reader comments 41 with 31 posters participating, including story author Share this story The list of services with Internet-facing infrastructure that is vulnerable to a critical zero-day vulnerability in the open source Log4j logging utility is immense and reads like a who’s who of the biggest names on the Internet, including Apple, Amazon, Cloudflare, Steam, ..
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Getty Images reader comments 16 with 13 posters participating Share this story As many as 300,000 routers made by Latvia-based MikroTik are vulnerable to remote attacks that can surreptitiously corral the devices into botnets that steal sensitive user data and participate in Internet-crippling DDoS attacks, researchers said. The estimate, made by researchers at security firm ..
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 ..
Fears of software supply chain attacks escalated again this week with a new warning from Microsoft that it has caught Iranian threat actors breaking into IT services shops in India and Israel and using that access to hit the real targets. Two of Redmond’s premier threat hunting units — the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) ..
Microsoft says it has observed an increase in the use of HTML smuggling in malicious attacks distributing remote access Trojans (RATs), banking malware, and other malicious payloads. HTML smuggling leverages HTML5/JavaScript for the download of files onto a victim machine, which in this case of these attacks is an encoded malicious script designed to assemble ..
Security researchers with Positive Technologies have published information on a couple of vulnerabilities in Diebold Nixdorf ATMs that could have allowed for an attacker to replace the firmware on the system and withdraw cash. Tracked as CVE-2018-9099 and CVE-2018-9100, the flaws were identified in the CMD-V5 and RM3/CRS dispensers – one in each device – ..
Researchers Warn DDS Protocol Can Be Abused for Lateral Movement and Malware C&C Researchers have shown that a widely used protocol named Data Distribution Service (DDS) is affected by vulnerabilities that could be exploited by threat actors for various purposes. Maintained by the standards development organization Object Management Group (OMG), DDS is a middleware protocol ..
Thousands of fake emails coming from an FBI email address were sent out on Friday by someone who exploited a vulnerability in a law enforcement portal. The FBI has confirmed the breach, but said impact was limited. Threat intelligence organization Spamhaus reported seeing more than 100,000 fake emails being sent out in two waves. The ..
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 ..
A newly discovered Golang-based malware is using over 30 exploits in attacks, potentially putting millions of routers and Internet of Things (IoT) at risk of malware infection, according to a warning from AT&T Alien Labs. Dubbed BotenaGo, the threat deploys a backdoor on the compromised device, and then waits for commands – either from a ..
