European Authorities Disrupt Emotet — World’s Most Dangerous Malware

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Law enforcement agencies from as many as eight countries dismantled the infrastructure of Emotet, a notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks over the past …

New Docker Container Escape Bug Affects Microsoft Azure Functions

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Cybersecurity researcher Paul Litvak today disclosed an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Functions that could be used by an attacker to escalate privileges and escape the Docker container used for hosting …

Warning Issued Over Hackable ADT’s LifeShield Home Security Cameras

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Newly discovered security vulnerabilities in ADT’s Blue (formerly LifeShield) home security cameras could have been exploited to hijack both audio and video streams. The vulnerabilities (tracked as CVE-2020-8101) were identified in the …

New Attack Could Let Remote Hackers Target Devices On Internal Networks

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A newly devised variant of the NAT Slipstreaming attack can be leveraged to compromise and expose any device in an internal network, according to the latest research. Detailed by enterprise IoT security …

Using the Manager Attribute in Active Directory (AD) for Password Resets

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Creating workflows around verifying password resets can be challenging for organizations, especially since many have shifted work due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. With the numbers of cyberattacks against businesses …

Targeted Phishing Attacks Strike High-Ranking Company Executives

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An evolving phishing campaign observed at least since May 2020 has been found to target high-ranking company executives across manufacturing, real estate, finance, government, and technological sectors with the goal …

TikTok Bug Could Have Exposed Users’ Profile Data and Phone Numbers

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Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed a now-patched security flaw in TikTok that could have potentially enabled an attacker to build a database of the app’s users and their associated phone …