A new Android banking trojan has been found, targeting international banks from the United Kingdom and Italy (including in the U.S.). and five different cryptocurrency services. Twenty-two instances have been discovered, but more are expected. The malware, first detected at the end of October 2021, appears to be new and still being developed. It was ..
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Web security services provider Cloudflare says it mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at almost 2 terabytes per second (Tbps). The multi-vector assault was launched by a botnet of approximately 15,000 machines infected with a variant of the original Mirai malware. The bots included Internet of Things (IoT) devices and GitLab instances, Cloudflare ..
Chipmakers Intel and AMD this week released patches for multiple security vulnerabilities in a wide range of product lines, including fixes for a series of high-risk issues in software drivers. AMD published three bulletins this week documenting at least 27 security problems in the AMD Graphics Driver for Windows 10. Exploitation of these flaws could ..
The NSA and the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday released the first in a series of guidance documents for securing 5G cloud infrastructure. The guidance comes from the Enduring Security Framework (ESF), a public-private partnership between the NSA, CISA, the Defense Department, the intelligence community, as well as IT, communications, and ..
India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered an independent investigation into the alleged government use of Pegasus spyware on journalists, opposition politicians and activists with the chief justice calling the implications “Orwellian”. India was one of 45 countries where tens of thousands of numbers were targeted by the spyware made by Israeli firm NSO, according to ..
The Linux Foundation has secured a new $10 million investment that will help expand and support the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). The funding will help OpenSSF focus on identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities in open source software, thus securing the software supply chain. The foundation is also working on the development of best practices, ..
Technology giants Intel Corp. and VMWare joined the Patch Tuesday parade this week, rolling out fixes for security defects that expose users to malicious hacker attacks. Intel released two advisories to fix privilege escalation and information disclosure vulnerabilities in the SGX software development kit and Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM) software products. The more serious ..
A threat group is distributing the little-known Sarwent Trojan via a fake website that impersonates Amnesty International and claims to deliver protection against the Pegasus mobile malware. According to security researchers at Cisco Talos, the attack targets individuals who believe they might have been targeted by the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware and might be associated with ..
Endpoint security platform Kolide on Thursday announced that it has raised $17 million in Series B funding, for a total of $27 million raised to date. The funding round was led by Boston-based venture capital OpenView Partners. Matrix Partners, who led Kolide’s Series A, also invested in the new round. Kolide sells a Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) ..
Google this week introduced a new suite of services designed to improve privacy in the Android operating system. The new features add to the previously introduced Private Compute Core in Android 12 beta, an open source, secure environment designed to be completely isolated from the Android platform itself, as well as from other applications. For ..