The pressure on small to medium-sized enterprises to protect their organizations against cyberthreats is astronomical. These businesses face the same threats as the largest enterprises, experience the same (relative) damages …
Authorities Seize Dark-Web Site Linked to the Netwalker Ransomware
U.S. and Bulgarian authorities this week took control of the dark web site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims. “We are striking …
European Authorities Disrupt Emotet — World’s Most Dangerous Malware
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
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
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 …
Top Cyber Attacks of 2020
With so much of the world transitioning to working, shopping, studying, and streaming online during the coronavirus pandemic, cybercriminals now have access to a larger base of potential victims than …
New Attack Could Let Remote Hackers Target Devices On Internal Networks
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
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 …
Apple Warns of 3 iOS Zero-Day Security Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
Apple on Tuesday released updates for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS with fixes for three security vulnerabilities that it says may have been actively exploited in the wild. Reported by an …
Targeted Phishing Attacks Strike High-Ranking Company Executives
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 …