US Sanctions Russia and Expels 10 Diplomats Over SolarWinds Cyberattack

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The U.S. and U.K. on Thursday formally attributed the supply chain attack of IT infrastructure management company SolarWinds with “high confidence” to government operatives working for Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). “Russia’s pattern of malign behaviour around the world – …

1-Click Hack Found in Popular Desktop Apps — Check If You’re Using Them

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Multiple one-click vulnerabilities have been discovered across a variety of popular software applications, allowing an attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code on target systems. The issues were discovered by Positive Security researchers Fabian Bräunlein and Lukas Euler and affect apps …

Malware Variants: More Sophisticated, Prevalent and Evolving in 2021

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A malicious program intended to cause havoc with IT systems—malware—is becoming more and more sophisticated every year. The year 2021 is no exception, as recent trends indicate that several new variants of malware are making their way into the world of cybersecurity. …

YIKES! Hackers flood the web with 100,000 pages offering malicious PDFs

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Cybercriminals are resorting to search engine poisoning techniques to lure business professionals into seemingly legitimate Google sites that install a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) capable of carrying out a wide range of attacks. The attack works by leveraging searches for …

New WhatsApp Bugs Could’ve Let Attackers Hack Your Phone Remotely

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Facebook-owned WhatsApp recently addressed two security vulnerabilities in its messaging app for Android that could have been exploited to execute malicious code remotely on the device and even compromise encrypted communications. The flaws take aim at devices running Android versions …

New JavaScript Exploit Can Now Carry Out DDR4 Rowhammer Attacks

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Academics from Vrije University in Amsterdam and ETH Zurich have published a new research paper describing yet another variation of the Rowhammer attack. Dubbed SMASH (Synchronized MAny-Sided Hammering), the technique can be used to successfully trigger the attack from JavaScript on modern …

Simplify, then Add Lightness – Consolidating the Technology to Better Defend Ourselves

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One of the biggest consequences of the rapidly evolving cybersecurity threat landscape is that defenses must constantly build bigger systems to defend themselves.  This leads to both more complex systems and often less communication between them. More importantly, it can …

2 New Chrome 0-Days Under Attack — Update Your Browser ASAP!

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Google on Tuesday released a new version of Chrome web-browsing software for Windows, Mac, and Linux with fixes for two security vulnerabilities, both of which it says are under active exploitation. One of the two flaws concerns an insufficient validation …

NSA Discovers New Vulnerabilities Affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers

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In its April slate of patches, Microsoft rolled out fixes for a total of 114 security flaws, including an actively exploited zero-day and four remote code execution bugs in Exchange Server. Of the 114 flaws, 19 are rated as Critical, 88 are …

New NAME:WRECK Vulnerabilities Impact Nearly 100 Million IoT Devices

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Security researchers have uncovered nine vulnerabilities affecting four TCP/IP stacks impacting more than 100 million consumer and enterprise devices that could be exploited by an attacker to take control of a vulnerable system. Dubbed “NAME:WRECK” by Forescout and JSOF, the …