Helping to define and examine the top perceived cloud security threats of the day, the ‘Egregious Eleven’ is the most recent iteration in an evolving set of summary reports published by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). It follows on from the ‘Treacherous Twelve,’ which they defined for us in 2016, and the ‘Notorious Nine,’ which they presented in...

Tripwire's October 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Oracle, Linux Kernel and Adobe. Exploit Alert: Metasploit First on the patch priority list this month are vulnerabilities that have been recently add to Metasploit. CVE-2019-13272 is a Linux kernel vulnerability; proof-of-concept code...

A Texas man has been sentenced to over 12 years in prison after being found guilty of hacking into the computer system of the Los Angeles Superior Court and then using it to send two million phishing emails. Thirty-three-year-old Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba, of Katy, Texas, received a 145 month federal prison sentence for an attack which ultimately saw...

Kalispell Regional Healthcare (KPH) revealed that a phishing attack might have exposed patients' personally identifiable information (PII). Over the summer of 2019, KPH learned that several employees unknowingly handed their business email account credentials over to malicious actors after falling...

Unsurprisingly, cyber attacks are growing in the business sector and not just in the United States but world-wide. Cyber-attacks represent the greatest risk in six out of ten of the top economies in the world. The report presented by the World Economic Forum discusses formjacking, cryptojacking, ransomware like LockerGoga and other cyber-attacks of...

Researchers discovered a new cryptojacking worm called "Graboid" that has spread to more than 2,000 unsecured Docker hosts. In its research, Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 team noted that it's the first time it's discovered a cryptojacking worm specifically using containers in the Docker Engine for distribution. (It's not the first time that...

You can’t go a week without seeing a story about a data breach or ransomware hitting organizations. These breaches can be very costly, but they still continue to show up. Are the good guys not winning the cybersecurity war? Organizations invest millions of dollars in security products and services, but they keep getting breached. We definitely have...

The calculus for disaster recovery and risk management is changing. Most small businesses within the past decade would often keep many of their critical technology assets locally, perhaps in a server closet, or a centralized data center for multiple offices. They built their own “vault” of applications, databases, email, files, etc., often on a few...

Digital fraudsters are using compromised servers and bogus links in an ongoing effort to target LinkedIn members with scams. The scam began when a Sophos employee received what it appeared to be an unexceptional email from someone they know in real life and with whom they keep in touch on LinkedIn. The body of the LinkedIn message informed the...

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the popular iTerm2 application, an open source terminal emulator program designed to replace the default Apple Terminal in macOS. iTerm2 often finds its way into lists of some of the best software to install on a Mac. It is especially popular with power...

A new sextortion scam variant is using a wallet for a cryptocurrency other than bitcoin in an attempt to evade detection. On October 8, Cofense revealed it had detected a modified sextortion scam that was using a wallet address for Litecoin instead of bitcoin. The variant thereby differentiated...

Instagram announced the release of a new feature that's designed to help its users identify phishing emails impersonating the social media platform. On October 7, Instagram tweeted out about the new capability and said that users can leverage it to verify whether an email claiming to originate from the social network is legitimate. https://twitter...

The developer of HildaCrypt has released the master decryption keys that would allow potential victims of the ransomware to recover their data for free. On October 4, a security researcher who goes by the name "GrujaRS" posted about the discovery of a new variant of STOP, a well-known ransomware family. https://twitter.com/GrujaRS/status...

The Collection tactic outlines techniques an attacker will undertake in order to find and gather the data they need to meet their actions on objectives. I see most of these techniques as being useful for describing what a piece of malware or threat actor is up to rather than looking to them for guidance on how to mitigate and detect their actions....

British low-cost airline group easyJet revealed that an hacking incident had exposed approximately nine million customers' information. On May 19, easyJet issued a "Notice of cyber security incident" in which it revealed that it had fallen victim to a digital attack from a "highly sophisticated...

Newly-discovered zero-day vulnerabilities may generate the biggest headlines in the security press, but that doesn't mean that they're necessarily the thing that will get your company hacked. This week, US-CERT has published its list of what it describes as the "Top 10 Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities" for the last three years. The list is...

It will be rare that an attacker exploits a single system and does not attempt any lateral movement within the network. Even ransomware that typically targets a single system at a time has attempted to spread across the network looking for other victims. More often than not, an attacker will gain an initial foothold and start to pivot across systems...

This new world is putting a strain on organizations’ digital security defenses. First, malicious actors are increasingly leveraging coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) as a theme to target organizations and to prey upon the fears of their employees. Our weekly COVID-19 scam roundups have made this reality clear. Second, organizations are working to mitigate...

Digital attacks continue to exploit coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) as part of their malicious operations. On May 5, 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) along with the United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a joint alert in which they revealed that they had...

Samsung has released a security update for its popular Android smartphones which includes a critical fix for a vulnerability that affects all devices sold by the manufacturer since 2014. On its Android security update page Samsung thanks researcher Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero for the discovery of the vulnerability that could - he claims -...