buzz in the industry about ransomware lately. Almost every other day, it’s making headlines. With businesses across the globe holding their breath, scared they …
Cisco ASA Flaw Under Active Attack After PoC Exploit Posted Online
A security vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) that was addressed by the company last October and again earlier this April, has been subjected to active in-the-wild attacks following …
SolarWinds Hackers Breach Microsoft Customer Support to Target its Customers
In yet another sign that the Russian hackers who breached SolarWinds network monitoring software to compromise a slew of entities never really went away, Microsoft said the threat actor behind …
Google Extends Support for Tracking Party Cookies Until 2023
Google’s sweeping proposals to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome browser is going back to the drawing board after the company announced plans to delay the rollout from early 2022 to …
Watch Out! Zyxel Firewalls and VPNs Under Active Cyberattack
Taiwanese networking equipment company Zyxel is warning customers of an ongoing attack targeting a “small subset” of its security products such as firewall and VPN servers. Attributing the attacks to …
Crackonosh virus mined $2 million of Monero from 222,000 hacked computers
A previously undocumented Windows malware has infected over 222,000 systems worldwide since at least June 2018, yielding its developer no less than 9,000 Moneros ($2 million) in illegal profits. Dubbed …
FIN7 Supervisor Gets 7-Year Jail Term for Stealing Millions of Credit Cards
A Ukrainian national and a mid-level supervisor of the hacking group known as FIN7 has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role as a “pen tester” and …
BIOS Disconnect: New High-Severity Bugs Affect 128 Dell PC and Tablet Models
Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed a chain of vulnerabilities affecting the BIOSConnect feature within Dell Client BIOS that could be abused by a privileged network adversary to gain arbitrary code …
